Pack your Bags and Update that Passport, Europe Finally has a Universal Cell Phone Charger

This is what you do when you accidentally run over your cellphone charger with a lawnmower and have to call the girl of your dreams to reschedule your date that night but can’t because your cellphone is dead and shes in your contacts but you don’t remember her number so you can’t use a land line. (inhales)

When you break or lose your cellphone charger you’re basically out of luck. Many cellphones made use a different charger. That’s all about to change though, at least in Europe.

The European Commission was just as annoyed as everyone else with this issue so they’ve worked with a bunch of the top names and uttered “make it so.” Which means, as of next year, almost any cellphone will work with almost any charger.

They worked with 10 major cellphone makers, including Apple, Motorola, Samsung and Research In Motion. This also means that once you upgrade to a new phone you’ll actually have a spare charger instead of a fancy black rope that gathers dust in one of your drawers.

Hopefully it doesn’t take long for the idea to jump across the pond.