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Standardised Mobile Phone Charger Coming to EU, Apple Joins

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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Yankee doodle dandy

by sbergman27 on Mon 29th Jun 2009 23:14 UTC

Member since:
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

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RE: Yankee doodle dandy

by darknexus on Tue 30th Jun 2009 00:21 in reply to "Yankee doodle dandy"

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2008-07-15

I live in the U.S. What the hell are *we* supposed to do?

Get the hell out of here ASAP maybe?
MOre seriously though, this might affect us here as well if it proves to be easier to just standardize on MicroUSB altogether for these companies instead of producing one sort of connector for the US, another for the EU, etc.

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RE: Yankee doodle dandy

by tyrione on Wed 1st Jul 2009 00:40 in reply to "Yankee doodle dandy"

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2005-11-21

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.

You must be very young, but then again so is the EU.

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RE[2]: Yankee doodle dandy

by sbergman27 on Wed 1st Jul 2009 00:49 in reply to "RE: Yankee doodle dandy"

Member since:
2005-07-24

You must be very young, but then again so is the EU.

Not young. But slightly lazy in my phrasing. I wondered if anyone would point that out. There was a Europe before the EU. And I've always been impressed by it.

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RE[2]: Yankee doodle dandy

by Soulbender on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 10:04 in reply to "RE: Yankee doodle dandy"

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2005-08-18

You must be very young, but then again so is the EU.

And so is the U.S.A.

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