Star Standardised Mobile Phone Charger Coming to EU, Apple Joins
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Jun 2009 21:22 UTC, submitted by Governa
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless 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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RE[2]: Yankee doodle dandy
by Soulbender on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 10:04 UTC in reply to "RE: Yankee doodle dandy"
Soulbender
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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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