The EC (European Commission) has announced the 10 manufacturers of mobile phone products, which represent 90 percent of the mobile phone market in Europe, has signed a voluntary agreement to use a standard charger for mobile phone using a micro-USB connector. Approval is a focus that the EC charger mobile phone and iPhone is now discard many electronic components in it as such.
Vice president of the European Commission, Gunter Verheugen said that the mobile phone market in Europe is the only one responsible disposal of thousands of tons of electronics every year, the same as mobile phone upgrade or dispose of old mobile phones in the short life cycle. "On the mobile phone market in Europe, there are 185 million new mobile phone each year. We discuss the life cycle is short. Worse, if you use a different phone, it is possible to get a charger that is definitely problematic. Standard charger will be present in the mid-year, with new mobile phone that is provided for the new type of charger, the charger will be standard in the future. In the end, will be sold without a phone charger, mobile phone to reduce the waste that is not useful from the user. "Verheugen said.
Charger will use this standard for USB charging, and use micro-USB connector from the phone, so the charger can also be used without the phone. So far, there are 10 companies that have signed the "Memorandum of Understanding" that dipelopori by EC, including Apple, LG, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Texas Instruments, and will take effect immediately in 2010. predicted EC 10 represents the company is already selling mobile phone as much as 90 percent of them in Europe.
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