Universal Cell Phone Chargers

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/33448863/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

Today on MSNBC’s top headlines they announced that the U.N. telecoms agency approved a universal cell phone charger. They said it will benefit in all sorts of areas. Customers will not have to keep track of all their chargers, especially those with two or more phones in the household. It will also benefit the environment because by doing this it will prevent 13.6 million tons of greenhouse gasses from entering the ozone from manufacturing of these chargers. It will also reduce the waste from the garbage bound chargers too. They are going to be the micron-USB style plug-in into your phone comparable to digital cameras. They also said that some manufactures would offer the regular USB plug-in so you can charge it directly from your computer instead of a wall socket. Not everyone will do this because the charge time is longer, but some will. The manufacturers will not be legally made to abide with the universal charger, but they said most generally phone makers have no problem following something that is good for their customers.

I’m glad someone finally realized that all the different types of phone and camera chargers are crazy.

I reacted this way because it’s about time we realize how stupid it is to make hundreds of different phones which all have a different charger. I couldn’t tell you how many times I have needed a charge on my phone and next thing you know you have fifteen chargers in front of you and none of them work. At my work we have an extra desk in the office. In one of the big drawers there are about twenty different chargers in it. (I’m not kidding.) If you get an extra charger you usually throw it in the desk. It’s kind of a joke, but I’ve used one of them and I’ve seen others look in there too.


Finally I can throw all those junk chargers away and clean my junk drawer out a little bit.