BlackBerry 9700 Charging Pod

Tiny and uncomplicated this cradle takes up very little space and looks like a quality piece of kit. Colour is a tasteful gunmetal grey and there is a Blackberry logo on the rear just above the micro usb socket. Inside is smooth jet black and underside is rubberised to prevent slip. Just use a standard usb charger cable or your phone charger cable to start charging. The 9700 sits snuggly in the craddle with little movement. The pins on the bottom right and left sides of your phone rest against the contacts in the charger base. Once the phone is in the craddle a subtle bluish light switches on to confirm its charging. As with a normal charger the phone enters bedside mode when in the craddle. This makes it a great bedside clock when you change bedside settings in your phone software to dim the LED and turn the cell radio off.In summary a well made and stylish device which makes charging much easier than using the phones micro usb port. Couple that with the attractive bedside or desk clock and you have a great little gadget that looks far more expensive than its actual cost.

It is genuinely ok. it is a great place to stand your phone on your desk, however it doesn't always connect the phone to the chasrger

I recently purchased this product after seeing it on frequently purchased together. I can understand why! This item is great, it provides the function it's meant to very well. Although it does not come with a power lead this is understandable because you simply use the charger that came with the phone! I thought that the phone would clip in and out then becoming a pain but the phone slides in to the dock very easily without scratching the phone and when you need to use the device it comes straight out. You don't have to touch the dock or anything because it is weighted just right. It also comes with a little light on the top of the dock which is very very dim but bright enough to allow you to dock the phone in the pitch black. The charging time for the phone is the same as if you use the wire directly in. I decided to purchase this as I was getting through many charges official and generic. They just stopped working unless I held the charger in a certain place and it was costing me a fortune! This product solved it all for under £5. The papers which come with the product seem to make the product seem genuine, you may be put off by the small size of the product and thinking is it worth it? At first I thought that until I started using it, I don't know why I went so long without one!I have recommended these to all of my friends and family!Thanks for reading my review!

I absolutely love this thing!I can no longer charge my phone via the charging lead, as unfortunately the metal charger piece come out when i pulled the charger out one day!So i decided to buy this as an alternative.This little pod saved my blackberry! Its nice and small, and i have absolutely nothing negative to say about it - it does its job! Its good value too!I definitely reccommend it to all blackberry users, it could prevent what happened to my blackberry happening to yours :)It came within 2 days of ordering it too :)

I had recently upgraded my phone to a Blackberry and we managed to get an additonal BB for my good lady, so I was looking for an easy charger and somewhere to safely put our phones at night so we always knew where they were the next morning!!I bought 2 of these chargers and they are both brilliant! Only very small, very well packaged and they have a small light on the charger so when one of us comes to bed later than the other, we can find the chargers in the dark!!Every Blackberry user should get one of these - the designs are really good too!!Highly recommended!!Blackberry 9700 Charging Pod

This simply gets connected to your existing charger cable and you slot the phone in for charging. It's very small and neat and allows you to use the phone as a clock, which automatically comes on when the phone is inserted. You can then use the menu button to dim the keypad to make it less obtrusive in the dark.It seems to be a genuine Blackberry accessory from the instructions, but it's not shown on the Blackberry website, so who knows. It doesn't really matter, as it's cheap and very useful. Thumbs up.One thing to be aware of is that you can't use this with the Otterbox protective phone cover, or probably any other cheap skin, as the connectors in the bottom corners will be covered by the case. I didn't realise that when I bought the two together, which means that the two phones I have with cases can't actually use this unless you go to the bother of taking the case off. However, my wife's phone doesn't have a case and she uses this charger all the time, even on trips.Update 13/10/10 - we've stopped using this now, because my wife's phone (the only one using it) started to freeze with only the red light on. It was very difficult to restart and we reckon it was something to do with the charger draining the phone and knackering it, maybe depending on how it was sitting and connected. The phone's fine now we don't use the charger.

I cannot believe how useful this little gadget is. It is plugged in next to my bed and it is so easy & convenient to just pop my Bold 9700 in the pod each bedtime so that it is charged up and ready to go the next morning. I love the dim clock face and use it as my alarm clock now. I put my phone into bedside mode so that I do not get disturbed by alerts in the night. Great value for money and would highly recommend it to all Bold 9700 users.

Gives somewhere for my phone to sit