Standardizing chargers and connectors

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Standardization long has been needed in the mobile phone manufacture. I hate switching telephone manufacturers simply considering that means buying a new travel charger and spare charger for the function. I'm probably not alone in that I take a drawer full of Motorola, Samsung, and Treo chargers whose corresponding phones have been banished to the recycling bin.

Luckily, this may be most to change. An initiative backed by mobile phone manufacturers as well every bit operators will result in a universal charger based on the micro-USB interface for new mobile phones. Read on later the break to run into what manufacture leaders have signed off on this initiative, who led the way to standardization two years ago — and who'south unlikely to to bring together in.

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The initiative for micro USB standardization was introduced by the GSMA, an association representing the worldwide mobile communications industry, and calls for standardization to exist in place by January 2022. Representatives from mobile phone manufacturers including LG, Motorola, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung and Sony Ericsson (what? No Apple tree?) as well every bit service providers such as AT&T, KTF, Mobilkom Austria, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telenor, Telstra, T-Mobile and Vodafone are supporting this initiative that is non just designed to establish an industry standard but also to reduce waste and lower costs.

Nokia sees the reduction of waste related to chargers as the biggest advantage with the initiative but isn't prepare to say when it volition ship its first universal charger. The company will provide both the universal charger and its standard charger during a transitional menses, according to a spokeswoman at Nokia. This should make our friends at Nokia Experts happy, and while this is welcomed news, it'due south not a new concept.

In 2007, the Open Mobile Concluding Platform (OMTP), a forum dominated past operators but including manufacturers such equally Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and LG, announced that its members had agreed on micro-USB as the future mutual connector. The OMTP statement was a step in the correct direction but lacked the backing the electric current GSMA initiative has.

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While China'south track record for man rights is lacking, the Chinese government may have been the commencement to establish micro-USB standardization. In 2006, the Chinese government mandated that set a single national standard on mobile phone chargers sold in the country to avert waste matter and to lower costs. At the time, China had almost 450 million jail cell phone subscribers, with upward to 100 million replacing their phones every twelvemonth with the chargers being thrown out with the cell phones. That's a lot of waste that was eliminated with the standardization. China predicted the motility would relieve approximately 2.4 billion Yuan ($306 million U.Due south.) annually.

So we all can breathe a sigh of relief in that our "junk" drawers will become lighter now that we don't have to go out and buy a new set of chargers every time we swap out phones. Now if we can simply become the 3.5mm headphone jack to be standardized, we can eliminate a bunch of old headsets also!

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