So the EU Commission has gotten agreement from 10 major phone manufacturers on a common mobile phone charger.

This means people will no longer need to ask questions such as “Do you have a Nokia charger” or whatever. The common charger will be based on Mini-USB. According to the BBC there are more than 30 different types of chargers for handsets throughout Europe.

The 10 companies who have agreed to this measure are:

• Apple
• LG
• Motorola
• NEC
• Nokia
• Qualcomm
• Research in Motion
• Samsung
• Sony Ericsson
• Texas Instruments

Those companies account for 90% of Mobile Phone sales in the EU. I think this is good news for Consumers and well done to the Commission and in particular to Günter Verheugen, the Commissioner for Enterprise.