One Charger For All Mobile Phones
By Sarang
This is the dream of all mobile phone users. It is really annoying that each mobile phone manufacturer has its own sets of chargers which are totally incompatible with each other. Every now and then something happens to the mobile phone manufacturers and they decide to change the specifications of the charger. Every time you go and buy a mobile phone you have to pay for the charger as well because there is no other option.
This all will be changing in a few years time. Finally the mess of wires for different models of mobile phones will be history and there will be single charger serving all. In the office if your mobile phone battery charging gets low you will not have to start searching for people with exactly the same model of mobile phone that you have, rather any available charger of any manufacturer will do the job.
On 17 February 2009 the GSM Association along with 17 of leading mobile phone operators/manufacturers have announced that by 1st Jan 2012 most of their mobile phones will be using a Universal Charger. The 17 members who are actively working to make this happen are LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, mobilkom austria, Orange, Qualcomm, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telenor, Telstra, 3 Group, AT&T, KTF, T-Mobile and Vodafone. This effort has been going on for quite some time but for the first time a fixed target date has been set.
According to the decision the universal charger interface will be Micro-USB. The decision about the interface was taken in September 2007 by Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP). OMTP is a forum which includes the leading mobile phone operators and manufacturers. Micro-USB is a very slim interface which was introduced by the USB Implementors Forum in early 2007. This interface provides the capability of data communication as well as charging the device.
I am looking forward to this new era of mobile phones and hope to see more standardization.
Sarang Recommends:
- Animal Fat to Fuel
- Handbook for Life
This is the dream of all mobile phone users. It is really annoying that each mobile phone manufacturer has its own sets of chargers which are totally incompatible with each other. Every now and then something happens to the mobile phone manufacturers and they decide to change the specifications of the charger. Every time you go and buy a mobile phone you have to pay for the charger as well because there is no other option.
This all will be changing in a few years time. Finally the mess of wires for different models of mobile phones will be history and there will be single charger serving all. In the office if your mobile phone battery charging gets low you will not have to start searching for people with exactly the same model of mobile phone that you have, rather any available charger of any manufacturer will do the job.
On 17 February 2009 the GSM Association along with 17 of leading mobile phone operators/manufacturers have announced that by 1st Jan 2012 most of their mobile phones will be using a Universal Charger. The 17 members who are actively working to make this happen are LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, mobilkom austria, Orange, Qualcomm, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telenor, Telstra, 3 Group, AT&T, KTF, T-Mobile and Vodafone. This effort has been going on for quite some time but for the first time a fixed target date has been set.
According to the decision the universal charger interface will be Micro-USB. The decision about the interface was taken in September 2007 by Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP). OMTP is a forum which includes the leading mobile phone operators and manufacturers. Micro-USB is a very slim interface which was introduced by the USB Implementors Forum in early 2007. This interface provides the capability of data communication as well as charging the device.
I am looking forward to this new era of mobile phones and hope to see more standardization.
Sarang Recommends:
- Animal Fat to Fuel
- Handbook for Life
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