Standard Cellphone Chargers For Europeans

k33l0r writes "The European Commission is confident that all major cellphone companies have reached an agreement on a standard cellphone charger for consumers within the EU. 'People will not have to throw away their charger whenever they buy a new phone,' said EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen. Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Apple, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, Research in Motion, Samsung and Texas Instruments have all signed the agreement."

Comments

Re:So what's it gonna be?

[Freetardo Jones]

read the damn article.

Hahaha. You must be new here.

Re:So what's it gonna be?

[furby076]

Hahaha. You must be new here.

;) Just sometimes feel like an old man holding out for an ideal age where people read the article (or at least admit they didn't). Then again I still hold out for the day skittles will pop sunshine out of my ass.

God damned liberal communists

[meist3r]

Limiting the free market 'n shit ...

Three cheers for government regulation!

[quax]

C'mon market fetishist mod me down!

Re:How about the damn US?

[vishbar]

The boss got angry when he saw a 4-hour call to a 900 number.

Re:So what's it gonna be?

[Kadagan AU]

2. Will this be coordinated with the Chinese standard? If both the EU and China agree on a standard, India and Japan can be convinced to adopt it. Leaving America to figure out which direction it wants to go.

If the metric system vs. SAE is any gauge, we'll use our own thing.

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Re:So what's it gonna be?

[Ihmhi]

Günter Verheugen

I don't think you could pronounce that name without ripping out your tongue.