• jarfil@beehaw.org
          7·
          10 months ago

          So like mini-USB?

          Still, is it the plug, or the socket that breaks? I’ve been holding for a long time that using sockets with tiny plastic tongues to hold the conductors, is a bat shit crazy move in consumer electronics, where a cable is prone to getting a lateral tug that rips the whole thing apart.

          This includes some old Samsung connectors, all of modern Nokias, mini-USB, micro-USB, and even USB-C.

          Old Nokias and Ericssons had the right idea: pogo/flex pins on the connector, and just a bunch of plates on the socket, so the cable would break but the socket was rock solid.

          • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
            4·
            10 months ago

            Magsafe is a really great idea, it’s just a shame Apple came up with it first and I can’t wait for it to be the universal standard for all types of external connectors forevermore. It’s as close as we can get to wireless without being wireless.

            • Phroon@beehaw.orgEnglish
              7·
              10 months ago

              Interestingly, Apple has donated the phone version of MagSafe to the Qi open wireless charging standard. Soon we’ll see a magnetically aligning wireless charging Qi2 devices from other manufacturers.

          • beefcat@beehaw.org
            2·
            10 months ago

            the socket. sadly this is a design flaw with every usb connector, even type-c.

            amusingly, Apple’s lightning is the only connector i’ve seen that seems truly designed for the cable to break before the socket

  • aperson@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    Just wait until you see the connectors that are dual lightning and micro USB.

  • clb92@feddit.dk
    9·
    10 months ago

    I’ve found that they don’t always fit properly in all female Micro USB connectors, but they are quite interesting.

    • sarmale@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      Theres a bendy thing in middle with contacts on both sides so they can fit in any normal microusb port

      • IcyPenguin@beehaw.org
        1·
        10 months ago

        That sounds horrible. These connectors probably break after the fifth time of plugging them in. Apple’s idea with Lightning wasn’t that bad I guess. But then they were to stubborn and it took them years to put USB C in their phones.