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Originally Posted by JSWolf
No USB-C. There are too many cables out there that are not made correctly that they could damage your computer and/or Kindle. And even some USB-C chargers are dodgy as well. There is no need for USB-C. You don't need the extra speed to send eBooks and microUSB works fast enough to charge.
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Jon, you might want to drag yourself in the 20's. Most USB-C ports in the last few years have implemented better protection that the Pixel Chromebook and measuring devices used by Benson Leung. Not to mention that quite a few of the questionable cables he posted about were adapter cables -- micro-A to USB-C for instance and not USB-C to USB-C cables. Most of those cables would work for charging a smartphone, the SHTF when you attempted to use the 3.0A charging current that laptops and Chromebooks supported.
I will admit that I tend towards purchasing brandname cables since physically, they tend to be better built. Nothing like pulling a USB cable out of the port and having the cover pull off the connector. For my Thunderbolt port, I've only used the manufacturer's 0.5 meter cable to get the maximum 40GB speed.
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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
To be fair, I don't think USB-C gets higher speeds in any way that's terribly relevant, I know USB 3.0 does 5 gbps and predates USB-C
(And could transfer 32 GB (the full storage size of the largest current kindle) in under a minute in theory.
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Hmmm... now if I had a ereader that supported the Thunderbolt 3 port on my laptop (same physical connector as USB-C), I could transfer 32GB in about 8 seconds and fully charge in about 5 minutes.