O2 launches green phone charger

Eco option cuts consumption by as much as 70%

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O2 launches green phone charger

1 December 2008 16:24 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

Telefonica O2 UK has announced the launch of an energy efficient universal mobile phone charger - the O2 Universal Charger.

Apparently the first product of its kind to be launched by a UK network, O2 says its Universal Charger is amongst the most energy efficient in the UK cutting energy consumption by as much as 70% compared to standard mobile phone chargers.

The charger has a power control system that considerably reduces charge to the mobile phone once the battery is fully charged, even if the charger is left switched on in a plug socket.

Heat loss from the charger has also been eliminated, another source of significant energy loss from standard mobile chargers.

The base unit of the Universal Charger will ship with inter-changeable leads, currently compatible with Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson devices and will be compatible with BlackBerry and iPhone in early 2009.

O2's Universal Charger is now available from all UK O2 stores priced £14.99 and will be available at a discounted price of £7.49 when purchased with an O2 handset until the end of the year.



Comments

  • "Heat loss from the charger has also been eliminated"... so the world's first charger made entirely with superconductor components then? Posted by GK, UK
  • A universal charger that works with three brands. Admittedly the three biggest, but it's hardly "universal", is it? Come to think of it, making additional chargers is hardly "protecting the environment" either. Posted by Where's Mike?, UK
  • Great news for the environment - and it woutld have been even better - and a FANTASTIC PR stunt if O2 had made the charger available to ALL at hte discounted price rather than linking it to O2 sales. it would obvciously have attracted NONe O2 users into their stores as well!.

    Sorry Mike - but the term universal is very apt here (although not "correct"). The brandsmentiond constitute I belive nearly 85% of the telephones used - and that potentially is a uge saving to the environment.

    So, despite it all - thanks O2!
    (P.S. - I dont work for them - or even have an O2 phone)!     Posted by Tony Orwin, United Kingdom

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