Rob Beschizza
Gear

Nokia's New Phones To "Alert" User When Charged

Nokia’s newest phones aren’t greedy with electricity, feasting instead on the rage that will result when they start bleating incessantly after receiving a full charge from the socket. The makers claim that the move could save enough power to run 85,000 homes for a year, and will eventually roll out the feature across their entire […]

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Nokia's newest phones aren't greedy with electricity, feasting instead on the rage that will result when they start bleating incessantly after receiving a full charge from the socket. The makers claim that the move could save enough power to run 85,000 homes for a year, and will eventually roll out the feature across their entire line.

Kirsi Sormunen, Vice-President of Environmental Affairs at Nokia said, "Around two-thirds of the energy used by a mobile phone is lost when it is unplugged after charging but the charger itself is left in a live socket.

The first models to feature "unplug me" alerts are the Nokia 1200 (pictured), 1208 and 1650, unpleasant mass-market units intended for China and Latin America. The goal is a worthy one, but this is a cheap, kludgey way to get to it. Instead, they should make the phone and charger more efficient, by not continuing to waste electricity when charged.

Press Release [Nokia]