It isn’t a mystery that devices that are left plugged in to outlets often times continue to pull electricity, even when not in use. Toasters, hair blow dryers, and yes, even cell phone chargers all have the tendency to continue to draw electricity, often referred to as “vampires” in electronic slang.

AT&T has decided to attempt to overcome this energy efficiency issue by creating quite the charger. The charger is called the “ZERO Charger”. This will be the first ever created zero draw charger to hit the market. Its release is scheduled for May and will be available to all AT&T customers. Now, I know what you’re thinking. How much electricity can a plugged in cell phone charger possibly waste? How much of a difference can this possibly make? The answer: It can make a big difference, and trust us, it wastes a whole lot of electricity. A plugged in cell phone charger, over a year time period, can waste massive amounts of electricity that works towards no purpose. The electricity is just simply, wasted.

Lucky for you, and us, the charger will not cost a pretty penny. As a matter of a fact, the charger is exactly the same as previously designed models which waste energy. The design is also interchangeable which will save the customer money. Sounds like a good deal to us.

Considering the size of AT&T’S client base, this new charger, being offered at the same price to the same enormous amount of customers could in fact make a significant difference. While it may seem small it is in fact quite the leap for a company of this stature to make design decisions geared towards the environment which can be so easily accessed by the average joe with a cell phone.

We’ll be waiting in line for our new charger in May and hope to see you there!

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