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One Charger for All Mobile Phones, Finally |
| The life of the mobile user will be a lot smoother and the world a little greener with ITU's formal approval of the UCS standard, that will allow users to use the same charger for charging different mobile phones from different vendors. |
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| Friday, October 23, 2009 |
How often have you cursed yourself because you forgot the charger at
home and no one else has a charger at office that works with your HTC
phone? Or your new Samsung touch phone? All that will be a thing of the
past as soon you will have chargers that will work with all mobile
phones. So, no need to carry the charger around. Who knows, all the
public places may just provide you with charger slots as well.
ITU has given its stamp of approval to an energy-efficient
one-charger-fits-all new mobile phone solution. Every mobile phone user
will benefit from the new Universal Charging Solution (UCS), which
enables the same charger to be used for all future handsets, regardless
of make and model. In addition to dramatically cutting the number of
chargers produced, shipped and subsequently discarded as new models
become available, the new standard will mean users worldwide will be
able to charge their mobiles anywhere from any available charger, while
also reducing the energy consumed while charging.UCS chargers will also
include a 4-star or higher efficiency rating - up to three times more
energy-efficient than an unrated charger.
The new UCS standard was based on input from the GSMA, which predicts a
50 per cent reduction in standby energy consumption, elimination of
51,000 tonnes of redundant chargers, and a subsequent reduction of 13.6
million tonnes in greenhouse gas emissions each year.
While the immediate benefit is to the mobile phone user, the world will
be a far greener place as a result, not just because the new charger
will consume less energy but also because users can decide to reuse the
older chargers even while changing their mobile phones, which will
result in less e-waste. More than a billion mobile phones will be
shipped globally in 2010. Even if 10% of the users do not take a new
charger, it will mean 100 million less mobile chargers that will be
discarded.
ITU's UCS standard uses the micro USB standard already used by many
later models of mobile phones and other appliances. So, many of today's
chargers will also work with new mobile phone shipments. It will also
bring down the mobile phone prices, especially in the low-end of the
market.
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