All Cellfones to Have Same Charging plug

Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, LG, and Nokia have agreed to use micro USB as a charging-plug standard for phones. Your days of buying a bagful of accessories every time you switch phones have come to an end. Well, not quite. You will still have to toss out all your mini USB chargers, as this decision in truth indicates a rejection of that budding de facto standard. Yep, all the carriers and accessories makers will have one last chance to profit before the standard is in place.

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This is really good news .... but i think its gonna be some time before this becomes really helpful

excellent newz indeed !!!

It would have been wonderful if there was a single unified standard of memory cards, chargers and batteries for all mobile devices...

Excellent , peace at Last

:breathes a sigh of relief and gives a sympathetic look to all chargers around:

awesome news. thanks for sharing

Dunoo how much time will it take to come into effect...
A very good move indeed...

R

i hope it'll be available for 5900 my next upgrade

Good news.
Now people won't "ask do you have <Brand name> Charger?"
They will simply come & take yours without ur notice.

I like the idea of universal.

Great move... Hopefully they ll also integrate the data cable with the charger now..

pathiks said:
Great move... Hopefully they ll also integrate the data cable with the charger now..

better not if it disable sony ericsson phone's flashing features

its a good news

iMav said:
Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, LG, and Nokia have agreed to use micro USB as a charging-plug standard for phones. Your days of buying a bagful of accessories every time you switch phones have come to an end. Well, not quite. You will still have to toss out all your mini USB chargers, as this decision in truth indicates a rejection of that budding de facto standard. Yep, all the carriers and accessories makers will have one last chance to profit before the standard is in place.

*gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/09/Mini_v_Micro.jpg

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This is really good news .... but i think its gonna be some time before this becomes really helpful

News is good but how we have to wait for this to come into effect??

maybe 5 years at least to fully see this unified charger into place??

i guess until the stock produced is sold out completely.

Now finally moto and SE users can stop banging their heads over the lack of availability of their chargers in remote areas of India.

finally UNIVERSAL CHARGERS KOOL

quite a relieving news

Laut ke buddhu ghar ko aaye

shukhar hai bhagwan ka.. companies ne meri baat sun li.. main kitni der se jeh suggest kar reha tha ..and now they have taken up my advice as reality

Awesome...

W

about time!

Thank god for this! I don't know why they even started with these different plugs. I hope those digital camera manufacturers also get some sense knocked into their heads and make a standard USB port for all cameras...

Koooool

hey guys but that means we can only use that wid the new phones right, not wid our old phones? unless there wud be some kind of converter that is

Good move, now if only they could provide an option that we can charge using this Mini-USB connector by also connecting to PC like Apple lets us charge iPod. Just that no propriety connector.

Same plug to charge & data transfer at USB 2.0 speeds

It would have been better if they had all converted to mini USB.

@GX, Sony Ericsson phones likes K300i can be charged through USB ports. This is really nice for people who use GPRS for net on PC.

BTW, great move.

Every1 forgot a thin. How clean our side tables would be. Just a single charger hanging for the whole family/group (hostelites)

it is good news , one compatibility problem is solved ...
thanks