Mobile phone charger to be standardised
This is good news:
The spaghetti-like nightmare that forms many users' collection of phone chargers, headset connectors and data cables could be set to end after a major mobile industry forum agreed to standardise on one type of connector.
On Monday the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) -- a forum dominated by networks but including manufacturers such as Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and LG -- announced that its members had agreed on micro-USB as the future common connector.
There's not much point abstaining from setting a common standard when there is hardly any prospect of technological innovation in a given area; this development is welcome and long overdue.
