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Old 04-08-2009, 07:35 PM   #6
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Am I allowed to rant here about how idiotic it is that I can't charge a Blackberry from any USB equipped device, when every other device in the known world that has a USB plug on it will?
Not true.

My old Sony-Erricsson required this as well, and so do many other phones.

The problem is, USB only puts out a general amount of power in it's plug-n-play mode it puts out less Amps than when a driver is installed to tell it to send more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Power
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