From: RobertB 

In article ,
 Ad  wrote:

> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40112
>
> "THE PEOPLE'S Republic of China said it will begin enforcing a universal
> standard of cell phone charger in the next month. As the world+dog
> knows, the IT superpower, and of course the ROC called Taiwan are
> responsible for a staggering percentage of overall IT production
> capacity. In 2004, for example, they shipped over one third of all
> mobile phones in the world, with that figure growing by 12 per cent in
> the next year.
>
> While some manufacturers might grumble that the new policy will force
> them to make changes to their phone designs, the Ministry of Information
> Industry has taken the step to reduce the number of phone chargers that
> have to be thrown away every year. With nearly 100 million mobile phones
> being replaced in China every year, this potentially represents a big
> reduction in e-waste, and is definitely a good thing."
>
> "Many local Chinese companies such as Lenovo and Konka already have
> compliant mobile phones, while Motorola and Sony-Ericsson already have
> some phones in their range that are compliant with the USB standard.
> Other manufactures have complained, however, that phone costs will rise
> as they will no longer be able to ship the same model of phone to all
> countries. Given the universal nature of USB, however, you'd expect that
> in the long-term, people will benefit from this move"
>
>
> Hurrah.....a great move. Hopefully this will spread to all other low
> power devices so that a powered USB post can be used to charge a whole
> range of things & so that we can all dispense with many many wall warts.
>
>
> Adam

Death to wall warts!

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