| Ron Hunter 2007-05-29, 7:33 am |
| sarah bennett wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2007 20:25:10 -0400, Pieter wrote:
>
>
> To be honest, I'm more concerned with getting a good CONVENIENT and
> RELIABLE GPS unit than the environment, although I do strongly feel that if
> electronics didn't need to come with a charger (because we'd be chock full
> of them since they'd all be the same), not only would everything be thirty
> dollars cheaper, but the environment would benefit from tens of millions of
> chargers that wouldn't have to be manufactured every year because we
> wouldn't neeed any more.
>
> Having said that, always have a charger and a USB cable as a backup gives
> us convenience and reliability that proprietary chargers can never match.
>
> Now the trick is to find a web site that agrees with me enough for them to
> show what charger is actually used by the portable GPS units!
>
> sarah
My wife and I both have Motorola RAZR phones, and the Bluetooth
headsets. Each unit came with the same type of recharger, so we have 4
of them, and a 'car cord'. When we travel, we take two along, and the
'car cord' of course. Seems to me if they sold the units without the
charger, it would make better sense, and if they could be charged from
my laptop/desktop USB connections, I could dispense with chargers
completely, but there is no option to not get the additional chargers.
I suspect it is cheaper from the manufacturer's point of view to include
the charger (VERY cheap) rather than to maintain two different packages.
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