Forget your charger? No more hassle in China
The Chinese government is to make an incredibly sensible decision this week to standardise mobile phone adapters. The advantage is twofold - waste is reduced (think about how many phones and adapters you've chucked in the past ten years) and those more forgetful travellers will never be stuck with only two day's charge after forgetting their own adapter.
I can imagine hotel rooms with built-in mobile adapters and adapter cables plumbed in next to seats in the train.
If only Ryan had had one in Cellular.
About time too! How about a single adaptor for all the gadgets? When space is at a premium (e.g. when going across Europe on a motorbike ...) having to carry umpteen adaptors for different things is a real pain in the xxxx ;-)
Posted by: Ruby | December 20, 2006 at 03:49 PM
I just got an 02 xda mini s and was overjoyed to find that the power socket is the USB port. Laptop AND phone power chargers in my one-man-social-media-empire bag?? Not any more!
Posted by: Lloyd | December 20, 2006 at 08:30 PM
I just saw in our local paper (Phoenix, AZ) that a company here has developed a charging pad for almost all electronic devices.
http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/1214sr-biz1214smallbizZ8.html
It seems interesting and I hope a large number of companies start manufacturing with this already built in to their devices.
Posted by: J.D. | December 20, 2006 at 11:54 PM