Apple is finally set to release an adapter that lets people use the common micro-USB-based charger with its iPhones. As the company unveiled its iPhone 4S on Tuesday, it also put the iPhone micro-USB ...

At the end of June, in 2009, the European Commission started a movement to make micro-USB the standardized charging port for cellphones. It was subsequently backed by roughly 90% of the cellphone ...

Are your cupboards full of old phone chargers? They seem to accumulate with every new mobile, and are rarely useful again. Hoping to change this wasteful scenario, the European Union have proposed – ...

Today basically all portable devices be it smartphones, tablets, or laptops come with their own chargers. While there are different types of chargers, most micro-USB connectors and chargers that are ...

Sony has ditched the proprietary charging cable for its next model of PS Vita, heading to a standard micro-USB charger instead. Nic Healey is a Senior Editor with CNET, based in the Australia office.

With all the news coming from its big event yesterday, Samsung glazed over the importance of one new feature of its Galaxy Note 3 — it’s the first phone we know of that uses USB 3.0. The benefits of ...

The latest brainbox idea out of Brussels is to pass a law that would see every mobile manufacturer operating in the region — which is pretty much all of them — adopt a universal phone and tablet ...

October 1, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google When you buy a new phone or tablet, you may notice that the micro-USB charging and data port is a pretty snug ...

USB ports of every shape and size, but that's not all.