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05-15-2008, 09:48 AM
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 |  USB, mini USB, microUSB!  not that its important or anything ,but in my opinion, dont you think that all of the different size USB's there are(or will be) kinda defeats the purpose of the "universal" in USB? |
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05-15-2008, 09:54 AM
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   | yea... i agree and wonder on a regular basis why they got all the different ones, guess they want to keep selling stuff.
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 | meh, the wiring is all the same, the size is just different to fit into different devices Any way the universal is referring to the fact that any kind of device can be plugged into a PC using USB (rather than having to use a parallel port for a printer and a serial port for a camera, and a PS/2 port for a mouse and keyboard and so on) Now they all use a similar transmission standard and can be plugged into any USB port on the back of your PC. Part of the original idea was to have a whole bunch of USB ports on a PC and nothing else. you could plug anything in anywhere and it would work.
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| micro will be the standard on future phones. some advocacy group pushed for it because of all the different chargers. By this phone for only 99.99. Want a charger? 29.99 (used to be able to make a deal for this) Want a clip? 12.99 and up. The cheesy clips that came with flip phones was cheesy, but at least it wasn't sold separately.
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| Since I apparently missed the edit, thanks rb! Sprint also tried that years ago, for a while most of their phones could use two different chargers: the manufacturer's charger, and a "standard" Sprint charger. Worked well for me, I used the same charger for 5 years until I got my Q. My wife now uses it since many of Sprint's dumb phones still use that setup. |
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