“Hey Tam, My N8 battery just died, do you have a Charger?”
“No, I have an iPhone and it’s charger won’t fit into your N8.”
“Damn..!! Simon, Do you have one?”
“Sorry Mate, I own a Pre.”
Very soon, conversations like this would be long forgotten myths. As a common charger for all data-enabled mobile phones (Read as Smartphones) is on it’s way in the year 2011, thanks to the European Union, whose tireless efforts have paved way for the standardization of chargers for “all data enabled phones sold in the EU.” This is very impressive considering all the users, corporations and Holy Mother Earth herself.
We came across a recent publication of the newly defined charging standards for the EU, which has finally agreed to Micro-USB chargers as the standard chargers to be used in the future.
“Incompatibility of chargers for mobile phones is a major inconvenience for users and leads to an unnecessary waste of resources” says Antonio Tajani, European Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Industry and Entrepreneurship.
Covering all data-enabled mobile phones sold in the 27 EU Member States, including smartphones, the agreement paved the way for European Standardisation Bodies CEN-CENELEC and ETSI to issue a set of standards on interoperability, safety and electro-magnetic emissions. With these standards in place, the EU Commission now expects the first generation of mobile phones compatible with the new common charger to hit our shelves in early 2011.
Well thats a sigh of relief for the EU consumers, who are on the receiving end of this immediate benefit (yes sirs and ma’ams, you dont just get a standardized charger, you get a God-damned High Efficiency Charger…!!). What has been speculated and discussed for long has now come into the picture.
It is estimated that approximately half of all mobile phones in use across the EU will benefit immediately, with the EU initiative having huge potential to spread to other electronic devices and world regions.
“Our lives will change for the better thanks to the harmonised charger system, and I think that it will inevitably expand to additional technological devices,” : Vice President Tajani.
PS: We just received a phone call from Holy Mother Earth herself, she is eternally grateful to these good EU members and the companies who have relieved her of some 51,000 tomes of yearly charger wastes. She hopes similar announcements would happen across the globe with imminence.
She also tell us that she will be more productive and green in Europe this summer..!!
Whatdy’all say..??
Mobile World Congress is a huge event – unfortunately, the event management team in Barcelona has been a bit overwhelmed at times.
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