Motorola 900 mAh Lithium-Ion Extended Battery for Motorola StarTAC Phones

by Motorola

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.6 x 2 x 0.5 inches ; 1.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 11 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00004W77X
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #267,711 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Customer Reviews

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Almost Required Accessory, December 19, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Motorola 900 mAh Lithium-Ion Extended Battery for Motorola StarTAC Phones (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I have a StarTAC ST7797 and am a "road-warrior". The battery that came with my phone was adequate. Note the word adequate. I had to constantly keep the StarTAC on charge because of my heavy usage. This battery is an excellent back-up and it is definitely stylish. Great for business and personal use! It fits better with my Neoprene Body Glove; another great indispensible product. I highly recommend this to everyone; I have not had any flaws with this baby. Motorola, delivers again.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You should have at least two of these for your StarTAC, September 8, 2001

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Conrad B. Senior (Easton, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Motorola 900 mAh Lithium-Ion Extended Battery for Motorola StarTAC Phones (Wireless Phone Accessory)

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If you have a StarTAC then you have this battery already. My cell-phone calling plan includes 3000 minutes of Nights and Weekends with free Long Distance. So I use it in the evenings to call my long distance friends. I have now come to depend on this phone for most of my calling.

I think the StarTAC is a near perfect phone. My only regret is that it does not support two way messaging--it can receive text messages but not send them.

The good thing is the batteries seem to have been standardized and fit a variety of StarTAC phones. So if you invest in a lot of batteries, chances are good you can reuse them if you upgrade the phone later. At least you can sell them to someone who can use them and recoup some of your expenses.

There is a car adapter, which can plug into a cigarette lighter adapter. I decided I had to have the desktop charger, and then given the choice of more batteries or a cigarette adapter, I chose to buy extra batteries.

I especially like the slim battery, which goes for about $30. This makes the phone about double the size of a numeric pager. Now that is pocket sized! I slip it in my pocket when I dress up and use the belt holster for every day use.

I find the bigger battery adds enough bulk to the phone that I don't find it comfortable in my pocket, and always use the belt holster with the larger battery. This battery is the largest the belt holster will hold.

Although the standby time supposedly will last a week, talk time drains it such that I need to recharge almost daily.

So the truth is you need at least two of these extra capacity batteries, maybe more, if you use this phone as your primary phone. There is an even bigger battery for the StarTAC made by another vendor, but this will not fit in the included holster for the phone so I never considered it. I think it sticks out too far and takes away from the looks of the phone.

I have two slim batteries, two of these batteries and a generic desk charger. The generic desk charger comes with an extra cord, which the Motorola desk charger does not include. The Motorola desk charger requires that you use the "Plug in the Phone" charger cable to connect to the desk charger. So, since the generic desk charger includes this extra cable, this is the way to go since it doubles the number of chargers you have. You can keep the compact "plug in the phone" charger at work and the generic desk charger at home to charge two batteries at night while you sleep. Also the desktop charger will charge a battery without having the phone in the cradle.

So if you have three dead batteries, you can charge two at night, and pop the third in the cradle in the morning.

If you have the desktop charger, then it is well worth the investment to purchase one or more of these extra capacity batteries.

The StarTAC is a great phone. It is not perfect, but I find it suits my primary need of being small enough to carry everywhere. I am considering purchasing a StarTAC for my girlfriend and more of these extra capacity batteries in the future. I think 6 batteries would be great. It would be even better if we could share them between two phones.

If you like the slim good looks of the smaller battery, consider buying several of those instead. At $30 you can afford to buy three for less than the price of two large batteries.

Definitely get the desktop charger.

Conrad B. Senior

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Used Product - Technically, no stars, February 23, 2004

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Nutkrakker (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Motorola 900 mAh Lithium-Ion Extended Battery for Motorola StarTAC Phones (Wireless Phone Accessory)

Was sent a used battery which was in worse condition than the 3 year old battery I own. Clip was so limp the battery wouldn't stay in the phone. The back was scratched, the product code was markered over and a date stamp was pasted over the back. If they had indicated they were sending refurbished product I wouldn't have ordered it.