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 2600MAH Lithium Battery Review
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Written by Brakken
March 2006
Introduction
Alright, here is my comparison here of the Max PSP replacement battery for Sony’s handheld video gaming
console the PSP. Yeah, an entire review of a little rectangular object that fits in the back of your
console sounds like something great to read about – doesn’t it? Well, the battery is one of the most
important parts of your system if you’re taking it on the road and everyone needs a battery that lasts
a long time, right?
The battery, like most hardware Sony puts into their systems is lacking playtime – and badly. The Max
battery is supposed to outlast the original one and let you get more time out of each charge.
The heart of the PSP is its Lithium-Ion battery. Lithium batteries themselves have around a 300-500
de/recharge time. This means you’ll be able to recharge your PSP around 500 times before you will
need to replace its battery. For the most part, you should not let the battery fully discharge as
this will contribute to even lower its recharge lifetime. Additionally, if you keep the PSP in
rather hot environment (like a car in the summertime) this will contribute to it loosing its
charging capability decreasing the amount of time you’ll be able to use it. For more information
on how you should handle and take care of your battery so it will last long and now blow up and
scar you for life check out WikiPedia’s article about them.
I’m going to review how long each battery lasts under certain conditions and then present my results
to you in some of those nifty looking percentage tables! Yay! Most people will be looking for three
things when using their PSP – Music, Movies and Video Games. So these are the three tests I’ll
be running.
I’ll be testing each one with certain criteria which basically will be the brightest, loudest and
hardest settings and configurations I can put the PSP under. This will result in showing you what
each battery is capable of, but understand you’ll probably get more time out of the batteries as
you probably won’t be playing under conditions as hardcore as I’m testing with.
Features
 A High Quality Lithium Rechargeable Battery
10,000 Recharges (Lifetime)
Built-in FULL 2600MaH power
Eight Hours of Power
Contents
 2600MAH Lithium Battery
Installation
All you have to do to install the battery is replace your old one with the new one by opening the
battery cover. Once this is done plug in the PSP's power adapter and let it charge all the way up. Don't
unplug the PSP until the battery is charged all of the way up!
Comparison
For starters, each battery took 2:10 minutes to charge up. The original battery showed 10 hours 30
minutes and the Max 11 hours 20 minutes of life from the internal PSP’s battery status screen. As
my results will show you will understand why I never trust these type of measurements.
To test the PSP with a game I used Need for Speed - Underground Rivals with the brightness all of the way
up and of course the volume too. As you can see the Max is winning so far!
I used the demo discs music for the UMD test. Once again the volume was turned all of the way up, but I set
the screen to turn off after 2 minutes as most people wont need the screen on while listening to music. For
the Duo Card I also set the screen to turn off after 2 minutes. The MAX is still kicking some ass!
For the UMD and Duo video test I used "The Terminator". Both batteries supplied enough juice to watch
the entire movie and then some, but I fear that watching a longer movie such as the Lord of the Rings
from the UMD slot would require you to recharge the battery a little to finish it. Once again - the MAX
wins!
Conclusion
Clearly the Max battery beats Sony’s stock battery by an average of around 35 minutes. Due to the
fact the battery costs less then official replacements I would get one of these and then still use
your original battery as a backup. Doing this would result in a lot of playtime for the end user.
Positives
 Same recharge time as original battery
You get an average of 35 minutes of playtime
Longer recharge limit then original
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Negatives
 None!
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