iPhone 5 costs aproximaly 41 cents per year to charge

A new study states that Apple's new iPhone 5 costs only 41 cents a year to recharge if you do it once a day. This new estimate shows that it is less than a third of its sibling, the iPad.

 

This is assuming that iPhone 5 owners will recharge their device once a day for the entire year:

The metric, put out this week by energy analytics company Opower, is based on the assumption that iPhone owners will recharge their device once a day for the entire year:

Phone 5: consumed 9.5 watt-hours to charge, taking 1 hour and 50 minutes. Maximum wattage was 6.3 watts, with an average of approximately 5.0 W. Multiplying 0.0095 kWh/day by 365 days = 3.47 kWh per year. Annual charging cost is projected to be $0.41/year.

(via news.cnet.com)



 (via Opower)

 Opower stated that, regarding this subject,  iPhone won against its main competition, Samsung's Galaxy S3, which is estimated to cost 53 cents a year to be charhed due to its larger battery.