Shoppers head to The Academy for a ‘Quickie’
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008The Academy Shopping Centre in Aberdeen is the first venue in Scotland to install the new Quickie mobile phone chargers.
Supplied in the North east by Albyn Services Limited, the products in the Quickie range allow a customer to top up the power on their mobile phones for a small charge.
The Q10 units are equipped with connections for all makes of mobile phone and other hand held devices. The powerful pulse charge supplied by Quickie gives a typical mobile phone enough charge to last up to 8-hours in just ten minutes.
Jenny Hall, Business Development Executive for Quickie comments:
“The Quickie machines are popular in the Far East and the concept is great. Regularly travelling, particularly with business, I am all too aware of how inconvenient it is to run out of charge on the mobile, Blackberry or PDA.
“We rely on digital applications for just about all our personal information and sometimes there is nowhere you can plug in your phone and charge it as you typically would at home. I was so inspired by the Quickie products I couldn’t wait to bring them to Scotland.”
The Academy Shopping Centre in Aberdeen is the first venue in Scotland to install the Quickie machine. With two machines placed in the main shopping concourse already, the Centre is hoping to add more in the coming months.
Centre Manager at The Academy, John Macfarlane adds:
“The Quickie machine is great and going down really well with our customers. We’ve got the perfect set up in The Academy for them too – the relaxed area and the situation of the Quickies within our seating areas means that more and more people are taking advantage of them.
“It only costs £1 for a top up and we are seeing all ages use them – from business people needing to make important calls to teenagers making their first shopping trips alone, keeping in contact with their parents.”
All the customer has to do is select the correct charger for their phone, place £1 in the coin slot and charging starts. The Charging panel includes connectors for all mobile phone brands including; Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, O2, Motorola, LG, NEC, Panasonic and Sagem. When charging is complete phones and mobile devices can be cleaned under UV light.
There are currently two products in the Quickie range the Q10, capable of charging up to 10 mobile phones at one time and the larger Q18, which has the ability to charge up to 20 phones/devices.
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