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Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop!
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Time for USB-C micro and mini!
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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The connector itself is perfectly fine, which is incredible, and exactly what people wanted. Plus there’s a ton of room for technological improvement under the hood, if needed. USB/Thunderbolt standards spread for a whole range of specs now, all under the Type-C connector
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Most devices are still on USB 3.1, so there is a room for growth.
That being said, newest USB protocol supports 240w charging and 20gbps transfer rates. It's good even for next generation laptops, not even talking about phones
that being said, there is no standard indicator for ports, chargers, and cables to signify what charging speed they support.
Sure, usb c can technically do 240W, but most people use crappy chinese cables which will do max 5W and blame it on the usb specification
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This could mean that OP has either +100 usb chargers, or a fraction of a non-USB-C charger
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No exposed hardware ports seems to be the direction it's been moving towards
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Some phones are starting to get limited by the size of the USB C port. So maybe.
(Latest galaxy fold)
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Heh at my age (and growing up with computers since the 90s well earlier but I didn't know cables well) I assume there's a new one next time I blink. Also at my age I don't realize I blink as often as I do. So just shrug buy the cables your devices need and not worry too much. Mean it sucks yeah, I got tons of USB cables I never use anymore, but it's how it goes. Much slower than it used to at least so less issue to complain. If they ever settled on some port that'd work for over 10 years I'd prefer that of course.
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I liked the old chargers. It was like you were stabbing the electricity into them.
USB-C will be destroyed by Romulans and next we will have USB-D.
If companies can stop cheaping out on their USB-C ports that'd be cool.