OMTP encourages industry wide standardisation of phone chargers

All of our mobile phones will one day have a lot more in common than they do currently. Or rather they will all have two things in common at the very least.

Earlier this week we got wind of plans for the creation of a standard memory card format for mobile devices and now we have just heard that there is an internal industry push for a standard mobile charger socket too.

In the wake of an industry consultation, the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) has drafted a recommendation paper to help set the ball rolling towards securing USB as the standard socket for all chargers on mobile devices. How many times have you found yourself asking desperately “Do you have a charger for an (insert brand) phone”?

Us too, which is why we think this is a great idea that simply can’t come soon enough.

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