In
December last year the technology consortium responsible for the USB standard
announced that the next generation of connectors would be entirely reversible – now the first picture of the new
plug has appeared online.
As
expected, the new design looks pretty much identical to Apple’s Lightning
connector - a proprietary standard which is also reversible and appears on the
latest iPhones and iPads.
The
new USB 3.1 Type-C is similar in size to the current Micro USB design
used to charge most small gadgets and will break computability with current
ports.
The
designs are not expected to be finalized until July and it will take many
months more before manufacturers start to introduce the new Type-C to their
products.
This
latest update to the most widely accepted connector in the tech world will
offer increased bandwidths of up to 10Gbps but for most of
the clearest advantage will never having to fiddle with getting our USB plugs
the right way round.
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