Tryst With Destiny

My family believes in promoting competition ergo the four mobile phones that we have all belong to different companies. This means that each one of us can have a phone which suits our personality. It also means that we have four different chargers in our house. This creates a real mess. This problem becomes even more compound when we travel as we have to carry four chargers and make sure that none of them are ever left behind. I have often wondered that why is this necessary. Mobile phones are basically all similar devices and have similar power requirement. Why is is that they cannot have same chargers.

Evidently I am not alone who thinks this way. European commission today announced that that 10 mobile phone producers, which represent some 90 percent of the mobile phone market in the European Union, have signed a voluntary agreement to use standardized chargers for mobile phones using a micro-USB connector.

What it means is that from now on all data based phones would have one standard charger. This way the clutter would be greatly reduced.

Although at the moment only applicable to EU we can safely assume that shortly other geographies will also get adopt this standard. Another benefit of this standard would be that phones would be sold without a charger and you can continue to use your old charger with the new phone thereby reducing wastage and indeed the cost you have to pay for the phone.

Gung Ho EU.