[Osiris]

Source Europe To Get Standard Phone Chargers

Non-standard phone chargers are one of the most annoying things of cell phones. The lifecycle of a cell phone is usually two years. That’s when the contract ends and a new cell phone is offered as an incentive to stay with the cell phone provider for another two year period. Cell phone manufacturers use their own phone chargers which means that buying a new cell phone from a different company will usually mean that a different phone charger as well.
That’s bad for the environment either way as you end up with two different phone chargers or two similar ones as they are always sold with cell phones. It is also bad if you need to recharge the battery of your cell phone at a friends house only to find out that the phone charger is not compatible with your cell phone.

[wafflehammer]

so I take it that this means all the chargers will be the same? That's neat. I see a lot of people complain when companies use proprietary chargers....

I don't see the environment thing as an issue though :\

[ricanflow]

Yup, all chargers would have to be the same connector and voltage.

[Keyboard Cowboy]

About bloody time. It annoys me how some manufactures seem to change Chargers or other adapters just so people need to purchase more of the same thing again.

I when through 2 nokias thinking that i was able to use the same data cable. Funny thing was that that DKU2 and DKU5 data cable are physically the same size, however Nokia has done something to make DKU2 redundant with the newer phone.

Samsung. My father has a sunsung. The prepaid I needed to pick up last month was a sunsung. 2 different phone chargers.

Originally Posted by wafflehammer

I don't see the environment thing as an issue though :\

Are you nuts? It's a big environmental thing as a issue. Just like mobile phones, i am sure that just about every second person as more than one charger for their mobile phone. As soon as the phone gets replaced, both phone and perfectly working charger is tossed away.

[Poizen22]

Originally Posted by Keyboard Cowboy

About bloody time. It annoys me how some manufactures seem to change Chargers or other adapters just so people need to purchase more of the same thing again.

I when through 2 nokias thinking that i was able to use the same data cable. Funny thing was that that DKU2 and DKU5 data cable are physically the same size, however Nokia has done something to make DKU2 redundant with the newer phone.

Samsung. My father has a sunsung. The prepaid I needed to pick up last month was a sunsung. 2 different phone chargers.



Are you nuts? It's a big environmental thing as a issue. Just like mobile phones, i am sure that just about every second person as more than one charger for their mobile phone. As soon as the phone gets replaced, both phone and perfectly working charger is tossed away.

haha or the charger goes into a box of wires then 5 years down the line your looking for something and your like wtf was this for lol.

[Yamikotai]

Lol this was news in the UK long ago But I am extremely glad, many benefits and micro-USB is much smaller than some phone chargers out there.