iPhone 5 Costs Roughly $0.41 Per Year to Charge

[iapplelove]

none the less,with the millions of iPhones being charged every night at least they are efficient.

[b-rad g]

Haha...I usually charge my iPhone and MacBook Air at work! Of course I work at a power company and our cost for power is much less than the residential rate.

[BigMcGuire]

Originally Posted by KdParker

4 bucks ?

Extremely accurate according to http://grist.org/green-living-tips/a...rs-plugged-in/ which uses http://standby.lbl.gov/summary-table.html as a source. Nice guess

[wovel]

All I see from this story is if you choose the SIII as your phone, you hate the earth.

[KPOM]

Originally Posted by AbyssImpact

iPhone 4 is cheaper, might as well buy that instead.

I can see the headlines now. iPhone 5 Costs 8% More than iPhone 4 to Charge!

[BigMcGuire]

Originally Posted by wovel

All I see from this story is if you choose the SIII as your phone, you hate the earth.

Amen!!!!! PREACH IT!

[WestonHarvey1]

Originally Posted by Arxcher

Because this is what I worry about when I am dropping hundreds of dollars on a product...

Right, because owning something that costs hundreds of dollars means I wouldn't prefer my electricity costs be lower. I must be a crazy environmentalist if I like paying less for something.

I like paying more unnecessarily. It shows off how rich I am.

[Asriel]

Originally Posted by jnpy!$4g3cwk

What is the cost of leaving the charger plugged in when not charging?

I was wondering that, thinking that the power consumption used while charging would be dwarfed by the power used by always leaving the charger pugged in, but then I read this old page and found out that that was peanuts too.

Now how much money am I wasting by leaving my phone plugged in overnight when it only takes an hour to charge?

Not much extra I guess, doesn't it cycle on and off to save the battery, or is that just the bigger devices?

[mr.steevo]

Originally Posted by Freyqq

Why is this about iphones? Any smartphone would use that kind of energy.

Because if the report was regarding the energy use of the LG GW620R no one would be bothered to read it.

Know your audience.

[slineaudi]

Originally Posted by logicpro7

Really that cheap? I would have thought more than that a week. Im in the UK though, so im not sure how much a difference elec bills would be.

Currently pay around £1000 a year here.

Yeah, I was surprised it's that cheap as well.

Probably comparable rates. I pay about 8 cents USD per kWh before taxes and whatnot.

[Krazy Bill]

So smaller devices use less energy than big ones?

[Will do good]

Originally Posted by Arxcher

Because this is what I worry about when I am dropping hundreds of dollars on a product...

How about the thousands in the service plan

[STiNG Operation]

We need to get the costs down to .30 cents/yr for the next iPhone!!!!!

[jnpy!$4g3cwk]

Originally Posted by Asriel

I was wondering that, thinking that the power consumption used while charging would be dwarfed by the power used by always leaving the charger plugged in, but then I read this old page and found out that that was peanuts too.

Thanks! Great reference.

[justperry]

Originally Posted by BigMcGuire

Extremely ... extremely minuscule. Hook it up to a Kill-A-Watt sometime. Basically, the electrical cost of a cellphone or a Macbook Air for an entire year is less than 1 visit to Starbucks. Now, x millions of cellphone users adds up but still... My 800 watt gaming computer makes me a terrible person. <cough>

Check out: http://standby.lbl.gov/summary-table.html

Looks like .26 watts? lawl

That's average, max. is 1 Watt

Does not seem like much but even .26 W adds up

.26 X 24 X 365 = 2277,6 Watts

100 million X 2277,6 = 228 GWatt

So, even 0.26 watt is a waste if 10s or 100s of millions of iPhones would leave their chargers plugged in.

[nick_elt]

Originally Posted by Ryth

The environmentalists worry about it...green is better.

Im getting black myself.

[applesith]

Government going to regulate this soon?

[flopticalcube]

Why is a pocket cell phone being compared to a 42" plasma again?

[ericrwalker]

Unless you use the airport charger, then it's $3 for 30 minutes.

[Asriel]

Originally Posted by justperry

Does not seem like much but even .26 W adds up

.26 X 24 X 365 = 2277,6 Watts

Up to this point it equals 26.8 cents by their reckoning, then wow, would you believe it, multiply anything by 100 million and you get a bit number.

This would be relevant if they were talking about the environment but the article is about cost.

If they had measured it in trees/drowning polar bears/bunnies withfaces you're absolutely right.

[citi]

I can't get over the fact that it cost almost as much to power your xbox than your flat screen.

But that's also assuming running it all day won't kill it.

(I have an xbox - it's a joke)

[franswa za]

this must be a slow apple news day arn

[justperry]

Originally Posted by ericrwalker

Unless you use the airport charger, then it's $3 for 30 minutes.

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And how much is that machine


In singapore there are lots of places for free, shopping malls, free service.

[MattJessop]

This would have never have happened under Steve.....

[baryon]

It's quite shocking to think how much a set-top box consumes, more than a Desktop PC, while a set-top box does nothing other than a few limited tasks every once in a while when you decide to use it, as opposed to a PC that does everything you'd ever want to do.

It's not just the power consumption of useful high-tech devices we should worry about, but also about useless, badly designed devices that just suck energy non-stop to power their RAM because the manufacturer wasn't capable of spending more on actual permanent storage, or because the device constantly executes a loop of functions just to check if there is any input from the remote.

Oh, for those who say that we should be unplugging every electronic device when we don't use them (TV, set top box, washing machine, etc…), well give it a try yourself: first thing that will happen is that they will forget the time, the channels, they will take 10 minutes to boot up when you turn them back on, and if you turn them on in the wrong order they won't recognize each other (set top boxes in particular).