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Offline Dracho

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Cell Phone Makers Agrees to Use One Battery Charger
« on: June 30, 2009, 12:06:04 pm »
About time!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529526,00.html

The world's biggest mobile phone makers announced a deal Monday agreeing to a universal standard phone charger that will work on millions of handsets made by different manufacturers.
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Re: Cell Phone Makers Agrees to Use One Battery Charger
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2009, 02:02:07 pm »
Now how about a battery standard for them all?  Then add camera, PDA's and laptop battery and charger standards. 
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Re: Cell Phone Makers Agrees to Use One Battery Charger
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2009, 07:32:59 am »
Oh great! I just finally got that embarrassing drywall splotch covered with all my different chargers and proprietary data cables; maybe I can use them as squirrel and rabbit snares when the economy collapses.
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Re: Cell Phone Makers Agrees to Use One Battery Charger
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2009, 07:38:57 am »
I forgot to mention cordles power tools and yard tools to the list needing standard batteries and chargers.

Between my parents they have 2 scooters and an electric wheelchair.  Two use the same batteries but their charger connections are all different.  grrr.
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Re: Cell Phone Makers Agrees to Use One Battery Charger
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2009, 07:51:16 am »
NPR reported this agreement holds only in Europe...
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Re: Cell Phone Makers Agrees to Use One Battery Charger
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2009, 03:12:09 pm »
Quote from: toasty0 on July 01, 2009, 07:51:16 am
NPR reported this agreement holds only in Europe...

Good chance it would carry over.  Would not be a wise idea to have multi version of a phone (one for Europe, one for the states), that adds a multitude of complexity to inventory control for each phone.

But then, some of these businesses haven't always showed the most smarts all the time.
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