The industry bodies of cell phone service providers and makers have informed the industry ministry of plans to unify specifications of cell phone sockets and battery charger plugs around 2010, when the use of fourth-generation phones will likely become full-fledged, ministry officials said Tuesday.
The standardization would enable cell phone users to continue to use the same chargers even after replacing phones with ones marketed by different service providers, they said. At present, the specifications used for cell phones' sockets by NTT DoCoMo Inc, KDDI Corp and Vodafone KK differ and their chargers are incompatible.
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