The UN-backed International Telecommunication Union isn’t just making the move to make our lives a little less hellish, though — it’s also a strategic environmental move on a couple fronts, since universal cell phone charger means consumers will be able to hold on to a single charger over the life of several phones and modern chargers are far more power efficient than models that are even just a couple years old.

The ITU move isn’t binding or compulsory, but there’s enough momentum behind micro-USB at this point that it’s pretty much going to happen for any phone you’d ever consider buying going forward, and many of the big players have already hopped on the bandwagon. We won’t lie, we won’t miss the days of buying a $40 car charger that powers, like, two LG models.