Techdirt: China To Mandate Standardized Phone Chargers
Apparently South Korea did this last year and I didn’t notice (Sorry, South Korea), but now China is standardizing its phone chargers. It is absolutely ridiculous now, when each cell phone requires a different charger. True, people like Radio Shack sell chargers with interchangeable connectors for different phones, but I can’t imagine why these things aren’t standardized. Even within one manufacturer, they aren’t standard. So every time I get a new phone, I need a new charger. And probably two, so I have one in the car and one in the house. But, no more. Now all I have to do is buy Chinese phones and make sure I have USB available everywhere. I wonder how hard it would be to install USB ports in my car?