Is it environmentally friendly for manufacturers not to give away charging heads? Android phone editor Calvin Wankhede has observed over time that manufacturers’ practice of not giving away charging heads may be counterproductive to the original intent of being environmentally friendly. His reasoning is that today’s cell phone companies are focused on developing free fast charging protocols that are not compatible with each other. While everyone has a USB-C port, for those phones that don’t come with a dedicated charging head out of the box, you’re likely to be a long way from the theoretical peak power with a compatible head at home.
So, in order to increase the charging speed, you have to buy additional special charging heads. If you change your phone in a few months or years, whether it’s the same brand or a different brand, you’ll have to face the same problem again after the fast charging protocol is upgraded.
It is true that, at the moment, many of the main fast-charging brands will be factory standard with a full-blooded fast-charging head, but what if one day the promise is broken? This does not become a vicious circle of continuous manufacturing of electronic waste.
In short, the author believes that the USB-C interface unification is a good thing, the original intention of environmental protection is not wrong, but should pay attention to the unification of fast charging protocol, although this may kill the fast charging power “arms race” enthusiasm.
In addition, Wankhede also said that the benefits of a unified protocol is that the phone’s battery life is also a reliable guarantee that will not let the manufacturer rip is a three-way charging head to the phone to charge the bad.
