Why we don’t need USB 3.0 ports on our smartphones or tablets

Posted on by Joe Levi

The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has a somewhat unusual USB port on it. No, it’s not reinventing one proprietary connector into another proprietary connector like Apple recently did with their “you can plug it in upside down” Lightning connector. Instead, Samsung opted to go with a standard port, albeit an ugly one: USB 3.0. Some are touting the inclusion of this new port as “revolutionary” or “a step in the right direction”. To be frank, it’s kind of silly. ...

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The Port-Free Smartphone: Fiction or the Future?

Posted on by Michael Fisher

We were doing some speculating on last week’s episode of the Pocketnow Live, and, as tends to happen, we got to talking about the future. Not the distant future, where embedded transceivers and wearable gadgets have replaced the smartphone, but some time before that. An era close to our own, with smartphones in nearly every pocket and more connectivity than ever, but with an important catch: this ...

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