These are some of the best accessories you can currently get for your new iPhone SE, so take a look and pick what may be best for your device
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Pocketnow Daily: OnePlus 7 Pro Event, Honor 20 Pro Rumors & more (video)
On today's Pocketnow Daily, we talk about the event that will launch the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro, new information on the Honor 20, and more.
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USB 4 standard based on Thunderbolt, cross-compatible back to USB 2.0
USB 4 will bring the Type-C connector and pair it with the massive capabilities of Thunderbolt. Specs are to be finalized this year.
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You’ll know if you bought a fake iPhone 9 charger
Because it will take forever and a day to charge. Actually, even if it's a legit charger that properly fast charges according to USB rules, it may not work.
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Of course the new MacBook Pro requires a special adapter or cable to pair with iPhone 7
Are you even surprised? Were you expecting anything else after the new iPhone’s headphone jack-removing mess? At least be thankful those sizzling hot 2016 Touch Bar-sporting MacBook Pros, alongside the simpler, cheaper 13-inch version, all “cowardly” retain their traditional 3.5mm audio connectors.Of course, while that means you shouldn’t throw out your “obsolete” wired headphones just yet, it also leaves you with no direct ...
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Headphone jack moves closer to extinction with new USB Audio 3.0 standard
It’s not just Apple that wants to take away your “obsolete” 3.5mm analog audio jack. It’s also LeEco, plus Motorola (at least in part), possibly even Samsung before long, and ...
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Kaspersky scares us into not charging our smartphones ever again
Digital security company Kaspersky has warned us about many threats. Valid ones, too. Kinda not now. It has posted the 95 Theses against the Church of Charging.First, it attacks third-party chargers. It’s true that they’ve been the cause of explosions, injury and death, especially ones made with the idea of putting 220 volts through a USB port. But even with the charger out of the box, we’ve seen how ...
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USB type-C gains ability to securely verify certified cables and devices
USB type-C may be the wave of the future, bringing its advanced connectivity to the latest generation of smartphone flagships, but its rise to prominence has been plagued by some bad PR, especially as poorly-made cables and adapters infiltrated the market and found themselves blamed for damaging some expensive hardware. Retailers and concerned consumers had
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Monoprice launches cheapest, most diverse line of USB-C cables you can probably trust
For all the convenience and ease of use delivered by USB Type-C technology, the risks associated with buying certain faulty cables and adapters almost don’t make the “upgrade” worth it. Not yet, at least, though if you know where to look and who to listen to for pre-purchase guidance, you should already be safe and never worry your gear will ...
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OnePlus admits to non-standard USB type-C accessories, offers refunds
Google’s Benson Leung is on a quest, one that seeks to connect shoppers with the info they need to make smart purchasing decisions about cables and adapters designed to be used with their new USB-type-C-supporting mobile hardware. He’s been busy writing up reviews on this class of products, and calling out manufacturers when their hardware isn’t quite up to to spec. And that’s just the boat OnePlus found itself in a couple weeks back as Leung pointed out that some
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OnePlus, Googler spat over USB type-C cable standards compliance
If you don’t have one yet, the day isn’t too far off when you’ll find yourself bringing home a gadget with a USB type-C port. And while the new interface offers a number of advantages over the micro USB with which we’re now familiar, moving to a new port with a new physical connector also means picking up new accessories – and that spells cables, cables, cables. As shoppers first start looking for cables to connect all this new gear, Google engineer Benson Leung has been ...
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USB 3.1 is reversible, fast, and awesome, but here’s why you shouldn’t get excited just yet
Printers from yesteryear used parallel ports. Modems used serials ports — which were available in either 9- or 25-pin varieties. High-speed devices like scanners and external drives used to connect via any number of SCSI connections. A company I used to work for even made products that let you daisy-chain two together via parallel port, and even came out with a drive that you could plug into either a parallel port or a 25-pin SCSI port. Even common devices like keyboards and mice connected through a PS/2 or other style connector. Put another way, there were just far too many kinds of ...
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Reversible USB connector pictured: is this the future for smartphones?
Especially if you’re not an Apple user, it sure is easy to find fault with the company’s Lightning connector: it’s an unneeded proprietary design, it breaks compatibility with existing accessories, and cables supporting it can be damn expensive – we’ve heard all the complaints. But for whatever issues you may have, it’s hard to deny the utility of Lightning’s most compelling feature, the ability to attach the connector without regard for its orientation: it works just as well ...
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Which tethering method is better: WiFi, Bluetooth, or USB cable?
Tethering is one of those things that many of us got really excited about way back in the early days of cell phones. Here we had a little phone that we could connect to our laptop which would let us access the Internet or closed network (the office, university, etc.) without having to plug into a land-line to do so. Speeds weren’t all that great, but being able to work from anywhere often trumped that. Today we have our choice of various high-speed technologies offered by any one of a handful of cellular carriers. We also have numerous ways to connect our laptops to our phones ...
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EU moves closer to mandatory phone charger standard
By and large, smartphone manufacturers have embraced micro USB as the standard interface used for both charging, as well as interfacing with your computer. Sure, Apple’s just gotta be Apple with its doesn’t-play-nicely-with-others Lightning cable, and some tablets still use unusual proprietary connectors, but those are the exceptions that prove the rule. While that means that you can use the same charger on your Lumia 1020 as on your BlackBerry Z10 or Samsung Galaxy Note 3, there hasn’t been any hard rule in place mandating such compatibility. Going back years now,
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