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TrogL

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7. Since when did they settle on a universal charger?

Reply to HopeHoops (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 12:12 PM

Jun 2012

My iPhone takes a proprietary Apple cord, my wife's Blackberry takes a little skinny thing, my older Blackberry takes a different shape and my son's LG takes something different again.

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