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| Normal & Type C USB |
Imagine
you at a coffee shop waiting for an important call, your phone is about to die
and you have forgotten your phone charger. You feel a rush of panic and have
only a few options. Either drive home and search for your charger or bite the bullet
and buy a new one.
This
scenario changes with the USB-C port. The USB-C port is universal, you can ask
the person next to you to borrow your laptop power cord and it will
automatically charge your phone securely. You can also borrow electricity directly
from any other device so that you can connect the phone to the phone and charge
each other.
Above
are all standard cable ends for recent Android smartphones. When you start
looking at hard drives, printers, and other devices, it expands into a large list,
but for this post, we'll stick to the differences between USB-C and micro USB.
The
main benefit that most of our members receive in Connector is that it is
reversible. This means that you will never have to do the dance of flipping ten
times on the connector to try to find the right way to plug it. This is
especially useful in the dark.
Throughout
the history of USB cables, it is common to always have a USB-A connector on one
side of the cable. So while new types of USB connectors were introduced in the
past to connect to smaller devices, the USB-A connector remained constant so
that we could continue plugging in the same port. However, with USB-C, USB-A is
being replaced, and eventually, USB-C will be the new standard for all devices.
And the USB-C cable will (eventually) not have a USB-A connector. This is a big
transition in how consumers use USB cables!
USB-C
can be used for very high bandwidth use cases where the previous generation
stopped like 4K video and blazing fast file transfers. It also safely supports
greater wattage throughput, which will help make it ubiquitous for all our
portable devices, not just phones.
In
the words of Sam Cook, "A change is going to come, oh yes, it will
happen". People don't like sudden changes and most of the controversy is
caused by manufacturers abruptly removing other ports because they understand
that USB-C is so capable. Some devices, such as the new Apple laptop, only come
with a USB-C port. Samsung, Motorola, LG and Huawei all have phones with USB-C
ports.
In
the not too distant future, we will look at new laptops and look at the older
USB ports as a sign that that laptop is old because we don't have anything that
connects to those ports. For now, however, many older USB cables are still in
use that transition to USB-C with only one adapter and many complaints.
USB-C
is easy to use, handles more wattage and data throughput. We can hope that it
stays around as long as USB-A did. Children born today will expect to be adults
as long as there is a better and ubiquitous standard.
