Universal Phone Charger
Posted October 29th, 2009 by simon
It seems surprising that this doesn’t already exist but the competition between phone companies has been fierce and each one has released their own brand specific phone charger. It is about time there was a universal phone charger and the good news is that the International Telecommunication Union have just approved one. Apparently a frightening 51,000 tonnes of phone chargers are produced each year and most people ditch their old charger when they change phones.
These new energy efficient chargers will last you much longer and help to reduce the environmental impact of mobile phones. The charger uses a micro-USB port. It is due to be released early in 2010 and as yet it is not compulsory for phone manufacturers to opt in but many of them have seen the sense and signed up. There is no doubt this is just a common sense idea and with a bit of luck all the big phone manufacturers will sign up soon.
