There’s good news for everyone charging their phones in Europe. It looks like there’s a phone charging standard coming to all those European handset owners. The European Commission has received today confirmation for that micro-USB charging socket from the most important names in the mobile business. Nokia, Sony, Ericsson, Motorola, Apple, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, RIM, Samsung and Texas Instruments are all going to play ball and we should expect them to launch devices ready to be charged via a micro-USB charger sometime next year. On the long run the micro-UBS standard could be adopted by other markets too since CTIA, OMTP and the GSM Association also support it. Can’t wait for the day when I won’t hate myself for forgetting a certain phone charger! What are your thoughts on this?

via Yahoo

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Wouldn’t it be really convenient if every phone maker used the same type of phone charger to power our phones? You won’t need to buy a new charger every time your forget yours at home.

The GSM Association has announced that it is working on such a solution together with other 17 partner companies. A common format is scheduled to arrive by 2012. As for a connector, we’re expecting micro-USB to be chosen. Unfortunately not everyone has chosen to sign the agreement yet. Apple for one is missing for example.

via BBC

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