Case-Mate's Fuel holsters keep extra battery juice on tap

The two unavoidable truths of your phone are that you've got to carry it and you've got to charge it, so why not unite those concepts in blissful matrimony? Case-Mate's new Fuel line of holsters have batteries on board that can keep your phone charged simply by snapping it in place as you would with any other belt-clip holder, so it's a nice value-add without much downside -- and there's a power toggle on the Fuel to prevent it from doing it's thing if you want to save the juice for later. Models are available for the BlackBerry Bold and iPhone 3G currently, providing up to a claimed 7 or 9 extra hours of talk time, respectively. They're $80 a pop, but then again, that's no more than a Mophie Juice Pack Air -- so if you need insane stamina, pick your poison.

[(Unverified) Posted May 22nd 2009 9:14AM]

I'd love to know why they decided to make the version for the Blackberry "screen in" but chose to make the one for the iPhone 3G "screen out".

Who in their right mind would carry their iphone on their hip, in a holster, with the screen facing out completely unprotected?

Seems like a total FAIL to me.

[(Unverified) Posted May 22nd 2009 10:12AM]

Probably so you can continue to talk while its in the holster..
My guess is that they didn't do that on the Bold so that you can put it to sleep once its in.

[(Unverified) Posted May 22nd 2009 5:12PM]

I think its an awesome and about time kind of holster if you ask me. only took about 5 times as long to come out as it should have. other then that i give it 2 thumbs up.