Vientiane Day 59. The Day an ugly gadget saved my phone
Everytime I looked at my old Motorola phone, it reminded me that somewhere in the 'effin Malaysia someone is using my stolen Samsung Galaxy that I originally bought to replace the Motorola. I use the Motorola phone for my Lao number and BB for Singapore number.
And for the past 1 week the Motorola phone was dead.The charger just decided to stop charging and left my battery flat. I searched for new charger in phone shops which still open after office hours. A fancy phone shop even promised to search for the charger during his trip to Bangkok last weekend. Well,talk only.No action.
I went to the great "Talat Sao" today. An equivalent to Jakarta's ITC Ambassador but much smaller. In one small non-pretentious phone stall, among kitchen appliances, a lady offered me an electric mouse trap-like gadget, with instructions written in Chinese.
She took out my battery and place it on the mouse trap. It has transparent clip with double thin pins. The lady placed my battery so the two pins touched the small copper surface where battery power is transmitted. The mouse trap then connected to electrical power point. And poof, my battery which was diagnosed dead in a fancy shop, came back from its long sleep.
I love the Chinese mind behind this universal charger. They realized that charging was really transferring electrical power through the copper surface - so that's all you need. Screw the fancy, expensive charger with different point shapes, sizes, color. With this mouse trap, you can recharge all your battery for the price of $3.
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