Also USB-A
But the legend has it you still plug it in wrong way first.
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2024
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yeah, the charging cable for my JBL headphones had similar double sided plug
USB-C at home:
Ok, im ~~stealing~~ taking this and making a meme, thanks
Your meme is right above this in my feed, hah.
They sadly often don't fit. And are pretty fragile.
So just like regular micro-USB?
Even more fragile... Lets word it like that
So like mini-USB?
Still, is it the plug, or the socket that breaks? I've been holding for a long time that using sockets with tiny plastic tongues to hold the conductors, is a bat shit crazy move in consumer electronics, where a cable is prone to getting a lateral tug that rips the whole thing apart.
This includes some old Samsung connectors, all of modern Nokias, mini-USB, micro-USB, and even USB-C.
Old Nokias and Ericssons had the right idea: pogo/flex pins on the connector, and just a bunch of plates on the socket, so the cable would break but the socket was rock solid.
Magsafe is a really great idea, it's just a shame Apple came up with it first and I can't wait for it to be the universal standard for all types of external connectors forevermore. It's as close as we can get to wireless without being wireless.
Interestingly, Apple has donated the phone version of MagSafe to the Qi open wireless charging standard. Soon we’ll see a magnetically aligning wireless charging Qi2 devices from other manufacturers.
Just wait until you see the connectors that are dual lightning and micro USB.
I've found that they don't always fit properly in all female Micro USB connectors, but they are quite interesting.
How do they fit in the connector?
Theres a bendy thing in middle with contacts on both sides so they can fit in any normal microusb port
That sounds horrible. These connectors probably break after the fifth time of plugging them in. Apple's idea with Lightning wasn't that bad I guess. But then they were to stubborn and it took them years to put USB C in their phones.