If they stopped charging the phone and let it start draining, you could easily pull your phone off of the charger in the morning with only 10% battery (in the example where it waits till the batt is at 10% before beginning to charge again.
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
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Taylor Alexander @ Oct 11th 2006 6:04PM
If they stopped charging the phone and let it start draining, you could easily pull your phone off of the charger in the morning with only 10% battery (in the example where it waits till the batt is at 10% before beginning to charge again.
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