Preparing for my trip to Venice, I’ve realised a great feature of Apple’s iPod USB Power Adapter
Because the iPod Power Adapter has a USB Socket on it (instead of a lead out like other chargers including Nokia, Sony etc) I can plug in my Usb Connection cable to my phone to the Apple Adapter and Charge.
People like Larry Page talk about standardized power all the time and we already have it! My Phone and iPod charge off the SAME adapter (reducing my luggage) if my camera could charge via USB (and why shouldn’t it?) I’d have just one charger for all these devices. Apple is obviously spearheading this wise power adapter practice by leaving a nice USB socket on its Power Adapter.
Conrast this method to Nokias Power Adapters, Every Year since 1997 I’ve bought a new Nokia Phone, and each year they give me a new hard wired charge identical to the one they gave with the prior years model.
Is this mentally sound? Nokia Power chargers litter my abode, many peoples abodes and many rubbish dumps.
Nokia should stop providing Power Adapters (which must cost a lot in production and shipping (they weigh about a half pound!)) and simply give us USB cables with the phone, sell a separate USB power Adapter and save the planet a lot of resources. Same goes for Sony, LG, et al.
I know google support this concept, Larry Page spoke about it at their keynote in January:
“Most devices can be connected through adapters. You can basically adapt anything to USB for like $20. Do you really need all these ports running around? I don’t think it’s really necessary. Phones have been a really positive example. You can connect any bluetooth headset to any blue
“What we really need are adapters .. standards for security, discovery, peering and forwarding to the internet .. we also needs standards for protocols ,.. audio, video, displays…
“Finally like I mentioned, you can take USB and do most of these things with it.
Power supplies today …
… and tomorrow?
” I just want to plead with you to help standardize these things. I thought I’d throw this out to get people thinking.
I concur with Larry and wanted to remind all of you that there already is a standardized USB power Adapter and it is The Apple iPod USB Power Adapter.
So Pick one up before your next trip and realize the benefits of a single lightweight Power adapter that’ll charge your iPods, Cell Phones and some other USB devices.
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