Should North America adopt a single cell phone charger standard ?

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European Commission demands a single, standard phone charger

The European Commission is getting ready to ***** all mobile phone companies to use a single connector on their chargers, in order to eliminate the mountains of e-waste generated by switching chargers every time you switch phones. Transformer bricks with esoteric connectors are the most common form of electronic crap I see on street-vendors' blankets around the world (at least a hundred of them yesterday on Brick Lane in London, and literally thousands and thousands of them in Mumbai's Chor Bazaar), and given that they all put out nearly the same voltage and amperage, it really does seem...
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no brainer :rolleyes: I have a drawer full of various assorted transformer / chargers and for what good reason ? it's pure waste !
Hopefully most electronic devices in the future will have the ability to charge (mooch) a charge off of the personal computer port, if not, at least try to center around a singular voltage whenever possible.
 

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