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iPhone 5 Costs Roughly $0.41 Per Year to Charge
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Boy, am I glad that electric cars don't use electricity, since they will be mandatory some day. Going green, y'know.
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You are supposed to feel bad about being a consumer. Now go pay your carbon tax like a man.
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You are supposed to feel bad about being a consumer. Now go pay your carbon tax like a man.
Wow, that is less power than I would have thought. Kind of amazing how power efficient these devices have gotten. Also nice reminder about how little actual power the battery can hold if charging it fully 365 times adds yo to less than 50 cents worth of electricity.
Geez, talk about a lot of commentors with their heads a few miles up their butts....
According to my math on the above, every time someone's using an iPhone 5 to access the net they're using 1/68th the energy of a desktop PC and 1/25th that of a notebook. Similarly when one watches a video on a phone instead of on a full-sized HDTV and set top box, 1/123rd, (i.e., a greater than 99% energy saving) or plays a game instead of using an X-Box Console + a TV, 1/198th the amount of energy.
So even if things in the world worked out so that every human owned and used a smartphone or tablet (up from approximately a fifth with computing/internet access today?), the energy savings would be enormous, and likely the single easiest, most feasible way to cut the world's energy budget significantly - and quickly - and with more positive tradeoffs than negative ones in the content consumption experiences for most tasks done with all these devices most of the time.
Get it?? This isn't the least important or irrelevant article published in Mac Rumors in a while as some have said, rather one of the most important observations that can be made about the potential of the new emerging shape of computing and content consumption to make life more tolerable on the entire planet.
When one person in a developing country gets their first car, we've added another large source of energy consumption, but if 10 people who have no digital/TV access get a computer/communicator/theater that fits in their hand and even 3 or 4 who already have it switch much of their use to one, we've still eliminated a lot of energy use (and done more to connect the whole human race).
There are other factors in the infrastructure and backbone of the internet - all those servers and cloud data storage services, e.g., and people having multiple powered up devices, but the trend still points toward much greater energy efficiency in the field of digital device use, and then there are all the physical books not printed and trucked (and the heavier, more resource intensive devices - computers, X-Boxes, etc. - to be assembled and shipped, etc., etc.) And then there are all the cost savings to individuals powering their devices.
Not to mention that many of the best ideas for managing all energy use on the planet more efficiently are significantly aided and abetted - and many to most wouldn't be happening - without the computing and internet tech revolutions.
And I just shake my head at any of you who thinks this has nothing to do with the quality of your future lives and health of the planet's ecosphere in general.
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We need to get the costs down to .30 cents/yr for the next iPhone!!!!!
I'm sure the government will step in and tell apple they have to. It's for the Childeren!
These must be averages, because I'm pretty sure the 1200 watt power supply with 2 high-end, over-clocked GPU's in my desktop PC cost me more than $41 a year to power. ;-)
Pretty amazing how LITTLE it costs to charge and iPhone. Astoundingly little, really.
Pretty amazing how LITTLE it costs to charge and iPhone. Astoundingly little, really.
It's worth repeating this in its entirety to try to balance out the pages of crassness it's refuting.
They need to clarify what model of Xbox 360 they are referring to. The Xbox 360 Slim only uses 135Watts. Also, my Plasma TV (2010 model) only uses 150 Watts. There's no way those are using more than my PC.
Pfft, biased chart is biased.
Pfft, biased chart is biased.
Just another reason why smartphones will be the PC's for the world of the 21st century in developing nations.
Amazing times we're living in, and lets not forget that along with Moore's Law there is Koomey's Law that says roughly the same processing power at half the power draw every 18 months.
We're soon going to be able to power our low power electronics with a simple built in solar panel (perhaps concentrated solar?).
Amazing times we're living in, and lets not forget that along with Moore's Law there is Koomey's Law that says roughly the same processing power at half the power draw every 18 months.
We're soon going to be able to power our low power electronics with a simple built in solar panel (perhaps concentrated solar?).
I don't think the rates are comparable. We're paying more than three times as much as you mention. Is probably similar in the UK; energy has always been much cheaper in North America compared to Europe.
No joke. I never asked for the phone to be this thin. The lightness is welcome, but if it were 1/2 way between the 4S and this, the battery would be MUCH stronger because all of that space would basically be used by the extra battery.
In fact, the thinness is creating an unbalanced situation where if you hold the phone too low, because of the thinness and height, it starts to tip forward. Hoping the case I buy will restore balance.
Wow! Now this is something that I can brag about to my friends with the Galaxy SIII. They will spend .12 a year more than I will. Suckers!!
$20/0.41 = 50
Average usage 10 hours
10 X 60 minutes = 600 minutes
600/50 = 12 minutes
What do you do, short circuit the battery to drain the battery that fast
Or have superduper LTE
Me too. Seems ridiculous how much I charge mine. But then again, I charge in public places as much as possible.
So, we should feel for you while still having one of the best economies in the world and much of the rest of the world is "suffering".
You're still lucky, look at the prices in Denmark and Germany, still higher there.
/Sarcasme
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Hmm, interesting. I wonder where the Macbook Air fits into this graph. Lower consumption than the iPad or higher?