Monday, September 26, 2011

Cell phone power cords

Every once in a while hardware manufacturers do something that is truly praise worthy. A while back virtually all of the cell phone companies standardized on the same power cord connection. It means they can't drain every last penny from users by forcing them to buy proprietary power cords but it was great for users. If you have one power cord you can use it to charge many different cell phones. Beautiful.

I thought about this today because my dear wife lost the power cord for her Pantech phone. Of course she had no idea what her connection cord was so I had to do some research. Fortunately I had another Pantech phone with the same power cord connection so she was saved. If only she had had a newer phone there would have been no problem at all.

Thank you cell phone makers for your standardization. You've made our lives easier.

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