China demands standardized cellphone chargers! It’s one demand that makes perfect sense. One of my annoyances during national service is to forget my charge and no one has my phone’s charger!
I am using a Samsung phone and it’s so unique that other Samsung phone users don’t have my charger too. There should have standardized it damn long ago. It would be great if it uses the small USB port for charging. Charging from a computer would be a whole lot easier.
Unified chargers for all cell phones in China
Cell phone manufacturers will have to implant unified access on one side the chargers that can be connected to all brands of cell phones, the People’s Daily said on its Website, citing a standard issued by China’s Ministry of Information Industry yesterday.
The access is close to the principle of a Universal Serial Bus (USB), said the report.
“The standard will stop the waste of cell phone chargers dating back to the time when a charger could serve only one brand of cell phone, or even one type of phone in the brand,” said an official with the ministry.
“It will also lower the cost of cell phones and reduce electronic waste,” the official said.
Source: Shanghai Daily
I hope Singapore would adopt this too.
[via CrunchGear]
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