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Some new numbers from the Opower blog have revealed how much you can expect to spend when charging your iPhone 6 or 6 Plus. At average U.S. energy prices, the cost comes in at a mere $.47 per year for the smaller 4.7-inch device. The 5.5-inch model will run a little extra due to its larger battery, coming in at just over half a dollar for a total of $.52 per year on average. As you might expect, this year’s larger devices will cost a little more than the smaller iPhone 5, which cost only $.41 per year.
According to the blog, adding up the energy used by each of the 10 million units sold over opening weekend would come out to less power than the entire state of Nebraska uses in 12 hours. By comparison, a typical desktop computer uses about 41x the power of an iPhone 6, while Microsoft’s Xbox One console uses has much as 61x as much energy.
As was pointed out last week, while charging your device may be fairly inexpensive, it can cost you a lot of unnecessary time if you’re using the charger that ships with it.
You can find more facts and figures about the new iPhone’s power consumption over at the Opower blog.
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That is not an iPhone 6 Plus.
? What makes you think that?
Look at the screen. It almost touches the earpiece. There is a fair amount of space between the screen and earpiece on the 6 Plus.
Not bad at all.
Still too much for Michael O’Leary:
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/apr/23/theairlineindustry.transportintheuk
That’s awesome.
Does this take into account the cost of the charger being plugged in but not used? Also does it take into account that although the iPhone 6+ has a larger battery, it also can go longer between charges?
Apparently it does take into account the longer time between charges of the iPhone 6+, but it does not take into account the power used by the chargers when not in use.
http://blog.opower.com/2014/09/iphone-6-charging-47-cents/#Methodology
Is this why apples holding back on battery size? It this all about keeping cost per year down?