There's not a lot we can do except not buying the products that are not what we want them to be. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Most of the gear I am using takes either AAs or AAAs (Petzl lamp, flashlights, digital camera, etc.). That did not prevent me from buying a Motorola V400 phone ;-)

As long as the cell format isn't something very weird or unusual, I don't really mind. Sometimes you don't have the choice (My Nissan car remote takes a coin-sized battery, my Astrostart remote takes another kind that's half the length of an AAA, etc.) but when I have the choice, I purchase AA or AAA stuff.

My 2 cents!