http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/11/unplug-your-charged-phone-save-the-world/ Engadget Mobile Comments for http://www.engadgetmobile.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgetmobile.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/11/unplug-your-charged-phone-save-the-world/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/11/unplug-your-charged-phone-save-the-world/Oct 11th 2006 2:46PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/11/unplug-your-charged-phone-save-the-world/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/11/unplug-your-charged-phone-save-the-world/thats probably because if this happened then once the phone fully charged it would stop charging, then the phone would begin using up battery and after like a minute the phone would think "Hey, Im not charged 100% anymore" and so would start a cycle that would probably kill your battery life much faster than it already does. ]]>Oct 11th 2006 4:16PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/11/unplug-your-charged-phone-save-the-world/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/11/unplug-your-charged-phone-save-the-world/
Truly if someone's charging their phone & leaving it on the charger until it loses significant juice w/o usage then why do they have the phone in the 1st place? Or how about alkaline rechargables. I remember those from yonder (or new version that's out http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/08/hybrio-batteries-bridge-gap-between-disposables-and-rechargables/) that doesn't lose charge sitting around.]]>Oct 11th 2006 4:27PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/11/unplug-your-charged-phone-save-the-world/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/11/unplug-your-charged-phone-save-the-world/
As far as the charger goes, not only would a 10% drop be good, you could go as far as letting the phone tell the charger what to do. i.e. the charger isn't pulling anything while on the wall, you plug in the phone, a circuit is completed, the charge starts, when the phone is full, it tells the charger no more, disconnects the circuit and won't draw more power until at least 10% (maybe programmable by user) power drop and/or the phone is disconnect and reconnect again. You could get even trickier (and really increase charger costs I imagine) and install a small battery in the charger itself that takes over as a maintenance charger once the phone is full. It would be smart enough to only draw the power needed for later maintenance when the phone is plugged in. Lots of easy ideas.]]>Oct 11th 2006 4:49PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/11/unplug-your-charged-phone-save-the-world/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/11/unplug-your-charged-phone-save-the-world/
A better solution would be to electrically disconnect the battery from the phone after it's charged, so the phone is only using wall power. Then it's drawing just as much juice from the wall as it would have from the battery (which gets it from the wall to begin with). So long as it's not using EXTRA energy, nothing is wasted (since unplugging the phone doesn't stop it from drawing energy....)
-Taylor]]>Oct 11th 2006 6:04PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/11/unplug-your-charged-phone-save-the-world/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/11/unplug-your-charged-phone-save-the-world/]]>Oct 11th 2006 8:45PM