The world’s biggest mobile phone makers announced a deal
today agreeing to a universal standard phone charger that will work
on millions of handsets made by different manufacturers.
Until now, phone makers have included a charger with every
new handset, often with each charger only working on one type of
device. From next year, everything from the iPhone and the
BlackBerry, to phones made by Nokia and Sony Ericsson, will be made
to work with a single charger that will work across many different
brands of phone.
Ten companies, including Apple, Motorola and Samsung, have
pledged to start making phones that can be charged using a single
charger from next year. For phones sold in Europe, the
manufacturers will adopt the micro USB connector across all their
devices, already the standard on handsets such as the
BlackBerry.
Source
Companies include;
Nokia
Samsung
LG
Motorola
Apple
Sony Ericsson
Ok great, hope this will be rolled out globally.
