Handset Vendors Plug Micro-USB Charge Ports

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @04:47AM from the kicking-and-screaming-to-the-briar-patch dept.

ketan324 points to a Register story touting an agreement among several phone makers to settle on Micro USB for their phones' charging ports, writing "It's about time for these cellphone manufacturers to wise up and design a universal phone charger. Although many manufacturers have already 'standardized' to a mini-USB interface, there are many more out there who use proprietary adapters. I wonder how Apple will feel about this? Will they finally realize that their oh-so-special adapter is nothing more than a fudged USB interface?" No legislation required.

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Re:oh-so-special? by Midnight+Thunder · 2009-02-17 05:30 · Score: 0, Redundant

The Apple dock-connector audio-out is (as far as I am aware) raw decoded audio at max volume.
This is not really much different from line-out on many devices. Line out is not to be confused with the 3.5mm jack used for head phones which is volume controlled.

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Re:No legislation required.... by DavidTC · 2009-02-17 10:35 · Score: 0, Redundant

EPIC TROLL.

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