The spaghetti-like nightmare that forms many users' collection of phone chargers, headset connectors and data cables could be set to end after a major mobile industry forum agreed to standardise on ...

Aftermarket Micro USB cables have traditionally had a lot of problems. Sometimes they’re not properly insulated, so after just a little bit of use you get wire breaks, and then, a defective 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 ...

While USB-C is the most common charging port on smartphones these days, that wasn't always the case. These weird phone ...

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 ...

If you’ve fully embraced the new USB Type-C specification and have moved over to USB-C chargers and devices but still have a few Micro-USB devices kicking around, you’ll no doubt be carrying around ...

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.

We scoff at micro-USB today, but it was the best connector ever made – at least until USB Type-C, aka USB-C showed up. We’re more than ready to wave goodbye to it, but it does deserve a look back at ...

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 ...

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 ...