We all have a responsibility in better managing the Earth's resources and you can do your bit by unplugging your Nokia smartphone as soon as it's ready. Need a little help remembering to do so, then meet Green Charging from the Nokia Ovi Store, the eco-warrior app with a trick up its sleeve. Find out how we got on with Green Charging in our review after the jump...
What follows is a true story, not even the names of the innocent have been changed:
"Did you hear that?" "Hear what?" "That SCREAM!"
"MumbleMumble CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE!" said the voice. If it was a burglar, then something truly awful must have happened to him. Something probably (given where the voice was coming from) involving stationery, a PC and an Xbox 360..
Yeah, so this app definitely works. We had meant to install Green Charging last week and had installed it, only to end up reviewing Nokia Gig Finder[http://noknok.tv/2010/01/11/nokia-gig-finder-app-launched/] instead. The app sat our our test N97 for the best part of a week, before we decided to leave it charging overnight, only to be woken the next day by what sounded like a human voice, screaming from the office.
It turns out that this is how Green Charging lets you know that your battery is full - by playing a sample of what sounds like a garbled version of the 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it any more' speech from the film Network plus some extra 'chaotic' sound effects.
Now, to be fair, this probably didn't wake us up - the N97 doesn't take seven hours to charge and it had probably been blaring away for a good while before we blearily noticed it. Nevertheless, that was a down a flight of stairs & trying to spend any time in a room where this sound effect is playing is sure to send you to the plug socket to unplug the phone from the mains (or whip out the USB cable, if you are charging from a PC). And that is the point - to reduce the amount of wasted electricity you use once the phone battery has had its fill.
Green Charging also lets you quickly check on remaining talk and standby time and battery status, as well as explaining in exhaustive detail why saving energy is a good thing. It even has a picture of a tree inside an old-style lightbulb, in case the message is a little unclear. Not that you should be using an old-style lightbulb, obviously. What are you trying to do, destroy the planet? Selfish.
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Price: Free
Size: 0.45 MB
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