Comments on: Universal cell phone chargers coming soon

Finally, the mobile industry will provide a single cell-phone charger that will work with any phone.

[chadananda]

Am I understanding this right? Just when the entire industry is standardizing on solid little "mini USB" the cellphone industry decides to "standardize" on micro-USB (the crappy smaller easily broken cousin of mini USB).

In other words, the cell phone industry has decided not to embrace the "standard" charger for every other device. My cell phone (blackberry) currently uses the same mini-USB as my audio recorder, GPS, Sony eBook reader, etc.

So it sounds like I'm going to have to get a new charger since my next cellphone will no longer conform to the mini-USB "standard".

Am I missing something here? It sounds like the cellphone industry is bucking the new standard (although all doing it together).

[myfacehurts]

apple continues to tourment me. snobby cashmere wearing people. get off your vert horse and just get with the program. le t it go. you're not that great.

[Zandora777]

If Apple went w/ a standard USB port, they would lose the analog audio/video passthrough feature that allows you to plug their advanced dock into standard RCA jacks, which enables users to output audio and video to standard televisions, among other things.

[Jack_McSlay]

That's not an excuse. They could easily add the micro-usb along the classic cronnector to their devices without losing any of these features.

[AppleSuxLeo]

I already have one. It came with my Moto BT headset about 2 years ago. And my 3 year old Moto Q supports BT 2.0 with A2DP.

[Sam Papelbon]

i've been curious as to why they only expect a majority of phones to have this by 2012. is it really that difficult to put a usb charger into a phone that they need 3 years to work out the kinks? i've seen devices for sale that plug into the wall and have a usb port to charge devices that normally recharge from usb. this technology exists. 2012? and only a majority of phones? seriously?