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Below you will find several links as to where to get solar chargers for your small devices. But before you choose, there are a few things you should know about portable solar chargers and solar panels to make sure you get the right solar device for you electrical gadgets.

Essentially you can get two types of solar chargers:

1. Solar chargers with built in batteries.

2. Solar chargers without built in batteries. in this case we can refer to them as simply solar panels.

Both type of solar chargers/panels come in several power ranges and sizes. The size is usually indicated in watts or wattage.

Whereas both types collect energy from the sun through their solar cells in the panels. One has "internal" rechargeable batteries such as the Solio Classic solar charger, Solio Hybrid solar chargers and also the recent released SunCell Solar Charger.

The internal batteries store the solar energy collected when exposed to sunlight and allow you to plug-in your cell phone, MP3 Player Ipod or other small device whenever you want in order to recharge or run your electrical device. There are several brands available on the market, but currently Solio is the leading brand among this type of solar charger.

The other option available for small electronic devices is a "regular" portable solar panel. That is to say simply a sheet of solar cells with electrical connections. These are not bad either and do have their uses. But you will be limited as to when and where you can charge or power your electrical device.

Now if you intend to spend the day at the beach and soak up the sun while listening to your radio, Ipod,playing your portable game console, or you are out fishing and runing your fishfinder this works out fine. But if you run out off battery power on your cell phone in the middle of a thunderstorm or at night, you will not be able to get any power from your solar panel. A solar charger that is also able to keep the solar energy collected from the sun for later use would allow you to draw power under such circumstances.

The key here is really what's the intended use? That will determine what type of portable solar charger you want to get for your small devices.

A flexible solar panel such as the solarol 14 is very easy to use on either the beach, camping or hiking, and as long as you use it to charge your items before hand or use it to power your item during the day it will work absolutely fine. There is nothing wrong with this type of solar charger.