...and that is a very welcome development indded. Mobile phone companies involved in this development include Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, T-Mobile, Orange, 3, AT&T and Vodafone.
The new chargers will use the standard micro-USB connector as the common charging interface and many of us will know them from digital cameras.
As they will become standard, eventually chargers won't be supplied with new mobiles because customers will already have compatible chargers and it'll save on electronic waste having to be recycled or ending up in landfill. There's more here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7894763.stm.
Right now, I'll bet that many of us have quite a few old, unusable and incompatible mobile chargers lying around and hopefully that'll become a thing of the past.
The new chargers will use the standard micro-USB connector as the common charging interface and many of us will know them from digital cameras.
As they will become standard, eventually chargers won't be supplied with new mobiles because customers will already have compatible chargers and it'll save on electronic waste having to be recycled or ending up in landfill. There's more here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7894763.stm.
Right now, I'll bet that many of us have quite a few old, unusable and incompatible mobile chargers lying around and hopefully that'll become a thing of the past.