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Originally Posted by 4691mls
Yeah, my Kobo and Tolino have the wide part of the port facing one way while my cheap Lenovo tablet and my old Moto phone had it in the other. It sure would be nice if all the device makers agreed on which side is up.
My current phone is USB-C so i don't have to worry about direction for it.
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The thing is, there is an agreement -- it's documented in the USB standard, just some designers can't be bothered to follow it. They probably had a huge stock of the connectors already or got the wrong ones for 1 cent less per connector, and didn't care -- and why should they since nobody else cares and almost nobody actually knows about that little detail anyhow.