Just in time for next month’s Verizon iPhone release, we present to you a bit of thought-provoking, guilt-tripping data.
In this graphic by InfographicWorld was created for iAmGreen and brings to light some of the questions that nobody asks but everyone should. What happens to all of those cell phones that we simply stop using after we move on to the latest and greatest? How much power does it take to keep all of these cell phones running?
Is it likely that this graphic will make you toss out (in the recycling bin, of course) your cell phones and go back to the age of landlines? Of course not, but it makes for interesting trivia questions at cocktail parties.
Your data seems VERY flawed. I keep cell phones for YEARS especially when I have one that works well. I also don’t throw them away. I still have my first cell phone
Sanyo SCP-6200 
Your power usages seems WEIRD to me. I use a power hungry windows mobile smart phone (Touch Pro 2) and I use it a LOT. I charge it sometimes twice a day but usually once a day.
1500mah battery. so 1.5 amps a day (assume full depletion to keep the math easy and to be generous) or 7.5 watts of power.
2737.5 watts of electricity. or what a 75watt light bulb would use in 1.5 days.
your trying to tell me a 75 watt light bulb uses 32 gallons of gasoline to a 75watt light bulb for 1.5 days? your out of your mind and your math is 100% FUBAR man.
I can run my 5000 watt genny at 50% load (2500 watts) for 10 hours on 5 gallons of gas. so 18 gallons of gas roughly to run 2500 watts for 36 hours. thats more than 33 75 watt light bulbs for the same 36 hours.
and I only used 18 gallons of gas almost HALF what you claim ONE light bulb would consume in that same time and thats using an very inefficient home GENERATOR not grid power.
your numbers are hogwash. REGULAR cell phones use even less power. My phone is one of the most power hungry phones on the market!
if we used my rugged sanyo it uses 1700mah in 6-10 DAYS depending on usage.
How much do that land line consume? how much power is lost in the wires (electricity is pushed through phone lines to power the phones)
We have NO land line in our homes.
As for data transfer thats hogwash too unless your counting server side energy usage AND that gasoline usage is for ALL users combined??
because I know I can transfer 1gig of data in about 20 minutes there is no way the system I am using (my phone and the server) used 7.3 gallons of gas in that 20 minutes.