We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The USB-C connector has seen mass adoption over the past decade, and is now found on nearly every device from expensive phones and laptops to ...

USB Type-C is the most flexible connection for notebooks and smartphones. The most important of its many capabilities is as a charging socket for battery-powered devices. USB-C should finally make ...

Apple announced on Sept. 12, 2023, that it plans to adopt the USB-C connector for all four new iPhone 15 models, helping USB-C become the connector of choice of the electronics industry, nine years ...

Most people have a drawer or cabinet filled with USB cables for all the devices in their lives. Keeping track of which cable is which can be a nightmare, especially when it comes to USB cables with ...

If you’ve bought a new gadget in the last few years, chances are it has a USB-C (also referred to as a USB Type-C) charging port. All the latest MacBooks, Chromebooks and Windows laptops have at least ...

While iPhones dominate the US smartphone market, if you venture outside the states, you'll find that Android is the world's most popular OS for mobile devices, and it's not even close. Even within the ...

which like Apple's Lightning connector will be reversible so that there's no "wrong" way to plug it in. Click to expand... You know, it's the little details that count. People call the fingerprint ...

In the six months that have passed after the last USB-C article has been released, I have thought up a bunch of ways that these articles could have been improved. It’s, of course, normal to have such ...

If your laptop has a full-functioned Type-C port, that means you can use that single port to transfer data, audio, video, and power. Most full-functioned Type-C ports will have a unique lightning bolt ...

Most USB 2.0 flash drives look the same, but that doesn’t mean they perform the same. Differences in the type of memory and, to a lesser extent, the type of I/O controllers used by USB drives can make ...

Can laptops with USB4 ports use Thunderbolt 4/5 docks? Yes, but it's complicated. USB4 brings cross-compatibility with Thunderbolt 3 and can support the same features/bandwidth as Thunderbolt 4 (and ...