To find out if you are a good student of the smartphone environmental impact in hand, there is now an application."My smartphone imprint" wants to make you aware of your CO₂ emissions and the impact of your consumption in a fun way, but with the necessary reserves.

My smartphone imprint // Source: Bouygues Telecom

Surf the internet, read your emails, send them, watch videos, play a little, listen to music, take photos and share them on the networks, start again ... These gestures have become our daily smartphone in hand.With the permanent improvement of mobile networks in 4G and now 5G, access facilitated to a Wi-Fi network the rest of the time, we tend to lose sight of the fact that all this has repercussions on the planet.

This is a bit of awareness that the operator Bouygues Telecom wants us by launching its application my smartphone imprint. Celle-ci est ouverte à tous (pas besoin d’être abonné à un forfait Bouygues Telecom ou B&You) et veut inciter à réduire sa consommation de données mobiles afin d’en réduire progressivement l’impact environnemental au quotidien.

An awareness by figures

Just install it and give it access to your smartphone.The app will be responsible for dissecting, analyzing and taking stock of your internet consumption in 3G/4G/5G mobility and Wi-Fi by displaying your carbon footprint.

My smartphone footprint

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The app will measure your CO₂ emissions according to your Internet uses, be it the consumption of your package that your uses in Wi-Fi.And this, whatever your operator.And so that you can better achieve, equivalences are presented in days of light LED bulbs, in number of polluting vehicles, etc..

All useful information appears as soon as the app is welcomed.The biggest figure tells you your consumption of CO₂ gram and the colorful bar below you positions you compared to your objectives and the average of the users of the app.To set your monthly goal, just move the star -shaped cursor.

Le tableau de bord de l’app mon empreinte smartphone // Source : Bouygues Telecom mon empreinte smartphone // Source : Bouygues Telecom mon empreinte smartphone propose des conseils // Source : Bouygues Telecom

In the “My progression” part, you may have an overview of the distribution of your consumption and your results in relation to your objectives, and even readjust them if you had been too ambitious.

The carbon impact is calculated according to the methodology of the association The Shift Project and the ADEME ecological transition agency.This is where you have to take this data with a little hindsight and put a downside: the methodology of The Shift Project was contradicted by the past, to give erroneous or approximate figures.

Tips to limit your carbon footprint

Mais My smartphone footprint ne se contente pas d’être un tableau de bord, l’application veut aussi être un conseil et un compagnon dans la gestion de votre consommation.For this, a section is devoted to "eco-gestures" tips.

You will find practical advice to try to adopt a more responsible attitude (use WiFi more frequently than 4G/5G, extinguish your smartphone, etc.).But some advice can nevertheless be rather approximate as using an HD flow instead of 4K, something that ... does not change anything since the video is read from the datacenter anyway.

Advice that will appear basic enough for many well -informed users, too naive for others, but who always serve as a recall bite for all useful purposes ... lots of small decisions which, cumulative, cannot hurtthe planet.

A part is dedicated is also for sustainable smartphone solutions with recycling, reconditioned or how to repair or recycle your device.

This initiative starts from a good intention.It can also seem quite paradoxical on the part of an operator whose profession remains to sell the 5G mobile connection (less good for the planet than WiFi therefore ... but Bouygues also has fiber) and smartphones.The operator also remains unclear on the use made of user data, some being potentially customers of other telecom companies.

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