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Mobile Industry Tries To Go Green

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Sep 22, 2006, 12:25 AM   by (staff)

Nokia today announced it will lead a group of manufacturers and carriers in an effort to reduce the environmental impact of mobile phones. The group will attempt to implement a wide range of changes including reducing harmful materials in phones, reducing the energy usage of phones, and increasing the number of old phones that are recycled. Nokia also singled out chargers as one of the targets, mentioning that teaching people to unplug their charged phones could save huge amounts of electricity. Motorola, Panasonic, Vodafone, Orange and others are also founding members of this effort.

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TheBlueCat

Sep 25, 2006, 9:04 AM

Teaching us?

"Nokia also singled out chargers as one of the targets, mentioning that teaching people to unplug their charged phones could save huge amounts of electricity."

Yeah ok.. I see that cell chargers may continue to waste electricity when left pluged in and not in use... instead of teaching us, wouldn't it be smarter to design a chager that dosnt do that..

Oh and God forbid all manufactures came together for a universal charging connection.. the small usb 2.0 looks like it could very well be it.

yeah I know the newer gen chargers are more efficent but ****, mine is at home allways plugged in and the cord just pokes out somewhere so I can charge overnight.
janze4

Sep 23, 2006, 1:46 AM

chargers?

Why does a fully charged cell phone waste energy? shouldnt the phone know to stop sucking up power?
The mobile phone charging circuit does its job on its end. The wall wart end can still draw lots of energy over time if it is the older linear type charger. The newer switching type power supply puts out just the right amount of voltage and current wh...
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HEKNOWS

Sep 22, 2006, 6:01 PM

its about time the thinking

its time for us to take care our planet 4 real 😉
lets make happen ppl lets gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 🤣
 
 
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