If you're shopping for a new charger, or even a PC cable, you may have wondered if you should get a USB4 or USB-C cable. Here ...

"I plugged in the USB Type-C cable, but it doesn't display on the monitor" or "My laptop charges slowly." Even though the ...

USB-C did away with the annoying requirement to plug in a cable right side up, but USB-A and USB-C have other major differences.

USB-A and USB-C flash drives both have their purposes. USB-C is increasingly common, but USB-A isn't going anywhere yet.

We’ve now had at least five years of USB-C ports in our devices. It’s a standard that many manufacturers and hackers can get behind. Initially, there was plenty of confusion about what we’d actually ...

If you’ve been following along our USB-C saga, you know that the CC wire in the USB-C cables is used for communications and polarity detection. However, what’s not as widely known is that there are ...

"Which USB flash drive should I buy?"There are so many types, and they all look the same, don't they?What I'm introducing ...

Virtually all smartphone manufacturers have eliminated the 3.5mm audio jack even though it has long been the standard connector for a huge range of audio equipment over the past century. Most flagship ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Although cloud storage services and wireless local data transfers have reduced some of the reliance on flash drives, they are still ...