Most phone manufacturers now produce chargers which work only with their own devices. This brings a lot of headache as you need to purchase new chargers when you buy a new cellphone, especially if it’s from a different brand. Wouldn’t it be very convenient if every phone maker used the same type of phone charger? You can use back the same charger for a very long time!

The GSM Association (GSMA), an umbrella group for the industry has announced that it is working on such a solution together with other 17 other firms. They include big names such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, T-Mobile, Orange, 3, AT&T and Vodafone.

A common format is scheduled to arrive by 2012. As for a connector, it’s expected that micro-USB will be chosen. The GSMA estimates the new charger will mean the potential elimination of up to 51,000 tonnes of duplicate chargers.

Speaking of CTIA Wireless event in Las Vegas, you'll know that it's getting nearer when mobile phone manufacturers start churning out press releases for their mobile phones. Motorola seems to have been nonexistent during the MWC 2009 but now they've announced the Motorola Evoke.

I guess considering that most of their market is in the USA, Motorola deems it proper to announce their goodies on US events like the CTIA. Anyways, the Motorola Evoke is a touchscreen slider phone from Motorola and no, it doesn't have the traditional candybar design but more of a "soap" design since the Motorola QA4 features rounded corners.



The Motorola Evoke only has a 2.8 inch touchscreen with a singular menu button in front but slide-out the keypad and you get a traditional mobile phone. It has aGPS and sGPS, a 2 megapixel camera, memory card slot, and stereo Bluetooth. Unfortunately, it looks like the Motorola Evoke won't be coming to Europe as it is only compatible with band modes: CDMA 800/1900/1700/2100, Diversity 1900MHz and 2100 MHz EVDO Rev A.

Zzzz...Come on Motorola!!! When are you going to start churning up good phones? Whatever happened to your research and development team? We need better phones than this Evoke, Motorola. Please wake up and smell the coffee! Pretty soon you'll be losing ground to Sony Ericsson. 

MySpace has recenlty announced that it would provide support for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Silverlight. The MySpace mobile application will be available this summer and will use MS Silverlight.

MySpace's support for Silverlight would enable app developers to create new MySpace apps so that Windows Mobile users will have a "more personal MySpace Experience" on their mobile phone.

The MySpace application will be available for download starting this Summer and will support Windows Mobile 6.1 while LG's recent Microsoft Mobile phones will have this application preloaded.