USB C appreciation thread + Thinner phones + Thinner laptops

>it's an open standard, as long as you only use the cable and charger included with your device

>>56305998
>+ No need for 3.5 mm jack
This is the only thing I disagree with

>>56305998
Fucking Nexus 5X doesnt come with type C to A so I had to buy a $1 chink cable

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>>56305998
>Thinner phones
>Thinner laptops

>>56305998
Retardation: the post

>>56305998
>insert at a slightly tilted angle
>snap off the center pin array in the female side
This is why lightning is objectively better.

You can bet that as USB type C gets popular and people buy cheap chink cables that are either too loose or too tight that people will jam the cables into the sockets and snap the center pin array on a bunch of devices.

>>56305998
>+ No need for 3.5 mm jack
How are you supposed to connect your phone/laptop to an analog audio system (like headphones, speakers or anything) without this jack, you fucking moron

>>56305998
>+ No need for 3.5 mm jack
What advantage does audio specifically have switching over to USB-C?

Nothing.

You're now moving the DAC from the smartphone to your headphones, increasing the cost and weight and power consumption of headphones.

>>56306653
>>insert at a slightly tilted angle
>>snap off the center pin array in the female side
>This is why lightning is objectively better.
I don't think you know how sockets work.

Also confirmed for never having even seen a USB-C port in person.

I got a pretty nice braided 10' usb c cable on amazon for $12. Been using it as a replacement for the short one that came with the nexus 6p. Pretty expensive for a cable but it's really sturdy and has lasted me a while so far.

>>56306668
you buy a dock like a normal person

>>56305998
>normaltrash memes
>normaltrash memes
>there are 20 competing standards. We need a new, universal one. There are now 21 competing standards.
>t. your ass
>appletrash memes
>appletrash memes
>there are 20 competing standards. We need a new, universal one. There are now 21 competing standards.

Sucide is your only option.

>>56306688
I should explain it better since you're going to reply with massive butthurt.

It's not possible to insert it at such an angle to do what you describe. The tolerance is not great enough in the port itself. It was specifically designed this way.

>>56306710
Except when you use a cheap chink cable or cheap chink tablets with USB type C ports. My LG G5 type C cable wiggles so much on my tablet that it'll become unplugged if I just touch the cable with 1 finger.

Tolerances and specifications mean jack shit to the chink making a cable for a buck and cutting every corner possible.

>>56306754
So don't buy cheap chink shit. Problem solved laddy.

>>56306799
Tell that to the rest of the world when these things get mainstream.
People will have both cheap chink shit, and cheap chink cables.
It's already a problem with cheap micro USB cables being out of spec.

Tfw don't like thin devices.
My phone is 3/4 inch thick and I like it that way

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>>56306693
>buying a dock

>>56306653
But.. Lightning 3 uses USB type C...?

>>56306921
no, that's Thunderbolt 3

>>56306977
Thunderbolt > Lightning though.

Is there any android phones with no Jacks and buttons?

Seems feasible to do it first because they have wireless charging.

>>56307120
>No power or volume buttons
No thanks famalam

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>>56305998
I think it's time to admit that the USB project is a failure

>>56307138
Why are you so angry

>>56306693
>dock
>normal person
stop

>>56307146
Because connectors are supposed to become better over time, not shittier.

>>56307138
>whe should get back to the PS/2 mices and Parallels printers

If devices start getting USB C, what happens to USB thumbdrives? Is there going to be a USB C version of those and everything else is incompatible?

>>56306624
Consider that we could have phones the same size as now but significantly reinforced due to the extra internal space available.

>>56306471
Type C to A is against USB specifications

>>56307170
No, what I'm saying is that there should be a new association for universal standards that develops more than garbage.

>>56306653
Type C needs the pins on the inside and not exposed because it can transfer 100 watts of power

>>56307174
They'll have both for a while until there are more devices using Type C than Type A

>>56307222
Google sells it for $16

>>56307237
You should get right on that, Anon!

>>56307275
Then they can't call it a USB cable

>>56307174
If devices start getting USB, what happens to Parallel port printers? Is there going to be a USB version of those and everything else is incompatible?

>>56307292
>thinking Google give a fuck

>>56307311
Take a look at the cable, it doesn't have the USB logo anywhere on it

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>>56306693
Are you serious?

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>>56306693

Real USB
>no flimsy-ass thin laptops
>nobody cares about shitphones
>an actual fucking standard
>more robust than shitty tinyass usb-c garbage
>it just fucking works
>stop reinventing workable goddamn technology you fucking morons
>seriously what the fuck

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>>56305998
>applel tries to push the firewire standard
usb wins
>applel tries to push the displayport standard
HDMI wins
>applel tries to push the usb-c standard
you guessed it OP

>+ thinner devices

No. And an angry FUCK NO. The benefit of USB C is allowing us to fit more ports, more battery, and make more useful computers.

I am a fucking man, goddamnit. I am not a woman or a hipster that wears skinny jeans and carries tiny laptops in my purse. When I'm at work, I have a suit and a regular phone fits unnoticeably in it. If I have a laptop at work, I just carry it the fuck around without trying to stuff it into a tiny bag, and the width and length matter more to me because they control where I can set it. Thinness just controls....how skinny and stylish the bag you might put it in is. And how impossible it is to replace even more short lived componenets.

>soldered in slightly faster!!!! sata SSD dies
>soldered in battery dies
>soldered in RAM dies
>modular = thicker, slightly more heat, slightly more inefficiency which can't be had with a tiny battery in a thin laptop
>buy a new computer

>>56307657
>apple tries to push the displayport standard
>hdmi wins

But DP is objectively better

>>56307706
Lelnovo pushed it too, and it's winning.

Why does /g/ hate displayport? Not supported by their discount gayman graphics card?

>>56307657
>HDMI wins
Actually for anything other than TVs, DisplayPort has already won, just ask this DP-lover >>56307706

>>56307770
We just need to get rid of Apple, honestly. They brought the smartphone cancer to the world as well as all this shit. No other company has convinced the world that we need shitty technology than crApple.

>>56306997
Yea, sure, considering they're 2 completely different things. Lightning connector > USB-C.

>>56307706
>>56307756
>>56307770
It's true that DP is better, but also was Betamax. You think about that.

>>56307899
We were already going to have smartphones

Apple just ensured that they would be cancer by setting the bar at "fuck users, get money"

>anything that might allow you to do something without somehow profiting apple with data/money is verboten by the locked down OS
>even repairing the fucking screen until people thretened to sue

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>>56305998
>No need for 3.5 mm jack

Wow just like in 2008!

>>56308047
without apple, android would not be an inefficient hack of a swiftly made iOS clone and might actually be more similar to chrome instead

>>56305998
>+ No need for 3.5mm jack

- DRM and HDCP up the fucking ass as a result

Fuck off with your shilling bs, I support USB-C as a data and power transfer standard but fuck what they're trying to do with audio

>>56308160
If we go back to this I swear to god I'm killing myself.

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>>56308160
Ah, the good ol' "what's gonna break faster - headphones or the adapter?" Disgusting.

Is there going to be a bigger and more robust version of USB C connector? I think it's pretty cool, but I wouldn't want to happen to pull on a printer's USB C cable; that small connector doesn't seem to be sturdy enough.

>inb4 hurr manage your cables
I don't want a delicate small connector when I can have a manly tough one in stationary peripherals.

>>56307303
Could you stop posting about le parallel port? Is that strawman your only counter-point?

>>56305998
> Thinner phones
>Thinner laptops
>No need for 3.5 mm jack

yea, you can go fuck yourself.

>>56306693
>bait: the post

>>56306669
>using a dac
>with a phone
holy memeing hell

>>56305998
>muh thin
Lift, you fucking stick figure nigger!
It's your fault that we're gonna lose headphone jacks in the near future.
You thin obsessed, noodle armed faggots are the ones ruining technology.
Off yourselves.

>>56306693
>shillberg mcdre

>>56305998
>muh thin
>no need for 3.5mm jack
Fuck you.

>>56309895
Your phone has a DAC too, dumbass.

>>56309895
How else are you gonna convert the digital to analog, you dip?
No 3.5mm means that manufacturers are not obligated to put in a DAC into their phones, since it could be put inside the headphone, because of digital output.

>>56310123
>No 3.5mm means that manufacturers are not obligated to put in a DAC into their phones
They are obligated, just think for a fucking second why. Hint: headphones is not the only way phones output sound.

>>56310260
>inb4 corporations remove speakers for the same kind of bullshit, except for the earpiece (which doesn't have good quality anyway)

>>56310260
>now you have to carry a shitty dac in your phone AND a shitty dac in your headphones
And you can't bypass the dac in the headphones so your only choice is to use a "legacy" external dac with "legacy" headphones.

>>56307657
>LG adopting USB C on smartphone
>Motorola adopting USB C on smartphone
>HTC adopting USB C on smartphone
>Samsung adopting USB C on smartphone
>Nexus adopting USB C
>Huawei adopting USB C
>Other Chinkphone adopting
>Asus adopting USB C on laptop
>Intel pushing USB C on their mini PC
>HP adopting USB C on laptop
>Most of the current motherboard are sold with USB C

>the USB C is doomed to fail because Applel is trying to push it

>>56310049
>>56310123
He was clearly talking about using an external dac or one built into the headphones.
He probably has one of those "portable dacs" the audio retards buy.

>>56310608
>He was clearly talking about using an external dac
>You're now moving the DAC from the smartphone
Um, no?

>>56307222
No C to A without proper resistors inside to prevent pulling 3 amps from the A-side is against specifications. Early cables were shit because manufacturers were cheap fucks who didn't realize this.

>>56310608
>You're now moving the DAC from the smartphone to your headphones
>moving the DAC from the smartphone to your headphones
>(smartphone + DAC --> headphones) will now become
>(smartphone --> headphones + DAC) and not
>(smartphones --> DAC --> headphones)
>I literally can't read but I'll shitpost anyway

>>56310627
You're now moving the DAC from the smartphone to your headphones,
>moving the DAC to your headphones,
um, yes? If the headphones dont have one built in youd have to use an external one.

>>56310713
His point was that you'll have to use headphones with a DAC and that sucks. Are you retarded?

>>56308724
He's poking fun. Parallel to USB-A adapters have been made, parallel to USB-C adapters will be made as well.

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>>56310540
I say good riddance to usb micro.
It was a shit design.
The retaining tabs are never manufactured to last and usually wear out within weeks.
The end of the cable is often made of two pieces, the inner contains the pins, while the outer is the shape you see on the outside. The outer attaches to the inner only by the pins sliding inside and a protruding bar goes over the inner and goes over a raised lump to hold it in place.
Over time the bar will bend, resulting in the outer metal piece wobbling around, leading the the retaining pins not sticking out far enough and the causing the plug to fall out.
Once the bar bends enough, the data, power, and ground pins will be able to contact the outer piece and short out. It gets hot enough to actually lightly burn someone, I have been burned by it myself.
Pic related.

>>56308239
Just use Bluetooth. Circumvent all the bullshit altogether.

>>56310758
Right. And my headphones along with almost everyone elses DOESNT have a dac.
How fucking stupid do you have to be.

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>>56310859
>needing to charge your headphones

>>56310859
Are there actually any decent bluetooth earbuds?

>>56310859
shit quality
shit batteries
shitty extra weight
all round shit

>>56310874
>What is wireless charging?

If you're going to put your headphones on a stand anyway, why not buy a wireless charging stand?

At the very least, you get a stand that pulls double duty if you ever buy another inductive charging device.

>>56310928
>>What is wireless charging?
Still charging, you colossal dumbass.

>>56310928
enjoy your cancer.

>>56310903
So your issues are actually just price and charging cables? That's pretty petty, considering you claim to "care" about audio.

You already have a bluetooth receiver in your car. Why wouldn't you just put it on a dedicated pair of bluetooth headphones?

>>56310893
No. Buy headphones and don't perforate your eardrums.

>>56310940
Wireless charging on a night stand... which you'd be putting the headphones on top of every single night anyway.

If you can't get your shit together enough for you to have a routine and lay out your EDC on a desk/in a bag, then you don't have the right to complain.

>>56310983
>You already have a bluetooth receiver in your car
i don't even have an aux port in my car. when i do my roadtrips i just put my earphones into my phone like any normal person.

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I'm only interested in it because it's multipurpose and because when it becomes ubiquitous, I can more easily set up an eGPU.

I don't actually want thinner phones, and laptops are already thin enough.

>>56311047
Normal people don't put shit in their ears while they drive.

Bluetooth to FM Radio receivers are literally $7 on Amazon, what the fuck is your excuse?

>>56311031
Given I never need to charge my current headphones and will never ever encounter the issue of not being able to listen to music because my headphones died, I definitely have a right to complain about such a retarded concept.

>>56311078
>Normal people don't put shit in their ears while they drive.
would probably take me less than 2 minutes to pull up next to someone using them.

also: see most truck drivers.

>excuse
mine is that bluetooth is literal cancer and has no place in the civilised world.

>>56311063
>thunderbolt 3 is slower than pci-e 2.0
>external gpu
What's the point?

>>56311078
>Bluetooth to FM Radio receivers are literally $7 on Amazon, what the fuck is your excuse?
Most of them provide horrible quality reception because of background noise. A Bluetooth earpiece is clear as fuck and can be used when you need to work with your hands.

I'm not going to bother quoting you faggots.

USB C is capable of transmitting analog audio using the phone's intenal DAC. You can make a passive USB C to TRS or TRRS adapter. USB C headphones without a DAC are also possible for the same reason.

It can also do digital audio and bypass the phone DAC.

DAC fags please go.

>>56311188
Buying an adapter that doesn't cost $40:
>Something went wrong!
>Please make sure this adapter supports HDCP

Using old BT headphones:
>Something went wrong!
>Please make sure these headphones support HDCP.

Using a music player not on the RIAA's payroll:
>Something went wrong!
>Please make sure this music player supports HDCP.

Fuck off.

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>>56305998
>>56306649
>>56307138
Widely under-appreciated feature of Type C is that your phone can now do HDMI out, go back to the fucking jungle if you want to stay with microUSB shit forever.

>>56311257
I gave you facts, you're just making shit up.

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>>56310845
This. Fucking USB micro never fits in to anything completely snugly. Those fucking retaining pins never last. I'm just about finished having to deal with shitty loose connectors

>>56311258
My phone already has a dedicated HDMI port. My next one is capable of HDMI and DP out via MicroUSB thanks to SlimPort.

>>56311289
You know that's what's going to happen.
It's already happened with monitors. Netflix can't play while my external monitor is connected because it doesn't support HDCP.

The only reason that they're phasing out the 3.5mm jack is to force DRM hard on our ass.

>>56311311
I really have a hard time seeing how they're going to somehow add DRM between a DAC output multiplexed on usb pins (read: doesn't use the usb controller). You should read the spec.

>>56311311
>HDCP
There has to be a way around this shit.
Whoever invented this stuff really needs shot.

>>56305998
>we need another standard connector for the universal serial bus because the other ones are deprecated
>there are now 16 standard connectors for the universal serial bus

>>56311590
its more like
>ever device on the market is now using the current standard
>its time to change the shape again
Everything should just use usb A. It just works. It doesnt brake. It holds itself in. It wont fall out. Its cheap as fuck.
Fuck your thin devices. I want something that actually works. Im done with the memes.

>>56311258
Its 2016, what shitty phone doesnt already have hdmi out?

>>56311652
Use that extra thickness for a bigger battery. I would fucking get behind it.

>>56311047
This is illegal in 17 states.

>>56311670
most flagships that also lack an SD card slot, as SD cards aren't needed in an LTE world since you stream whatever you need from the cloud, which has virtually limitless space.

The generally accepted way to transmit video is wirelessly.

If you're a poorfag and need an HDMI port and SD card on your phone because you can't afford cellular data, then feel free to call phones that lack these features to improve on spill resistance and security "shitty".

>>56311258
What's the point with casting?

>>56311781
>most flagships that also lack an SD card slot
So shit phones then

>>56311781
>as SD cards aren't needed in an LTE world
They are as long as fucking datacaps are a thing
>paying monthly for data you access repeatedly when you can just pay the one time fee of a microSD card and store it locally

>>56311781
>If you're a poorfag and need an HDMI port and SD card on your phone because you can't afford cellular data, then feel free to call phones that lack these features to improve on spill resistance and security "shitty".

Are you seriously retarded enough to trust things you need access too to the cloud? Its good and fine if you never leave your parents basement but some of us go places and have jobs so that kind of stupid is just unacceptable. Walk into a brick building or have a power outage and you have no way to access what you need.

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>>56311781
>SD cards aren't needed in an LTE world since you stream whatever you need from the cloud, which has virtually limitless space.

>>56311686
>hurr batteries are too thick, just plug in wherever you go muh fin fone

>>56311781
>as SD cards aren't needed in an LTE world
>since you stream whatever you need
>from the cloud,
>which has virtually limitless space.

Thinner phones is a bad thing dumbass.

>>56309895
>being an inbred retard and not knowing what a DAC actually stands for

>>56311781

>everyone has no data caps and perfect 90%+ signal strength at any location

Get fucked you autistic retard, do you even go outside? Fuck streaming data even, sometimes I can't even browse the damn web in central London on ''''''4G''''''. I'm a rabid and serial iPhone user but I can't knock the benefits of expandable flash storage especially when its so cheap now.

>>56313114
Go buy some more of those ceramic stands for your wires to not touch the floor.
Also your tin foil seems to be running a little thin from blocking all those radio waves, might be time for a new one before a hole wears through!

>>56313316
I am not even that guy, but fuck man, you do seem like you dont know what a DAC is or why people use them.

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>>56313426
Something that looks like this that audiophiles carry around because they think it does some magic shit or drives their headphones because they got the meme sized ones and the phone just simply can handle it?

>>56311781
I dowload pdfs from my phone and read them on a simple e-reader.

>>56313274

>Get fucked you autistic retard, do you even go outside?

this gave me a giggle, thanks fampai

>>56305998
>No need for 3.5 mm jack

so now i have to buy a fucking adapter to use my current headphones with my phone? Now i cant plug my shit into an external DAC/amp for better quality? And i cant charge my phone and listen to music at the same time?

fuck that.

>>56313274
>expandable flash storage especially when its so cheap now.
Its been cheap and has always been atleast two tiers above whatever is included in any phone you might have at the time.

>>56313576
Just throw away your current headpones and get the newer better stuff goy!
Dont worry if the usb cables break after a week of use! Remeber; You can just get another©

I never got the obsession with thinner devices, they are already pretty thin and light. Most people immediately put a case on anyway. It seems like most people want better durability, battery life, and long term support from their devices instead.

>>56313455
If you go by that metric, you could as well reduce all persons to Clinton or your retard of choice

>>56313682
What are you even trying to say here

>>56313666
Yea, but companies dont sell what their customers want anymore
The phone manufacturers are locked in a thin phone pissing contest that almost rivals "amd vs nvidia", and like their power consumption, the phone companies dont care what gets wrecked in the process.
>twf I have power connectors before the pci slots and on the cards so I can feed extra power into these things from every possible direction

my g5 charges pretty quick desu lads

>>56305998
Type-C is reversible. That's why I appreciate it.

>thin phones

I am so fucking salty about the perceived need for phones to be thin as fuck at the expense of battery life.

>>56305998
>Thinner phones
>Thinner laptops
More fragile electronics is not something I would enjoy.

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>>56308198
Android was originally going to be a Blackberry clone. (pic related)
Ugh, I want my Windows Mobile 6 devices back, infintely hackable, so many different ROMs and cool actual productive software. It's the main reason why I'm still using a Note 2, it's the closest to Windows Mobile in terms of hacker community and physical ports. The new Notes suck ass.

/blog

>>56305998

I love Type C. Literally haven't had any problems with it in the past three months I've been using it versus micro where I would have gone through a "high quality" cable by now

>>56307678
>I am not a woman or a hipster that wears skinny jeans and carries tiny laptops in my purse
So what are you doing on /g/?

>>56314448
>I would have gone through a "high quality" cable by now
If you treat your things like shit they dont last. I cant say I ever had a microusb cable break on me.

>>56313785
This is true, it's unfortunate people buy into it.

>>56311188
THANK YOU, I was beginning to think that literally everyone one on this board was a complete idiot.

I'm not a huge fan of the idea of using adapters for headphones, but since most people only use headphones with their smartphone anyway, I imagine they'll start manufacturing them with USB c plugs in place of 3.5mm.

I'd be all for it on laptops, however the companies that use them only like to include 1-2 and think it's okay to just ditch every port.

The future is wireless charging and wireless headphones/everything and thats the good way


Ofc you are on g with a bunch of rechnology hipster wannabee manchildren so dont expect anything non autistic from this discussion

>>56313455
You're actually mentally stunted and it's very sad.

>>56313750
You're retarded. DAC stands for "Digital-to-Analog Converter". It is pretty necessary to have your headphones work with your phone.

>>56315386
>not uploading audio tracks directly to your brain

>>56311096
And manufactures have the right to laugh at and ignore your dumbass, because the world owes you nothing, you consumerist piece of shit.

>>56317222
And I'll just stick with my current phone (or possibly upgrade to a slightly better model with essentially the same hardware) like I planned to do anyway. Nothing better's coming out any time soon.

>>56310629
>Early cables were shit because manufacturers were cheap fucks who didn't realize this.
no, they weren't cheap.
the prices of different resistances don't differ at all.
they just wanted to support the higher amperage, although it's against the spec.

"yes, yes, it supports 3A, no problem."

>>56305998
>HUR DUR MUH THINNERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
FUCK OFF

My new fucking Nexus 6P is thin as fuck thanks to USB-C and now I'm afraid it's going to fucking bend in my pocket.
Thin phones are a fucking meme.

>>56318211
If phones woukd be thick then you retards would be crying because of that

>>56307318
>>56307292
so?

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>>56306693

>>56306799

How do you plan on buying a lagdroid without buying low quality chink rubbish?

>>56318734
No I fucking wouldn't.

>>56307303

Your analogy is crap.

Printers gained a lot by going USB, whereas a USB-C flash drive functions the same as a USB-A flash drive, except it may be unnoticeably faster for large files.

USB-C is more like the MiniDisc - technically better, but offering more of the same.

I can't tell if OP is stupid or a troll. Most of this shit existed before USB C and he failed to address anything actually useful
>+ Multipurpose cable
>+ No need for 3.5 mm jack
>+ Open standard
already part of USB

>>56311258
it's called MHL, it existed before USB C, and having a C port does not guarantee having HDMI out (see: Nexus 6P)

now how about actually useful shit:
-reversible connector
-higher max amperage
-19V mode for laptops
-integral DisplayPort

OP is a troll and/or fuckwit.

>>56311781
But anon, my flagship has an SD card slot and offers full water immersion.

>>56305998
Lightning port I can understand removing 3.5mm, but USB C is really not any smaller than the 3.5mm, I mean just look at that picture

>>56307174

USB C thumbdrives and mice already exist.

>>56306420
It won't be a problem if there are multiple usb c ports.

>>56311553
The master key for HDCP is known and you can create a box that makes up valid keys at random every five seconds until a connection attempt succeeds. It's just that most people can't be bothered to buy this fakeout box when new monitors are so fucking cheap.

>>56314428
Around the same time they were working on that clone the Android SDK also had support for candybar style phones with captive screens

>>56320064
>phasing out a tried and proven industry standard for another one because it's newer

>>56305998
>thinner phones
Gonna get banned in britain. Dem sharp edges, man.

Macbook Airs are already confiscated at Heathrow.

ALL HAIL USB MICRO B

>>56314464
this simply isnt true.
It may be the case that you only use use on your cellpone and you never move your phone while its charging, but you need to realize that a whole shit ton of devices use usb micro. Cell phones, xbox controllers, arduino, raspberry pi, gopro. These devices are not all in the exact same spot. Usb micro simply isn't durable.

It might also be the case that you have a usb micro cable that is one piece, but as explained in >>56310845 , most of the cable are actually two pieces that are not fused to gether.

>>56320169
Cool, I didnt know anything about hdcp until a few months ago.
Is there any open sourced projects being developed, like hdcp stripper schematics?

>>56315386
Its something that should be left in the phone.

>>56319545
Literally the only good post in this whole sorry thread. Well said anon.

>>56307174
Most USB type C flash drives currently being made also have a type A connector.

>>56310648
I honestly love the idea of phone => (headphone + dac), but I'm extremely afraid some kind of DRM ruining everything AGAIN.

>>56306024
Kek... It's funny but in reality those issues will have been work out by this coming generation of devices

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>>56311258
wat
there are adapters for anything now

>>56320705
usb A is master race.
All other plugs wear out. Even original 90's A plugs are still good.
USB 3.0 A should be the standard on everything.

>>56306899
>not buying a dock

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>>56307657
>Apple pushes the superior standard
>pleb tier bullshit wins
I hate this trend

>>56321391
It's what happens when the thing you push is proprietary and if anyone else wants to use it they have to license it.

As it turns out, the winning standards have all been from third parties not involved in Apple and Google's silly little mobile device war

>>56322068
>That's not an adapter though. It's a whole graphics card.
No it's not. USB2.0 isn't capable of 5.4Gb/s, anon. Slimport is. It's a DisplayPort standard that shares the microUSB connector.
Regardless phones exist that do have straight up microHDMI out. I've got one. Hell over 5 years ago I had a tablet with miniHDMI out.

>>56307599
what's wrong with docks?

>>56311188
So now we need 3 adapters...

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>>56313316
>>56313455
>confirming that he's a clueless retard
oh boy!

>>56320562
absolutely, but if you want to be a fuckwit and remove the analog output, there is no other way to get the audio out the digital connector than to handle the digital to analog conversion inside the headphones themselves

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>>56321391
>active circuitry inside the cable
>exposed pins
>movable parts of the female connector (connector breaks - replace connector inside phone instead of cable)
>superior standard
you're so incredibly deluded, it ain't even funny

>>56323779
The fuck are you on about?

>>56310845
>>56311294
>>56320534
This happens on really bad cables, the one that came with my Note 5 was good until it broke.

Do you guys know of any good ones that can last me forever?

Is wireless charging any good? I am thinking about doing it for my Note 5.

>>56323865
first and last post you replied to here.
Ive never found a good cable, and the only way to know is to cut the boot off and look at it.
The main probelm with doing that is they are designed to have the rubber boot act as the thing that holds it all together.
I suspect its the rubber stretching over time that allows it all to fuck up.
Ive had many cables over the years, they all do this eventually. I'm hesitant to buy a $20 cable because most likely its just re badged chink shit cables.
Ive attempted repair on them before, the first attempt was a failure.
The second attempt was also a failure, learned solder wont stick to the cover at all.
Next Im going to try to weld it, mostly for the lulz. Ill be surprised if the whole thing doesn't just melt. The end product should always be considered a fire hazard.

>>56311158
isnt thunderbolt faster? if i remember correctly, pcie 2.0 x16 can give up to like 8GB/s, while thunderbolt three can do like 40

>>56311258
>Widely under-appreciated feature of Type C is that your phone can now do HDMI out
Shit no one ever uses. Yay. Do you know what a smart TV is?

>>56324017
I use my phone's micro HDMI port all the time.

>>56322210
>what's wrong with docks?
No one without autism uses those?

>>56320212
what the fuck is your autism?
>mocking progress

>>56324045
Okay, kid

>>56321301
3.0 gen 2**

>>56324037
Do you also stick a needle in your eye all the time. Because that is just as much fun as dealing with a micro HDMI cable on a fuckin phone.

>>56324053
I'm 35 grandpa. And no, no one uses docks on a phone if it's not for charging. This is not 2002.

>>56324079
>Do you also stick a needle in your eye all the time. Because that is just as much fun as dealing with a micro HDMI cable on a fuckin phone
What? Are you fucking retarded?
>I'm 35 grandpa. And no, no one uses docks on a phone if it's not for charging. This is not 2002.
It's actually quite common for workplaces to provide a dock with dual monitors instead of a desktop. It's also very convenient for use at home
>I'd rather have to plug in 8 cables than just plop my laptop on the dock

>>56324108
I'm talking about phones you fuckin moron. A laptop has all the plugs you need.

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>>56324108
>phone docks
Nobody uses those.
Maybe some macfag thats used to his iPod dock because hes invested in aplel.

>>56324140
Phone docks are also nice, you fucking moron.
>claims to be 35
>types and acts like a child
kek

>>56324152
Fuck off, you're the shittiest tripfag on /g/.

>>56324068
the blue/turquoise shit***

>>56319545
Well said anon.
If i'm not wrong, USB-C can handle 100W of load, which could be great for intensive electrical loads such as fast charging laptops or e-GPU's

>>56324079
What? I have micro HDMI out and it works with no problems. Also bought a HDMI to VGA converter and it also works. I'm not sure if I'll ever actually use it since pretty much the only times I need to connect to a display/projector is when I have some presentation and I use my laptop then.

>>56324051
>progress
Progress would imply moving forward, meaning some sort of improvement or advancement. There is literally no advantage to using USB type C over 3.5mm for audio. In fact, it's worse because now that you're working with encoded data and not analog signals, every USB pair of headphones or speakers you want to use has to have a DAC built in. It's just stupid not to use a standard that's been tried and true just because there's a shinier option.

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>>56306693
I read an article on cnet or some similar cancerous site "why you wont care about missing headphone jack" and the whole article was just autism

I fucking swear that is the most cancerous implementation to a phone a man could imagine, until comes out the plan to
>Just pay 5,99/mo to use our brand new OS-XY on your iPhone 8b+!

>>56325651
It was already mentioned USB C can support analog.

>>56318211
My bank card is thinner than that and it doesn't bend, stop being functionally retarded.

>>56325875
Chances of that happening are nill, they want this change so they can enforce DRM and that means no analogue.

>>56326650
Your bank card isn't as fucking big as my phone.

>>56323935
Wow, I might have to do wireless charging then.

>>56328200
Im pretty sure that is either a meme or a carcinogen of some form or another.
If welding fails I am going to try to retrofit usb mini into the micro receptacles place.
They say mini only had a life span of a couple hundred inserts, but I've never seen a mini fail.