Cellphone Manufacturers to Standardize Charger Plugs

Nokia chargerYou know the feeling. You’ve just upgraded to a brand new phone, and you suddenly can’t use your previous phone’s charger because of mismatched plugs. Nor can you use chargers from your other, older phones, because they’re all of different brands!

With similar brands–such as Nokia, for instance–you could swap chargers across models. But most other brands will change charger ports and plugs as new models are released. And of course, you cannot use chargers across different brands.

This is such a pain in the backside, especially for people who own and use more than one phone (of different brands).

The Japanese mobile phone providers and manufacturers are in the lead in trying to unify mobile charger ports, and hopefully the rest of the world will follow suit.

The industry bodies of cell phone service providers and makers have informed the industry ministry of plans to unify specifications of cell phone sockets and battery charger plugs around 2010
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The standardization would enable cell phone users to continue to use the same chargers even after replacing phones with ones marketed by different service providers, they said. At present, the specifications used for cell phones’ sockets by NTT DoCoMo Inc, KDDI Corp and Vodafone KK differ and their chargers are incompatible.

They should come out with something like the USB for the computer, which is standard across platforms and manufacturers. This would definitely make the world a better place. I’ve had my share of leaving my non-standard charger at home and running flat on the move, when everyone else is using a Nokia, and can borrow a charger from practically anyone.

July 12th, 2006 Posted by J. Angelo Racoma in News at 2:13 pm Comment Now! »
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