Although USB has set standards, you can find some odd cables and ports out there. So, why do some USB connectors have small ...

If you’ve been following along our USB-C saga, you know that the CC wire in the USB-C cables is used for communications and polarity detection. However, what’s not as widely known is that ...

A cables can support different speeds—USB 2.0 maxes out at 480 Mbps, while USB 3.0 and up can go much faster. Micro-USB ...

From cables to power supplies, it pays to know the intricacies of the USB-C spec if you want the fastest charging.

It’s essentially a basic USB-C charging cable and not the greatest one. We looked at the internal resistance of the cable itself and found it to be pretty mediocre. In fact, we haven’t seen a ...

Swapping GND and Vbus weren’t the only problem – the SuperSpeed wires were missing, meaning this was effectively only a USB 2 cable with a Type-C connector. The resistor required by USB spec ...