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Handset Vendors Plug Micro-USB Charge Ports
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.
There will be an ioctl to the usb driver to control the power output... then some slashdot weenie will write a small gtk app with a slider you can dock on your tool bar to adjust the power output up and down, and then yet another group of slashdotters will put a wiki together documenting the correcet power settings for every cellphone ever made, even ones not capable of usb charging, just in case you wanted to mod your old motorola.
'Newer' is always a tricky thing. Discarding the idea of 'new to you' as something your not using there are a few other things that could have happened.
Older stock that sat around in a warehouse or even a unit that still was manufactured recently but was the last run of the rev right before they implemented that change.
Saying 'newer' is not really saying much.
Really, I know what I'm doing...Ohhhh, look at the shiny buttons!
Oh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Touch#Models
Two models there champ. Why is it you 'proud conservatives' are always such failures when it comes to even the most basic fact checking?
Really, I know what I'm doing...Ohhhh, look at the shiny buttons!