Our beloved USB ports are getting smaller, for cell phones anyway. Yesterday the USB-IF announced that cell phones were adopting a smaller USB connector in an effort to help make it easier for cell phone makers to go smaller with our phones. No actual photos of the new connector were available at this time. The new connector will be USB On-the-Go able so devices can communicate without a PC. It seems that Nokia was one of the factors in the effort to make the USB plug smaller. Hopefully we will se some smaller handset as a result of this new port. No word yet on when phones using the new port will be available. 
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