Phone Charger Tech

When you go on vacation, a business trip, a getaway, a sleepover, a weekend visit, etc., the one thing you never forget (or try not to for that matter) is your cell phone charger. It is one of the first few things you pack and in the event of forgetting said charging device, you simply consider yourself royally screwed. For what are you to do without your cell phone? You slowly see that battery meter dwindling down: 3 squares, full charge...2 squares, half charge....1 square, its only a matter of time; and finally your phone turns off. It's almost poetic.

Its about time that phone companies come out with a universal charger and that's exactly what a new UN body recently approved. A charger that can work on any kind of phone, anywhere. Well, almost anywhere. The plug will have to be region specific but the connector (what goes into your phone) does not. The report calls for the use of micro usb, a somewhat recent addition to the family of usb connectors.

Jacked from: mobileburn.com

The jack on the left is a regular mini usb that is currently used often for charging various devices from cell phones to digital cameras. The jack on the right is micro usb. It is smaller to fit well with the new, sleeker devices coming out and can also help reduce power consumption. If that happens on a worldwide scale, then we're looking at a major reduction in CO2 emissions. Around the tune of 13.6 million tons, according to msnbc.com.

When will all this happen? When will this revolution occur? Hopefully in the next few years. We might not see anything different for another five years but we are slowly moving towards the goal of a universal charger for everything and hopefully one day, you won't even have to plug in your device to charge it. What if it could just lie there on any surface and get charged much like how you receive a wireless signal with a router. If only it were that simple...but, until then, happy charging!