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iPhone 5 Costs Roughly $0.41 Per Year to Charge
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Are we this desperate for something to report. Hardly front page news. Hardly worth mentioning anywhere as far as I am concerned.
I was going to ask the same about the Xbox 360. They have stepped down to a single 45nm package for the latest models.
~300W from a set top box? That is way too scary when it is not much more than a logicboard, tuner, and hard drive.
Part of the low cost is because most of us will have to charge our phone in the car while apple maps has us running around like a chicken with his head cut off.
I knew I felt guilty for charging my phone at work!!! I am stealing.I will apologize to my boss and put down a few $1s to cover my cellular charging for the last few years. <cries>
We have a very strict energy policy where I work. Window shades drawn, lighting at a minimum and electronics unplugged when not being actively used. During one month back in the spring I got into a discussion with our energy officer and he indicated cost of all utilities for one month worked out to about 5 cents per square foot per month. Using that rate, my office cost $4.89 to heat and power. When I suggested to him that I'd gladly pay and extra $5.00 to use all my lights and not have to hassle with climbing under my desk to unplug my computer, he wasn't amused.
But that is pointless. Everyone knows a cell phone uses far less than a TV. A more useful measure would be to compare it to most other cell phones. But as we can see, the results aren't as dramatic and therefore not as "newsworthy" on such a slow news day.
I'm a "normal" person, and I only need to charge my iPhone every 3 days.
Oh yes you do. Why should the masses have to carry a heavy, bulky smartphone around just because a few like you need the extra power? A battery pack is an easy addition. Removing excess size and weight by those that don't need it is impossible.
Nickelodeon and Disney Channel always say to "be green" and turn off smartphones and other portable electronics. Watching TV uses 100X the amount of electricity. A lightbulb uses more than a PC.
Maybe I'll rethink mod'ing my iPhone w/ a 42" Plasma display
Just get the new galaxy note?
Buy a Kill-A-Watt. It tells you how much current your device is drawing, and some quick calculations can tell you the cost per year. You'd be surprised at how much or how little electricity something uses. My dad used one to find out that our TV's speaker system was using about 100 watts per hour 24/7 amplifying nothing! Great job, whoever installed it.
I think an iMac G3 plugged in but turned off uses more power than an iPhone 4. Many devices that are plugged in but turned off use power.
Yes, it is trying to make you feel bad. Automatically assume a defensive stance when you hear information that doesn't conform with what you value.
Or the article is merely pointing out the aggregate energy demand of the devices we use to give us a better perspective on one of the most pressing dilemmas modern society will encounter energy.
I love how they infer that if people didn't have all these iPhones, then the world would be using so much more energy. If people didn't have an iPhone, they'd be using some other kind of cell phone, which would use the same if not more energy to power every year.
No, it's trying to make you feel good by showing the rest of the devices next to it that take way more power. Instead of going on a full-on PC every time you want to check your email, you can check your iPhone.
Maybe you are in a bad cell area or you are playing games all the time. I unplugged my phone yesterday morning at 8:30 am and when I put the iP5 on the charger at 12:30am I was at 14%. I'm good with that.
That's sending emails, playing a couple of games, watching an occasional youtube playing music, talking on the phone and sending text messages.
I just checked it with a Kill-A-Watt, when you don't have your iPhone plugged in its literally nothing = 0 Watts. This was with a 4S charger. iPad 3 charger is the same.
My guess would be the serious charging stuff is sitting in iPhone / iPad and with the iPhone / iPad out of the circuit not much is going through the charger, nice to see.
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Actually, I would find other cell phones pointless, while a TV is useful in this article. I find a broad spectrum of products far more interesting. It's not like this is a factor in whether I buy a phone, car, TV, or microwave tomorrow.
Also, phones' charging use don't actually depend on what the phone does, so smartphone/dumbphone doesn't matter, it depends on battery size. You just have to compare battery capacity to see charge cost. And frequency to get yearly cost.
Although, TVs vary widely. I didn't read the article to see what model TV they used. But with a scale of over 3x change from certain older models to certain newer models, that's kinda broad to just say "42 inch plasma".
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?
I already answered this question - 4$s.
really just a lucky guess.
That's a lot of electricity wasted when you consider how most landline phones don't even need to be plugged in to work.
Wait, was that a silly commend on a silly article? Oh well, at least macrumors gets the ad revenue from my page loads....
Wait, was that a silly commend on a silly article? Oh well, at least macrumors gets the ad revenue from my page loads....
Whenever I see these in here I wonder who doesn't carry a charging cable while traveling. In nearly every airport I've been in there are power outlets available, though sometimes they are being used or sometimes they are put in places that force you to sit on the floor to use them. I don't think I've every actually saw anyone using the pay chargers, but I do see them around.