From Pogue’s Posts. He discussed Mobile phone manufacturers unifying their power chargers. I hope they unify the other jacks too – earphones specifically. And why does it take till 2012? Anyway – a good move.
Who wants to bet Apple doesn’t change real quick? A safe bet I reckon
It’s also going to change. The GSM Association (a cellphone-company trade group) announced this week that its members have agreed to settle on a single, standard charger design for all cellphones—MicroUSB—and will aim for January 1, 2012 as the deadline (http://bit.ly/f9xqG).
So far, companies like AT&T, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, T-Mobile and Vodafone have signed the agreement. (It’s not clear to me whether non-GSM carriers like Verizon and Sprint will be part of this deal.)
But when you contemplate all the pointless, duplicated manufacturing, shipping, packaging and discarding of all those 51,000 tons of crummy black power bricks every year, this is the best news we gadget freaks have heard in a long time.
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