{"id":759,"date":"2009-07-21T23:46:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T06:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2009-07-21T23:46:36","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T06:46:36","slug":"gsm-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/gsm-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"GSM To The  Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back I read in a NYT Circuits (now called &#8220;Personal Tech&#8221;) article the eyeball&#8217;s equivalent to music to my ears: that the GSM Association (a cellphone-company trade group) said that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsmworld.com\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2009\/2548.htm\">its members have agreed to settle on a single, standard charger design for all cellphones &#8211; MicroUSB<\/a> (what is currently used by Blackberries and Canon cameras) and that they will aim for New Year&#8217;s Day, 2012 as the deadline.  Sweet.<br \/>\nSo far, AT&amp;T, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, T-Mobile and Vodaphone are all aboard.  No word  on whether Verizon or Sprint,  both non-GSM carriers,  are on board.<br \/>\nThis means no more &#8220;do you have a charger that fits a ____ phone?&#8221; &#8220;Sorry, I only have one that fits a ____.&#8221;  conversations.  Gone will be the company emails that say, &#8220;Do you have a ____ charger for our ____ Client who is visiting?&#8221;  The new question will be much simpler &#8211; it will just be, &#8220;Do you have a charger?&#8221; Period.<br \/>\nI cannot wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back I read in a NYT Circuits (now called &#8220;Personal Tech&#8221;) article the eyeball&#8217;s equivalent to music to my ears: that the GSM Association (a cellphone-company trade group) said that its members have agreed to settle on a single, standard charger design for all cellphones &#8211; MicroUSB (what is currently used by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}