And One Charger To Rule Them All
In the future, micro-USB connectors are going to be it, no matter what brand cell phone Europeans buy. The European Commission came to the agreement voluntarily and secured pledges of support from ten major international retailers that sell their phones in the EU.
The New York Times points out that this could mean retailers will eventually sell chargers separately from phones to further reduce waste. The States might be a holdout on the metric system, but I imagine that those influential retailer pledges will eventually translate into a standard on this side of the pond. Before the commission made a decision, my blogosphere cousins at TreeHugger.
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