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basicasic

7:06 AM on 3 December, 2008

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Seems like a good idea on the surface of it. But it hardly sounds like 'breakthrough' technology does it? Surely it would make more sense if mobile phone manudfacturers supplied something like this in the first place. It would be interesting to see how much energy it saves compared to how much it takes to manufacture, transport and sell the thing in the first place.

And from a consumer perspective you'll never save £14.99 worth of electricity if you leave your phone on charge from now to eternity.

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mrdog

9:51 AM on 3 December, 2008

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true, but with christmas coming soon, hopefully someone else can swallow the purchase price and leave you with all the savings

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Darfuria

10:50 AM on 3 December, 2008

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Those are some surprisingly large numbers. Good job, O2.

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Williamn

1:13 PM on 3 December, 2008

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Actually trees need carbon dioxide to survive more than they need oxygen. I think reducing our CO2 emissions is more important for the prospering of our species, than it is important for trees; although obviously trees are important players in keeping us alive.

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Gordon394

1:16 PM on 3 December, 2008

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@Williamn - yep, but needless power consumption leads to more burning of fossil fuels plus more chopping down of trees ;)

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Chris2510

10:28 AM on 4 December, 2008

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A useful thing would be for phone makers and other gadget makers to agree on a standard connection for chargers - then they could cut costs and the environmental impact of sending out an individual charger with every phone or gadget. If you knew that you could buy a charger with full confidence that it would work with your new toy, and any other gadgets you have for the foreseeable future, then surely that would do more for the environment - as well as reducing the rats nest of cables that I'm sure most people like me have tucked in a drawer at home...

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Alex2006

12:19 PM on 4 December, 2008

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China, Japan and Korea have already had universal charger national standard in force. Why can't other countries follow? Manufacturers want to make money from other "proprietary" chargers.

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sugob

2:48 PM on 4 December, 2008

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Are all these 'universal national chargers' actually universal between these countries?

As the Nokia 8600 has micro USB charging, then the Chinese standard is micro USB?

www1.cei.gov.cn/ce/doc/cenlx/200709140712.htm

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ThaDon

5:06 PM on 4 December, 2008

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@basicasic - true, but try put a value on that 'feel-good factor' haha!

@Williamn - i agree; but i think a greener solution is to launch a product (red) universal phone charger, with all proceeds going to tree-planting exercises and forest conservation.

(1)Helps the whole issue of wasted energy by introducing technological efficiency, (2)Reduces the amount of CO2 by reducing the chargers needed out there

(3)Increases the number of trees out there sucking up what CO2 we DO produce.

Damn i'm good - somebody hire me!

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Alex2006

9:59 PM on 4 December, 2008

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sugob,

The Chinese unified cell phone charger standard defines the charger part, not the cable between charger and phone. Connectors connect cell phone can be anything, like micro USB, mini USB or whatsoever.

http://www.allianceforuniversalpower.org/presentations/3_china_aups-jun08.pdf

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sugob

10:52 AM on 5 December, 2008

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@Alex2006

Thanks, very interesting link {I'm sad like that ;-)}. Seems to be just a multi voltage USB charger {full fat USB connector} - nothing revolutionary e.g. similar to my iPhone charger. Think this will be useful as I have effectively done this myself - bought a griffin jolt {car cigar lighter USB charger - very light} and one proprietary cable for each device e.g. can now charge iPhone/Nokia/Clix and even an ancient Palm T3 from mains/car {in US/UK} without humfing too many 'airport security unfriendly' chargers/cables {same cable can also be used with laptops to charge and data sync}.

Hopefully, this will probably encourage device manufactures here to switch to mini/micro USB connectors on their gadgets to further reduce my cables - eventually replace with some form of induction charging {with bluetooth for data}?

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