OMTP agrees on micro-USB standard for mobiles

September 21, 2007 – 11:45 am

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Just over eight months after the USB Implementers Forum completed the micro-USB specification, the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) has recommended that the protocol be accepted as a universal standard for charging and syncing mobile devices. Reportedly, the “OMTP’s paper recommends that the micro-USB standard” be adopted across the mobile industry in order to “streamline the whole value chain and provide end users with a larger choice of the most popular peripherals.” Still, we’re not told when handset manufacturers will start offering up the new port en masse, but at least we’re makin’ progress, eh?

 

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