The Cable Wars: Distress with Wires
August 31, 2009 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Accessories
See the photo above? Those are 1/5 of all my cables.
This might sound like a light topic, but truth be told it isn’t. With people changing phones every four months, buying new devices whenever a sale comes, and racking up new wires and cables, it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell accessories apart:
The most distressing thing are miniUSB chargers that really don’t have a standard miniUSB tip. Case in point would be the BlackBerry, that seems, at first sight, to have a standard USB charging end, but in reality, the tip is much wider than a regular USB cable.
These cable manufacturers — they should invest a little more in putting in some easy to read labels on the wiring. Lumix does this — their camera chargers have a white strip stuck around the cable saying it’s for a Panasonic camera.
Nokia — don’t get me started. As much as I love their phones, they have different types of chargers per set of phones. Old chargers (fatter round ends) won’t work on the newer ones (smaller tips).
Can all cables come with their own velcro strip? It’s already past the year 2000 and still some manufacturers don’t take this into consideration.
Why do all of these cables have to be in black?! For Pete’s sake, only Apple (and now, HTC) have chargers that have different colors other than black.
