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Originally Posted by HarryT
Its only real benefit is a reduction in the number of chargers you have to carry around. The fact that so many devices these days have standardised on mini-USB cables for charging is certainly convenient.
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That's definitely true. It's really nice now that my mp3 player and both my cell phone and my wife's cell phone all take the same charger. Although, we're still stuck with her Palm needing a specialized charger (she has an older model).
You can't do that with the iLiad though. The power requirements for charging it are higher than what USB is capable of. Even if you added a mini-USB plug to the device, you can't charge it's battery off of the current that USB provides. The iLiad is more like a laptop in that sense. You can use it to power other things via USB, but you can't charge it's main battery that way.