Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Jun 2009 21:22 UTC, submitted by Governa
Apple, LG, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm, Research in Motion, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Texas Instruments have agreed to standardise their smartphone chargers in Europe using micro-USB. "The European Commission announced today that 10 mobile phone producers, which represent some 90 percent of the mobile phone market in the European Union, have signed a voluntary agreement to use standardized chargers for mobile phones using a micro-USB connector. The agreement addresses the EC's concern that mobile phone chargers create needless electronic waste." A single charger for everything! It almost brings tears to my eyes. Honestly. Even Apple. There it is. The tear.
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2005-07-24
I live in the U.S. What the hell are *we* supposed to do?
I know. We've made our bed: Lie in it.
Kudos to the EU, who have always been smarter than us, over my lifetime, at least.
Edited 2009-06-29 23:14 UTC