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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by endless1234 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:41AM (#28627075)
6 billion smartphone subscriptions worldwide (according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/330695/number-of-smartph...), Android is about 70% (https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide), and has been predominantly USB C for the past 5 years or so (eg Samsung S7, released in 2016, was their first phone with USB-C afaics). I don't think it's that far fetched.
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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by agurk on Thursday September 23, 2021 @06:58AM (#28627547)
According to Wikipedia the S7 was first released 2016-03-11. The Oneplus 2 was released on 2015-07-28 which was one the first with a USB-C port.

One of the big reasons for me getting the OP2 was the port and I'm still using it (with LineageOS). I'm sure I would have upgraded long ago if it didn't have a USB-C port as that's what I've standardised on for all my portable electronics.

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