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    ITU approves standard for universal phone charger

    Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
    The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), aka the telecomm branch of the United Nations, has recently approved a standard for a universal phone charger. The standard is based on the GSM Association’s earlier suggestion for a Micro-USB-based universal mobile phone charger. This is really good news for anyone who has been following the ‘universal phone charger‘ story. [...]

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  • Support for universal micro-USB phone chargers grows with ITU approval

    Support for universal micro-USB phone chargers grows with ITU approval

    Posted on October 23, 2009 | No Comments

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    The entire wireless industry has been congealing around micro-USB as a universal charging standard for a while now, and we've taken yet another important step toward completely ridding the world of bizarre proprietary connectors (you know what we're talking about, Samsung) with ITU ratification this week. The UN-backed International Telecommunication Union isn't just making the move to make our lives a little less hellish, though -- it's also a strategic environmental move on a couple fronts, since universal chargers mean consumers will be able to hold on to a single charger over the life of several phones and modern chargers are far more power efficient than models that are even just a couple years old. The ITU move isn't binding or compulsory, but there's enough momentum behind micro-USB at this point that it's pretty much going to happen for any phone you'd ever consider buying going forward, and many of the big players have already hopped on the bandwagon. We won't lie, we won't miss the days of buying a $40 car charger that powers, like, two LG models.

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    Support for universal micro-USB phone chargers grows with ITU approval originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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