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Old 02-02-2020, 07:55 PM   #75
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
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.

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.
Even some brand name cables are not 100% USB-C spec. So it's not easy to find a cable that's going to be 100% USB-C. I don't care that USB-C is the up and coming standard. It's the crappiest port ever put on any device. It's unsafe and unreliable. While you try to be safe, there are a lot of people out there who so not know about the pitfalls of USB-C and will just hit up Amazon to buy a cable and/or charger.

I do not find microUSB to be too slow to charge and transfer with my H2O.
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