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Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard

Posted by timothy on from the wish-they-seemed-stronger dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The European Commission has put into effect a June 2009 agreement stating that major cellphone manufacturers should standardize their charging/data connection ports to the popular Micro-USB format. CEN-CENELEC and ETSI provided the standards by which these 14 companies will abide to make cell phone recharging and data transfer easy." Apple may even bring the next-gen iPad along for the ride.

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  1. Re:About damn time. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hi! Libertarian screaming bloody murder here. Oh, also a Mac girl. The MagSafe connector is one of most brilliant things about my Mac. I am SO GLAD that my computer has never been dragged kicking and screaming off the table when someone has walked across the cable.

    Of course if we'd standardized on the horrible AC connector that most laptops use then I'd never have benefitted from this innovation.

    Oh! Bloody Murder! How selfish is me.