EU to have universal mobile phone charger by 2010

• Pitot

  2 Jul 09, 07:15

  The world’s biggest mobile phone makers announced a deal today agreeing to a universal standard phone charger that will work on millions of handsets made by different manufacturers.

  Until now, phone makers have included a charger with every new handset, often with each charger only working on one type of device. From next year, everything from the iPhone and the BlackBerry, to phones made by Nokia and Sony Ericsson, will be made to work with a single charger that will work across many different brands of phone.

  Ten companies, including Apple, Motorola and Samsung, have pledged to start making phones that can be charged using a single charger from next year. For phones sold in Europe, the manufacturers will adopt the micro USB connector across all their devices, already the standard on handsets such as the BlackBerry.

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  Companies include;

  Nokia

  Samsung

  LG

  Motorola

  Apple

  Sony Ericsson

   

  Ok great, hope this will be rolled out globally.

   

  
  

• the Bear

  2 Jul 09, 08:20

  that'll be good..

  and bad...

  stolen phones are easily used with universal chargers..

  while legit ones can be also easly charged using other people's chargers..

• lianamaster

  3 Jul 09, 09:24

  Convenience does have its limitations afterall.