USB Connectors

As mobile devices get increasingly slimmer, so too will their corresponding USB connectors. Even better, you won't have to flip the cable when you try to slip it in upside down. Finally. Just when you thought that jamming that cable to the fax machine was too much, along came internet fax. Now we have cables that are even better. Personally, it might be a great thing that not everything is going wireless simply because of the ability to intercept it or it not working properly. To pack the powerful punch of the USB 3.1 standard, which can move data at 10 gigabits per second, into a smaller cable, it will closely resemble the USB 2.0 Micro-B. But it has a few advantages over existing models: Specifically, it's reversible, meaning users no longer need to worry about plug orientation. The plug design is similar to Apple's Lightning cables and will take away one of USB's main frustrations. The downside is that the new cables won't work with existing connectors. With innovations of the cables, the ports need to be able to keep up.