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On Feb 17, 2009 the GSMA issued a pressing freeing announcing that “17 leading mobile operators and manufacturers” agreed to standardize the interface to charge the devices they’d sell in the future tense to microUSB by the year 2012. Now I’ve been a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) man my whole life, until February of this class that is when I purchased a Google Nexus One, but before I switched to Android I had a Nokia charger, and so did all my other friends.
If you’re thought Republic of Finland is “Nokia-land”, and that those who don’t support Nokia get rocks thrown at them piece old ladies scream obscenities, then you’re right. If you’re visiting a acquaintance’s flat, blaze even if you’re at a bar or a dark club, chances ar you can find a battery charger for topping up your mobile twist. The same can’t be said about Sony Ericsson (New York Stock Exchange: SNE), Motorola (NYSE: MOT test), LG, Samsung, and other mobile earpiece manufactures, which meant that if you ever switch vendors, you’d suddenly wealthy person a stash of mobile phone chargers that were useless. You’d also wealthy person to carry your charger around everywhere you went, because no I could springiness you some succus.
More worrisome is that in rich western countries, places where people buy a new mobile earpiece every 12 to 18 months, people accumulate a bunch of chargers that they’ll probably never manipulation. When I left Finland for 45 years, and thought I wasn’t going away to come back, I gathered up all the engineering in my apartment and noticed that I had at least 5 Nokia chargers with me, all with an EU jade, therefore all useless to me where I was going away. I handed them out like candy to my friends, but it got me thinking, why tin can’t phones be sold without chargers?
Rubber isn’t cheap to produce, copper is expensive as it becomes more and more precious, and the quantity of fuel used to ship a battery charger from mainland China to some warehouse in Germany, before finally arrival my closest retail store in Finland, is absolutely ridiculous. By 2012, when all mobile phones manipulation microUSB, I promise mobile phones start shipping without chargers, and I really hope earpiece manufactures layover including those abysmal headphones that ar often bundled.
Anyway, hippy dogshit excursus, about 3 weeks ago I found myself backrest in Finland with a Nexus One, II laptops, and only one USA to EU power converter. Now I love my mobile earpiece, but if you made me choose between my laptop, which rarely leaves my apartment, and the ability to textual matter and call option from anywhere in the earthly concern, I’d payoff my laptop any solar day of the workweek. The laptop won scoop rights to the mightiness converter, so I was tasked with a mission to find a charger!
I didn’t even bother looking at for HTC chargers, first base affair I did was buy a Nokia charger, the AC-10E. It’s Nokia’s only microUSB charger you can buy in Republic of Finland, and I think the only one the troupe makes. It’s big, it’s bulky, but hey, it charged my Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Nexus One without any issues. Why would there be any issues, a criterion is a criterion, right field?
Fast forward to a few days ago, and I’m browse around Verkkokauppa, Finland’s largest strand of electronic stores, on a oil production Sabbatum good afternoon. I stumble across the TinyPlug MicroUSB” charger and knew I had to have it. It’s smaller, much smaller, than the functionary Nokia charger, and for a guy like me who’s on an airplane at least once every 3 months, reduction exercising weight and book is critical. It’s also convenient to wealthy person one battery charger in the bedroom and I in the kitchen/living elbow room.
Since it’s microUSB it just deeds, it also appears to be charging my Nexus One at the same speed as my Nokia battery charger, and according to the online product page it has an idle mightiness draw of 0.3 watts. Using the image below, a photo I took of the backrest of the packaging that housed my Nokia AC-10E, the TinyPlug has a 2 star topology mightiness efficiency rating while the Nokia has a 5 star topology. If I was really green I’d upkeep about that, but the fact that I no yearner have a cable car, and have dramatically cutting off down feather on my consumption of meat since it’s crazy expensive in this country, I’ll forget about such small things as star ratings.
The best part about the charger is the price. While the Nokia AC-10E cost me 20 EUR, the TinyPlug was only 9.90 EUR! If you’re in Republic of Finland, and have a new mobile phone, I’d highly recommend you selection I up. Assuming you’re in another country, then you’ll probably see the TinyPlug in shop class near you at some point, most likely under a different brand.
This product was obviously made by some no epithet Chinese manufacturer, and I’m alright with that. Thank you GSMA.
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