Sony Goes Green by Ditching Chargers
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 12:40:39
Most people will have a number of charging cables lying around at home, many of which will either be designed for long-departed devices or duplicates of other chargers which are surplus to requirements. This is obviously an issue because manufacturers are wasting a lot of resources by providing chargers with new products that are ultimately going to be unnecessary.
Network provider O2 has been campaigning to encourage mobile phone producers to make chargers an optional extra with new mobile handsets rather than an essential inclusion and it seems that its campaign is gradually having an effect over the industry. This month Sony became the third major company to announce that it would no longer be putting chargers in a bundle with new devices following the launch of the Xperia SP handset.
HTC and Nokia are already part of this scheme with O2 and while customers can indeed get a charger if they require one, it will not be a mandatory inclusion. Instead a basic USB cable is featured, allowing for data transfer.
82 per cent of O2's customers chose to pick up an HTC handset without a charger and this was a real indication to Sony that it could save money and reduce its environmental impact by offering the same service. Hopefully this trend will catch on and eventually become ubiquitous, since it will reduce clutter for consumers and also be a far more sustainable approach to mobile ownership.
Of course in the near future we could see wired chargers becoming extinct as wireless charging is becoming more common. With universal wireless charging pads allowing people to juice up their smartphones without any cable, new devices could be sold with no wiring whatsoever, which would certainly be a step in a greener, more eco-friendly direction.
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