Monday, 29 June 2009

iPhone will work with micro-usb charger?

About time!

How stupid is to have a new charger with every phone you buy, and all of them perfectly incompatible with each other (even within the same brand) ?

Apple has so far been consistent in using the its own proprietary dock connector across the entire iPod and iPhone line, but apparently this is going to change – at least in Europe.
Macrumors reports of an agreement between ten mobile phone manufacturers (and Apple being one of them) to start using micro-usb connectors on the phone.
That doesn't mean that you need ot have amicro-usb on your laptop, in fact it doesn't matter what is on the charger-side, but the phon itself will have a micro-usb socket just like that of a PSP or the Korg Nano controllers.
This will pave the way for a green revolution where phone and charger are sold separately so that you can use an old charger when you get a new phone, less packaging will be used and of course manufacturers will make a bit more money by selling chargers separately.

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