Implement early as possible. It's environment friendly to save electronics waste so it would be great if one charges implemented on 5th june 2011 on "world environment day" by the way implement it early as possible

Who is the idiot that came up with the idea that we needed a micro USB and a Mini USB connector. This has no advantage that I can see of going any smaller then the current Mini USB. Which is so widely adopted on cell phones Digital cameras Video Cameras Blue-tooth ear piece USB watches etc. This is a 1/2 step in the right direction but if they really wanted to go green they would have stuck with the already highly adopted Mini USB over the waste of designed Micro USB. They decided to go with Micro over Mini because they know that they get to sale you just one more adapter. If they would have done this a long time ago we would have had cars with the build in standard phone Dock that also hard connected it to the cars charging and audio system with out the complexity of Blue-tooth Pairing or security risk. The feds should have stepped up along time ago and advocated on behalf of us the consumer.

They are only doing this because China has demand a single power adapter.
They seem to be able to make different models for Japan and Rest of world, but China is a much bigger market (potentialy as least) than Japan and so they are standardising worldwide.

Now if we could only get them to stop locking phones to specific cell service vendors.
Seriously, I'd love to have a Jeebus phone, but there's no way I'd switch to teh ebil AT&T as a provider. And no, I don't want to play the cat and mouse game of jailbreaking teh Jeebus phone just to use it with my current cell service provider.
There oughta be a law!

Because Micro-USB is a new design that is already widely-adopted (and is anticipated by the USB Implementers Forum to replace Mini-USB), thinner (allowing phones, smartphones and internet tablets to become thinner themselve), and can have more connect-disconnect cycles than Mini-USB currently offers (important when using a single port for both charging the battery and data transfer).

The Japanese have had this years ago, though it took them an act of Law to do it!

Now, if we could get all the Media devices done as well....

Why on earth did they choose micro-USB, if they adopted Mini-USB like Motorola, HTC and Blackberry, things would be much simpler.

@Alan Many Laptops use common sized plugs, however if the power requirements of a laptop push it outside a predefined limit (like Lenovo with their T/R/X 61 series), then a connector redesign is needed. This is especially true for laptops running on unusual voltages, like the 20V of a Lenovo R61

Please can we have standard chargers for laptops now as well??

My GPS and my phone already use USB (Tomtom One, RIM Blackberry), but my last two phones, my bluetooth headset, and a bunch of other devices don't, even though they also use 5VDC at USB-capable current levels. Can't wait!

Is for all the other devices that can be charged from a USB port to be compatible, My phone, my ebook reader and my Archos all require separate cables and PSUs.