All mobile phones, tablets, earphones and a wide range of other portable consumer electronics will need to be sold with USB-C charging ports from Saturday, the EU has announced.
First introduced around a decade ago, USB-C charging ports are reversible and capable of accelerated data transfer and charging speeds, the latter known as 'fast charging’.
In a statement on Friday, the European Parliament said that as of the following day, all such devices sold in the EU must have a USB-C charging port, with laptops set to follow suit in late April 2026.
No there are some silly proprietary techs which either prevent compatibility or severely limit charging speed. As well as a lot of devices which simply didn’t bother to put any circuitry in and just used the USB-C port as a dumb power connector which only works with their charger and cable. I provided examples in my last message.