From my favorite gadget site, MobileWhack:
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What I haven't figured out is why PDAs and
mobile phones don't have USB connectors on
them. I wonder if it's a technical thing,
a cost thing, or something folks do for creating markets for their own non-standard interfaces...
Imagine most chargeable devices having USB connectors so you just carry around one charging device which connects to a wall socket on one end and has openings for USB lugs on the other...of course, if you carry a laptop around, that would work fine as the universal charging unit, but a cheaper charging device would be handy too (-;
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