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iPhone 11 may finally ditch Lightning for USB-C

1 week

Apple has been dancing around adding USB-C to the iPhone for some years now, despite their laptops having almost exclusively USB-C ports and their best iPads also being USB-C powered. It seemed Apple was reserving USB-C for their ...

Apple won’t switch to USB-C for 2019 iPhones

by Pradeep

4 months

While the whole tech industry is trying to move forward with the new USB-C standard, Apple is trying to play its part to slow down the transition. According to the report by Macotakara, Apple will stick with Lightning port for 201...

Panos Panay offers weak reason why Surface Pro 6 and Surface Laptop 2 lack USB-C

by Surur

8 months

Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 6 and Surface Laptop 2 has much-improved internals but lacks one prominent feature – USB-C ports. This is the second year Microsoft has shunned the future of USB connectivity, making the up...

The EU may force Apple to drop the Lightning connector

by Surur

10 months

The EU has proven that they are not shy to intervene on behalf of consumers, even against vast multi-national companies. Now Margrethe Vestager and Elzbieta Bienkowska, from the EU Commissioners for Competition and the Internal Ma...

Future Windows Mixed Reality headsets will only need one USB-C cable

by Surur

11 months

Current Windows Mixed Reality headsets use an unwieldy combination of HDMI and USB-C ports, but a new industry consortium led by NVIDIA, Oculus, Valve, AMD, and Microsoft today introduced the VirtualLink™ specification — ...

Microsoft’s long-awaited Surface USB-C dongle finally coming on the 29th June

by Surur

12 months

The universal USB-C connector has been gaining traction for some years now, making Microsoft’s 2017 release of the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop without the increasingly ubiquitous connector quite puzzling. At the time Micr...

Apple to officially bless USB-C with 2019 iPhone

by Surur

1 year

It comes as a big annoyance to many users, but Apple remains the technological trendsetter, and despite usually not being first, a technology never really arrives until Apple adopts it. Examples range from capacitive screens to sm...

Microsoft planning to release USB-C adapter for Surface devices later this year

by Pradeep

1 year

Two of the recently introduced Surface devices: the Surface Laptop and Surface Pro, do not include a single USB Type-C port. A lot of users are disappointed by the fact that Microsoft is still sticking to Type-A ports, but Microso...

Samsung introduce a range of USB-C-powered monitors at IFA 2017

by Surur

2 years

Samsung Electronics today announced three new professional monitors for the modern workplace, the CH89 (34-inch curved model), CH80 (27-inch curved model) and SH85 (23.8- and 27-inch flat-screen models) at IFA 2017. The CH89, CH80...

Microsoft’s favourite immature standard gets another tweak

by Surur

2 years

Microsoft is not the biggest fan of USB-C, despite being part of the USB 3.0 Promoter Group, blaming it for causing consumer confusion and dissatisfaction. Microsoft hopes this will change in the future, but with USB-C being a m...

This may be Microsoft’s USB-C compatible Surface connector (but it’s not all good)

by Surur

2 years

Microsoft received a lot of criticism for not replacing the Surface connector in their new range of Surface devices with USB-C ports, but Microsoft has insisted they were simply not happy with the user experience the port provide...

Intel is working with Microsoft to enhance support for Thunderbolt 3 on Windows

by Pradeep

2 years

Today, Intel made some major announcements related to Thunderbolt 3 I/O standard. Thunderbolt 3 aims to be the one USB-C connector that can support high-performance single-cable docks, 4K photos and video, VR, and more. Intel toda...