Finally, iPhone is also targeted, finally the charging connector of the mobile phone is made common

It is a charge connector for mobile phones that can not be denied separately for each terminal manufacturer and telecommunications company, but it is officially decided that it will eventually be shared.

Apple, which adopts its own connector for its own mobile phone "iPhone", also agrees with commonization, so it seems that it will be able to charge any mobile phone with one charger.

Details are as below.
Commission welcomes industry's commitment to provide a common charger for mobile phones | Rapid - Press Releases - EUROPA

According to this release, the European Union (EU) agreed with mobile phone manufacturers to standardize chargers in order to eliminate the inconvenience and unnecessary expenses that occurred due to differences in chargers of mobile phones among manufacturers, etc. I heard he did.

This will be reflected in the European market from 2010, the charger interface will be shared by microUSB. This makes it possible for users to comfortably use mobile phones, and it is said to be friendly to the environment.

In addition to NEC, Sony Ericsson, LG, Motorola, Qualcomm, Samsung, Texas Instruments, in addition to Research in Motion (RIM) known for "NOKIA and Apple", the world's largest mobile phone makers, "BlackBerry" We have 10 companies in total.

Considering that there are many manufacturers that are deployed on a global scale, will mobile phones that can be charged with microUSB also increase in the Japanese market? Willcom alreadyWILLCOM 03Although we support microUSB with multiple models including, but it may be very nice to be able to use it by unifying the connectors.