two-thirds of readers still want to get a charger with their smartphone
Two-thirds of Androidworld readers want a charger to be included with a phone. Many manufacturers don’t want it anymore from an environmental point of view (and money savings of course), but our smartphone owners don’t seem to be big fans of that policy.
Charger with your smartphone
Where in 2020 many a reader said that he or she has enough chargers (56 percent), it is now very different. 66 percent of readers simply expect a new charger with every smartphone they buy. Drink organ, for example, likes to fill up the drinks cabinet by selling the old telephone. “I always sell my old phone, so I need a charger. Not supplying a charger is knocking money out of your pocket. Especially now that every phone manufacturer uses a different technology for fast charging. It would be better if there was a mandatory standard for fast charging so that chargers are interchangeable.”
29 percent don’t really need it: another charger in the house. one of them came up with a clever idea. “I would think it would be a good option to sell a phone without a charger and to have that option to get new ones with current fast charging technology if you hand in the old one or something. I bought my own charger from Anker at home where I charge all my USB equipment. Have the chargers of the last phones still in the packaging. In addition, it is striking that the chargers that are included are often not a fast charger.”
a lot of doubt
The advantage of a charger-less smartphone is that the boxes can, for example, be somewhat smaller and therefore more boxes fit in a truck as well as on the shelf (or in the warehouse, which is unfortunately often necessary due to robberies). 5 percent do not really have an opinion on this topic or are hesitating between the two options.
That doubt is imaginable: you would of course prefer to use the corresponding cable with your phone, because it belongs together and therefore probably works most optimally (or at least has to work as the smartphone maker promises). Shogun says so too. “With advancing charging technologies, I also want the charger that goes with it, without wondering whether I am making optimal use of that new technology. So yes.”
At the same time, it is better for our planet if new chargers are not produced and transported every time. Besides, at some point you do have a drawer full of USB-C chargers, right?
Next week we’ll be back with another AW Poll, now we’ll continue tying a skipping rope from all those cables. Until then!
