A Standard for Charging your Phone!
The variety, and might I make up a word, weird-ocity, of proprietary connectors for individual phones to charge from, has never made any sense. It has always seemed to be a bit of a “make it up as you go along” sort of randomness. Maybe dependent on designers, or device manufacturers, thinking they could make users retain a branded device because the proprietary charger would be re-usable with latter devices. Although that sort of continuity hasn’t evolved. In that, I’m looking at two Samsung phones, that have different connectors. My Moto Razr had a mini usb connector, my Tilt has a Mini usb connector, my old Nokia had one of those funky proprietary connectors. iPhone has a proprietary connection as does the iPod. It doesn’t make sense,why can’t we all just get along.
Somewhere, in a land far, far away, someone hit upon the idea that it would be sensible to use one connection to charge all phones. Thus relieving the frustration of finding the right cable for your phone on any particular day, and reducing the cost of a phone, by adding a standard option to them all.
It seems like this has taken a long time for a decision to be made, but pretty much all of the major phone manufacturers have agreed, with the glaring exception of HTC and HP.
This is something that really has to happen, and not only from a user point of view. Standardising of the sync/charge connection, inevitably reduces the cost of device manufacture. One thing that strikes me here, if you make devices, you will not have to package a charger with every new device, therefore saving money. Which hopefully means the device cost up front, is reduced. For the User, a little bit of reduced redundancy, less chargers to throw away/ recycle.
A new EU norm should be created soon, requiring next-gen mobile phones to use a universal Micro USB socket. This would eliminate “unwanted phone accessories”, allowing users to charge phones made by different manufacturers with the same charger.
Hope this rolls out sooner rather than later!
microUSB Phone Charger Standard Agreed Upon
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