Best iPhone Accessories for the Beach

Battery Pack

When you're at the beach, outlets are non-existent, which means if your iPhone gets low on battery there's no way to plug it in and charge it. However, this where battery packs can save the day.

Battery packs are essentially just external batteries that you can use to charge all sorts of USB devices. Think of them like external hard drives -- usually you'll find them inside of computers, but you can slap a shell around one with some ports and you now have an external one that you can take anywhere.

Perhaps the best battery packs to own are ones from Anker, which I'm a personal fan of. Their batteries come with PowerIQ, which automatically detects the voltage, amperage, etc. of your device that you plug in and optimizes the charging cycle so that it will charge as quickly as possible.

This 20,000mAh battery from Anker is $40 and has enough juice to recharge your iPhone at least four times over. If you don't need that much juice with you, you can get a cheaper 10,400mAh battery pack for only $20.