Phone chargers are a pain in the neck. It’s great that Apple has finally been forced to use USB-C on its latest devices, but ...

It’s 2025, and I had to buy a Micro USB to USB-C cable. It’s 2025, and I had to buy a Micro USB to USB-C cable. Victoria Song is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more ...

One major difference between the two is their physical appearance. The Micro USB connector is longer at the top and shorter at the bottom, so it can be inserted in only one direction. USB-C ...

replace the venerable USB Type-A connector, long considered the "default" version of USB, and is also small enough to almost completely supplant the Micro USB, Mini USB, and USB Type-B connectors.

Yet in one way, the new streaming dongle is frustratingly outdated: It still requires a Micro-USB cable for power. Just like rival Roku, Amazon continues to use a 13-year-old power connector ...

Today’s tech is also moving away from Micro USB, that smaller port with ... The oval-shaped USB-C port and connector is used to transfer data and power between devices. To the non-techy among ...

The connector is more squat in shape than those ... for travelers who need to charge devices via Lightning, USB-C, and Micro-USB but want to minimize the number of cables to pack.

USB Type-C is ... Lightning connector to USB-C last year with the iPhone 15. Apart from that, there are only very cheap bargain smartphones that still rely on micro USB as a charging port.

Micro USB, USB Type-B, and USB Type-C. (To say nothing of the many different color-coded revisions of the computer/host-side USB Type-A connector.) As the 2020s go on, though, the computing ...

If you upgraded your PS4 to a PS5, for example, the controllers switched from a micro USB port to USB-C. While many companies have adopted the new port in the years since its introduction ...