The universal charger
by Volker Weber
My gadget box contains a whole lot of chargers for my mobile, the GPS receiver, the camera, the iBook and so forth. However, most of the accessory devices I have been testing in the last months charge over USB. Today I received a GPS receiver that hooks up via USB or Bluetooth. And it charges over USB as well. The wall wart has a standard USB plug. There is a host of other devices that use chargers with mini-USB plugs, like my Samsung MP3 player, the Motorola RAZR and so forth.
That is why I declare the mini-USB port as the standard interface to charge gadgets.
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ACK. By Bluetooth Headset charges as well over my powerbook, my Palm as well.
My car setup do you know as well I think :-) So i can charge all the gadgets on the road.
Unfortunately I still have many gadgets (as my mobile phone) that do not yet have an USB connection. I am looking forward to the day that I can travel without a big bag of chargers.
I'm a bit out of touch with these things. Do we still worry about volts and amps or is that a standard thing in USB chargers? (I suspect volts: yes, amps: no).
5 V, 500 mA for USB 1. More A for USB 2, but not sure how much.
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