Attempting to egg on consumers to save electricity, Nokia has rolled out phones with alerts informing users to unplug the charger as soon as the battery gets full. Nokia came to a decision to place the alerts into mass markets products first to help take full advantage of the potential energy savings.Talking about the phones, Nokia said that mobile phones sounding a beep and showing an alert, Battery is full, please unplug the charger, could save an adequate amount of electricity to power 85,000 homes yearly.
The unplug alerts have been set to first come out on Nokia’s 1200, 1208 and 1650 phone models with later handhelds to follow, aiming on the rise markets such as India, China and Latin America. The alerts are the newest in a series of energy saving initiatives from Nokia. The phone manufacturer had come into alliance with other mobile industry firms on measures to lessen energy use and pollution as a project in joint venture with the European Commission. By 2010, the company hopes to reduce the amount of electricity consumed by a charger while still plugged into the mains instead of the phone by about 50%.