It\u2019s no secret \u2013 smartphones are not cheap. We can end up paying anything from the $100 mark, up to as much as $1,500, and if you\u2019re currently in a pre-pay contract, it\u2019s better you forget about the math. But, as our lives pretty much revolve around smartphones these days, many of us have never stopped to contemplate just how much they\u2019re actually costing us electricity-wise.<\/p>\n
Well, you\u2019re in for a shock my friends.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s take an iPhone for example. The battery of a standard iPhone 6 takes about 10.5 watt-hours<\/strong> of electricity to fully charge. If we\u2019re going by the average retail price of electricity in the United States, which is around $0.12<\/strong> (0.11 EUR) per kilowatt-hour, then doing this on a daily basis for a full year would cost around $0.47<\/strong> (\u20ac0.43) to charge your cell phone. Tablets are said to cost around three times as much as phones, so let\u2019s say about $1.41<\/strong> (\u20ac1.29), and laptops around $8.00<\/strong> (\u20ac7.34).<\/p>\n This information basically means that keeping all your technology fully charged throughout the year should cost you no more than $10.00<\/strong> (\u20ac9.20)! It\u2019s no secret \u2013 smartphones are not cheap. We can end up paying anything from the $100 mark, up to as much as $1,500, and if you\u2019re currently in a pre-pay contract, it\u2019s better you forget about the math. But, as our lives pretty much revolve around smartphones these days, many of us have never … Continue reading “How much does it actually cost to charge your cell phone?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-84935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329363,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84935\/revisions\/329363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84935"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=84935"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=84935"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=84935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA standard fridge-freezer is believed to cost around $90 a year to run \u2013 that\u2019s almost 200 times more than your cell phone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"