Most people have, somewhere in their house, a drawer or cabinet full of old electronic adapters and other "junk" taking up copious amounts of space. Sadly, I have a whole closet full of computers, monitors, printers, scanners, and boxes and bags of electronic chargers, adapters, and cables.Somewhere in that mess is a whole box full of old cell phone charges. I keep them simply because I may, and have in the past, need them again one day for new cell phones. They come in handy for family and friends as well.
Our "pack rat" problems may soon disappear as a universal cell phone charger is set to hit the market in 2012. The GSMA (Group Special Mobile Association) represents more than 750 of the world's cell phone operators and have made the announcement about the new chargers.
The plan is to have all cell phone manufacturers produce cell phones with same charger port; micro USB.
The obvious benefit from these devices would be the elimination of the need for multiple cell phone chargers. Consumers could buy one charger that would last forever (or until broken) and work on all phones. Another benefit would be the dramatic reduction in production of cell phone charges. This would ultimately eliminate 51,000 to 82,000 tons of cell phone chargers per year as well as up to 21 tons of greenhouse gases.
The universal cell phone chargers should be available to consumers by January 2012.
Companies already signed up for the plan include: Sony, Motoralla, LG, AT&T, Samsung, T-Mobile, Nokia, & Qualcomm.
Now if I could only figure out what to do with that box of chargers I have.....
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The only thing that comes to mind is: "How in the world did it take them this long to collaborate on this?!?!" We have been needing this since the inception of cell phones.
ReplyDeleteThat is a good idea it is pointless for every cell phone company to have a different charger. This should have been thought of long ago.
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