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Apple has made tremendous strikes in increasing the battery life on the iPhone, but with so many websites to visit and so many apps to play, you can never have enough juice when you’re out on the town. Sure, you can limit your phone usage Windows Phone 7 style, but why take all the fun out of what should be a consistently enjoyable experience?

So what’s an iPhone 4 user strapped for battery power to do? Why, the mophie juice pack plus, of course.

The latest case from mophie doubles as an external and rechargable battery for the iPhone 4 and serves to more than doubles the amount of time iPhone users can use their device before having to recharge. According to mophie, it’s latest case has a 2,000 mAh battery capacity, which it notes is the largest of any juice pack case available on the market.

More impressively, and unlike some other third party battery cases you might have seen conspicuously floating around, the mophie juice pack for the iPhone 4 only adds approximately 1 mm of thickness when compared to previous pack designs. Talk about a lot of bang for your buck.

The iPhone 4 juice pack will set you back about $99.95 and can currently be purchased from Mophie’s online website. If you’d like to test it out in person, fear not. The battery pack will soon be available in AT&T stores nationwide.

Getting down to the nitty gritty, here’s how the mophie juice pack plus can really help you increase iPhone usage while prolonging battery life.

• Up to 8 additional hours talk time on 3G; 16 hours 2G
• Up to 7 additional hours internet use on 3G; 11 hours WiFi
• Up to 44 hours additional audio playback
• Up to 11 hours video playback

But wait, there’s more!

The juice pack comes with acoustic sound enhancement which acts as a virtual speaker box, redirecting sound from the bottom of the iPhone 4 to the front, resulting in richer, fuller sound quality. Some other perks include the ability to charge your iPhone without removing it from the juice pack, and a toggle switch which enables users to switch back and forth between standby and charging mode as to effectively use the juice pack plus only when needed.

The mophie juice pack plus is, for the time being, only available in black, though cyan, magenta, and yellow options will become available in the near future.