Micro USB 3.1 cable under development

uvarvu · 4 Dec 2013 at 10:53

FINALLY.

The USB 3.0 variant is butt ugly and has no place on a mobile device. I'm looking forward to some reversible cable goodness - I wonder if Apple will stick to their proprietary cables or follow suit?

kona786 · 4 Dec 2013 at 10:58

butt-ugly? what are you doing, making love to it?

Cosimo · 4 Dec 2013 at 12:15

kona786 said:
butt-ugly? what are you doing, making love to it?

Just probing...

uvarvu · 4 Dec 2013 at 12:30

Hehe - well the current cable looks somewhat half baked with the extra pins bolted on the end and it's too big. The replacement will be the same size as USB 2.0 micro B.

kona786 · 4 Dec 2013 at 12:31

Haha. Yeah could be sleeker. Reversible would be great too like you say

Fallen god · 4 Dec 2013 at 13:08

uvarvu said:
FINALLY.

The USB 3.0 variant is butt ugly and has no place on a mobile device. I'm looking forward to some reversible cable goodness - I wonder if Apple will stick to their proprietary cables or follow suit?

Apple will never use a standard cable, they make nice money with their apple tax on all 3rd part accessories.

Scougar · 4 Dec 2013 at 14:37

From that link: "Usability enhancements – users will no longer need to be concerned with plug orientation/cable direction, making it easier to plug in "

Indeed... finally.

The current usb port design on mobile phones is physically very weak, I hope they improve on how it's connected to the board.

BananaDunka · 4 Dec 2013 at 15:18

Current may be weak but it's still robust and works fine. How many phones have people had where the USB port has broken due to normal usage wear...

Glaucus · 4 Dec 2013 at 15:20

H god. Can they just design one with the next 10years in mind, ie a huge amount of available bandwidth unused.
Then stick with it. Can we also kill full fat usb off and can we start getting mice and other items that have micro usb or its replacement.

Oh and i don't see anything about magnetic locking

Welshy · 4 Dec 2013 at 22:27

I remember reading not too long ago that EU regulations will be forcing mobile phone manufacturers to use a standard interface soon. Regardless of the fact that the Apple connector is far quickly and more robust, they will probably be forced to use USB.

Don't quite me, but I don't think I made that up...

Glaucus · 4 Dec 2013 at 22:29

It's already in force, micro usb.
Hence why apple has to make a micro usb adapter.

Myshra · 5 Dec 2013 at 08:59

Scougar said:
The current usb port design on mobile phones is physically very weak, I hope they improve on how it's connected to the board.

It's actually rated quite strongly - 10000 uses+ but i think we all know that this isn't enough. Whenever I see people trying to plug USB cables upside down (the symbol is top people, how difficult can it be?

) I think of this

BananaDunka · 5 Dec 2013 at 09:01

Not all USB cables have the symbol on, especially 3rd party cables.

HecFam · 5 Dec 2013 at 09:13

I'm glad to hear it, i use my phone as an alarm, plugging it in in the dark is always a nice challenge. I hope its blue on the micro end <3.

Rusty! · 5 Dec 2013 at 10:12

Myshra said:
It's actually rated quite strongly - 10000 uses+ but i think we all know that this isn't enough. Whenever I see people trying to plug USB cables upside down (the symbol is top people, how difficult can it be? ) I think of this

It's not the simple, a lot of phones have the port upside down.

uvarvu · 20 Dec 2013 at 13:16

Looks like apple will be using this too!

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/...mmon-charger-for-all-mobile-phones-on-the-way

Ryan-3 · 20 Dec 2013 at 13:46

uvarvu said:
Looks like apple will be using this too!

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/...mmon-charger-for-all-mobile-phones-on-the-way

If this finally happens, we've actually managed to move forward

kona786 · 20 Dec 2013 at 13:51

uvarvu said:
Looks like apple will be using this too!

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/...mmon-charger-for-all-mobile-phones-on-the-way

where does it say that?

And they'll probably just sell an adapter like they do now. I doubt they'll change their port design again so soon.

uvarvu · 20 Dec 2013 at 14:02

If they don't change their port designs to be compliant then there will be penalties I imagine. The legislation is only in a draft stage but I'm expecting that workarounds such as USB to lightning adapters will be banned too. We'll find out when the vote takes place next March

kona786 · 20 Dec 2013 at 14:04

I hope they do change but I can't see it happening.