Before a recent 3,000 car trip, I forgot to order a 12-volt car charger for my Nokia N97. Fortunately, I did have a 120-volt Nokia N97 charger in my laptop bag, and had a 12-volt to 120-volt converter for my netbook, so I was able to get by. [Finding a Nokia N97 charger, with the almost proprietary USB style connector at Radio Shack or Walmart is not going to happen].When I returned from the trip, I ordered a "no name" aftermarket 12-volt charger for the phone. It turned out to be unreliable. That was a wasted $7.
I went back to Amazon, and bought this official Nokia charger for about $10 more than the aftermarket chargers. I was kicking myself for initially "saving" $10 for a no-name charger for my very expensive phone. What if it had damaged the phone? I had spent a lot of money for a very high end phone, and then risked killing it by using a $10 cheaper charger. Where's the logic in that? Why risk your $600 phone by using a $7 charger, when the official Nokia charger is just $10 more. D'oh!
This charger works as it should. It charges the phone quickly, doesn't do anything weird to the car radio, and doesn't get hot. The peace of mind, knowing that it isn't likely to damage the phone, or start a fire in the car, is worth far more than the extra $10 cost. I wouldn't know about doing a technical review of this charger. Somewhere, I read that there's a microchip logic in the charger. If so, that could have been the problem with the cheap charger. This one works very well, doing what it's supposed to do. I didn't give it 5 stars because Nokia is almost certainly overcharging...(Get it? Overcharging?)for this item.
But now that I have the charger it seems to do it's job brilliantly. Perhaps not as fast as the wall charger that comes with the phone but no slouch either.
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