One Charger Fits All In 2012

The GSM
Association’ s recent announcement
at the Mobile World Congress 2009
that we would all be using universal
mobile phone chargers by 2012
should be warmly greeted . Many
people I know have a pile of
chargers locked up somewhere in
their closet for different mobile
phones, sometimes from the same
manufacturers ’ . This can be a source
of frustration particularly if one
mistakenly took the wrong charger
on a journey or completely forgot to
take any along. This development
came about as a result of an
agreement reached between the
GSMA and 17 leading mobile phone
operators and manufacturers such
as , Nokia, Orange, Samsung etc. and
the aim is to make the standard
chargers available from the 1 st
January 2012. When implemented ,
the universal chargers will have a
similar Micro- USB charging interface
and therefore provide a wide range
of benefits to consumers’ and the
environment alike. These benefits
range from environmental protection
by its consumption of less energy,
waste reduction and relative
longetivity when compared to current
available terminals.
Furthermore , consumers’ will now be
able to use the same charger for
future handsets which means that
when one either takes the wrong
instrument on a journey or
completely forgets it at home he can
be sure of finding an alternative in
any available charger. In addition,
this would imply that user
dependence on mobile phone kiosks
could be significantly reduced and
manufacturers would not need to
produce so many chargers again
thus resulting in the possibility of
further reduction in the cost of
mobile handsets due to the fact that
chargers would now be produced
and sold as separate items from
mobile phones . Although this
standardisation plan is said to be
“ ambitious” and still in its early
stages , it is clear that if successful we
would all be beneficiaries .
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