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December 2, 2007

Charge!

I wonder what the Ultimate Mobile Phone Charger™ would look like? After all, shouldn't Nokia and friends be looking at the "whole customer experience"?

Here's a few starters:

  • Would completely switch off when no phone plugged in, no standby power at all.
  • Cord would retract, no tangle and dangles.
  • Would change colour to reflect the charge state of the phone.
  • The phone and charger could communicate so that when being charged the phone's presence state would go to "not being worn" and would allow longer for things like answering calls.
  • One step further: it beeps to remind you to charge phones with dead batteries when they come into the vicinity. (There are a few ways this might automagically happen.)
  • It would be HomePlug compatible and you could do IP over your home power network without draining the battery.
  • Would have built-in retractable US, European and British power plugs.
  • Doubles as a USB charger for other devices.

Any more?

Posted by Martin Geddes at 10:59 PM
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