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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.

2 of 302 comments (clear)

  1. US by weems · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wish they would do this in the US. It's dumb that each company has their own chargers.

    1. Re:US by Kral_Blbec · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I would guess that most companies are going to bring it over to the US by default. If they have to design the EU versions with micro usb then hopefully they wont reinvent the wheel to redesign it for a US release.