Open Standards for Cell Phone Components

PoisonousPhat writes "STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Nokia and ARM have formed the Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance (MIPI), who seek to define open standards for cell phone components. Forget that expensive camera phone, just plug in a third-party device." Update: 07/30 18:13 GMT by T : Thanks to Alain Mellan for the link to STMicroelectronics.

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You Guys are slow..

[linuxislandsucks]

You guys are slow.. I broke the story here:

http://www.freeroller.net/page/shareme/Weblog

yesterday morning..

Standards for Cell Phones!

[Anonymous Coward]

I see the need that Cell Phone standards need to be established. It's really, really stupid that there is a new charger connection for each cell phone released. For example Nokia has a variety of cell phones however you can't guarantee that I can use a Nokia charger on a Nokia phone as the charges are model specific.

I'd like to see some standard physical interfaces on phones. Camera interface is the same on all phones buy 1 camera and you can use it on your current and future phone. Charger interface is standard buy 1 charger and use it on whatever brand and whatever model you want to. Keyboard interface is standard. Those phones who want to allow you to use a keyboard always use this connector. Computer connections standard -- most computers come w/ USB or Firewire why do we have 10 different cables for 10 different phones all of which connect via USB?

I understand that companies want your money and by making special connectors that cell phone companies make more $$. But, come on let's do some industry standard designs!

Hmm, 23 hours later...

[garcia]

Interesting, I only beat them by 23 hours.

Re:Missing

[Ilgaz]

Nokia is everything to make a standard suscessful :)