The mobile phone world seems to be moving slowly towards the adoption of the same standards for all the handsets available on the market, as well as for those that will soon come to the shelves. We already learned a while ago that Sony Ericsson was planning on adopting the microSD memory card slot with its future handsets, and that the industry would have a single standardize charger in Europe, and now it seems that another manufacturer is about to move to a standard adopted on most phones in the wild.

This time around the maker in question is HTC, and the standard we are talking about is the 35-mm jack that hasn't been available on its devices until now. However, it seems that the Taiwanese company intends to equip its future mobile phones with this port, and that the first one to have it, out from a long line of handsets, is the newly released Android-powered HTC Hero. The move that HTC chose to make seems to be the result of consumer pressure, as well as of a strong competition that its handsets see on the market at the moment.

“The vast majority of devices we launch after Hero will have a 3.5mm jack. Devices that we have already announced but that still come out after Hero will not necessarily be a part of this change,” is what HTC said in this regard, as reported by MobileCrunch. The company already has a variety of mobile phones that do not come with the much praised 3.5mm jack on the market, yet it seems that users should expect for things to take another turn in the future.

Up until now, HTC's devices came with a modified miniUSB port, and high-end mobile phones like the HTC Touch Pro 2, Diamond 2 and HTC Snap won't feature the new 3.5mm jack from the company. Even so, HTC Whitestone, Firestone, Star and Superstar handsets that have already been rumored to be on their way to the shelves might actually include the new standard, though there are no exact details on this at the moment.