{"id":47036,"date":"2021-09-23T19:38:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T17:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=47036"},"modified":"2021-09-23T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T17:06:11","slug":"eu-to-impose-universal-phone-charger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/eu-to-impose-universal-phone-charger","title":{"rendered":"EU To Impose Universal Phone Charger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The European Union on Thursday said it will impose a universal charger for smartphones, setting up a clash with Apple and its widely used iPhone connector cable.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission believes a standard cable for all devices will cut back on electronic waste, but Apple says a one-size-fits-all charger will stop innovation and create more pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The EU is a massive market of 450 million people, and the imposition of the USB-C as a cable standard could have a decisive effect on the global smartphone market. Said EU executive vice president Margrethe Vestager in a statement:<\/p>\n<p>European consumers have been frustrated long enough about incompatible chargers piling up in their drawers.<\/p>\n<p>We gave industry plenty of time to come up with their own solutions, now time is ripe for legislative action for a common charger.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers currently have to decide between three main chargers to power their phones: Lightning ones for Apple handsets, micro-USB ones widely used on most other mobile phones, and USB-C ones that are increasingly being used.<\/p>\n<p>That range is greatly simplified from 2009, when dozens of different types of chargers were bundled with mobile phones, creating piles of electronic garbage when users changed brands.<\/p>\n<p>The EU said the current situation remained \u201cinconvenient\u201d and that European consumers spent approximately 2.4 billion euros ($2.8 billion) annually on standalone chargers that do not come with their electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>Apple, which already uses USB-C connectors on some of its iPads and laptop computers, insists legislation to force a universal charger for all mobiles in the European Union is unwarranted.<\/p>\n<p>More: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The European Union on Thursday said it will impose a universal charger for smartphones, setting up a clash with Apple and its widely used iPhone connector cable. 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