Announced on Monday, European Commission is getting supports from major mobile phone manufacturers for using micro-USB port to charge the phone battery. Those manufacturers represent about 90 percent of Europe's market share, which include Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Apple, LG, NEC, RIM (BlackBerry), Qualcomm and Texas Instruments. [via slashgear] continued »

Mobile phone users can expect the cost of sending text messages from abroad in the EU to be much cheaper next summer. The European Commission today proposed to reduce the price of roaming text messages by 60% as of 1 July 2009. EU citizens travelling in other EU countries should pay no more than €0.11 per SMS compared to the ... continued »

The 2.5 billion text messages sent every year by roaming customers in the EU cost over 10 times more than domestic short messages (SMS), show figures released today by the European Commission. The average cost of a roaming text message in the EU between October 2007 and March 2008 was €0.29 according to the European Regulators' Group (ERG), but can ... continued »