Proprietary plugs and connectors drive the reviewers of Wired nuts in Cable Madness: Crazy Connectors we can do without: why in heaven's name does the HTC G1 (or Google phone) have a proprietary headphone connector? In a comparison of the HTC Hermes and the Palm Treo Geardiary is equally annoyed by a proprietary connector, but in this case HTC is on the good side:

The Hermes uses a standard miniUSB connector as opposed to the “Universal Connector” that the Treo uses. I love devices that use the miniUSB connector, as I have stacks of those cables around, and they are all interchangeable. Need another sync cable? Just grab one from the draw, share one with another device like a card reader, or pick one up cheap from most computer stores. With my Treo I only have the one charge/sync cable that I bought off eBay. Come on Palm, dump that silly connector (for that matter every company should dump these proprietary connectors) and join the miniUSB crowd!

(Picture: Geardiary)