Picture: Mini vs Micro USB
By Stefan Constantinescu on Sunday, May 27th, 2007 at 4:40 PM PST In Random
I’m too sexy for my ports
Too sexy for my ports
So sexy I creamed my shorts
Be on the look out, the new interface you see on the right is what will begin appearing on almost all the mobile phones to be released on the market. Mike confirmed that you can use this port for charging!
One my 20 Nokia New Year’s Resolutions: USB Charging
Oh great, just when they started putting in mini usb on the phones, now we have micro usb. as long a the adapters are cheap.
oh god my balls ache
will it work with a kyocera marbl?
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You’ve always been able to charge your phone even with microUSB. Blackberries have had it since the Blueberry was first released.
First of all Blackberries have been around almost as long as USB 1.0 and not all of them used USB charging. Second for SOME time the blackberries have been charged with MINI USB. This is a comparison of the new MICRO USB which will be on the Bberry Kickstart now oficially names the Pearl Flip
The new BlackBerry Storm also uses a micro USB port for both charging and connecting to a computer via a USB cable.
An excellent design, just a little disappointed that none of the old mini USB chargers and cables I have (laptop case, office, home, etc) will work, which I’d bought for my old BlackBerry Pearl for convenience wherever I happen to be.
the micro usb’s are so ugly. i have 1 on my nokia 5310 express music phone and its so ugly and tiny i like the usb port that htc gives their phone. thats 1 of the reasons why im bout to get a g1 or a htc touch pro. an
I just bought the bberry pearl flip and it also uses this micro crap… I have at least a dozen different USB cables at both work and home, and now none of them are good anymore for this phone… Blahhh.. However, the phone is excellent so i think i can get over it… Just a bit of an inconvenience..
I joyously tossed my old Nokia PopPort cables in the trash. Good riddance! As I unsuccessfully attempted to plug one of my many mini-USB cables into my newly acquired Nokia N81 8gb, I was overcome with a feeling of deja-vu………….
I can see the reasoning for micro usb and i’m all for it, if it means mobiles and gadgets can get even smaller. There was a time when phones were small. Admittedly they had less functions. If using micro-usb can mean smaller phones i’m looking to see more. A lot of the manufacturers are using usb micro now so i think within a little time we will see the majority of phones, mp3 players and cameras supporting it.
You guys are all retarded… They make mini usb to micro usb adapters for around $5 each…. The comment about micro usb is to make phones smaller just made this whole world dumber than it already is…
Everyone, Micro USB cables are readily available and just as cheap as mini USB cables. Just do a quick google search for micro usb phone cables and you will find them without a problem. My company sells them for under 5 dollars but I doubt I can post a link here.
The future is finally here! Micro USB will enable tiny phones for people who can’t talk good.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/856357878/
nice to know there is also someone out there with a wicked sense of humor.
Looks like the micro usb is designed to break the connector more than anything else. No visible advatange over the mini usb, which clearly looks more durable, both on the connector cable and in the device side connector which looks like it must just be a fragile ultra thin pcb board edge connector that you can snap easier than a toothpick.
this is just ridiculous.
mini usb is only just becoming commonplace now, and they have to go change it AGAIN?????? WTF you stupid idiots!
Micro-USB has more longevity than the larger, more widely found Mini-USB standard. Micro-USB slots are able to withstand 10,000 insertions, rather than just 1,000 for Mini-USB
taken from
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39616139,00.htm
Xepol, you have it backwards. The micro-usb is sturdier than the mini. The thinness and design make it more rigid and reliable when inserting and unplugging. I’ve had a couple of mini-usb connectors crap out on phones that were not abused. I’m glad my new BB 8900 has the micro connector.
it said in China, the micro usb used in mobile phone as data cable, charger cable, and stereo audio cable. But i am not sure of the last function, how about the micro usb defination when used in mobile…mail: denokang@gmail.com, MSN: alankkang@hotmail.com. by the way, I am in a cable manufacture in Shenzhen city, China.
Well, micro USB is the best definitely
It’s all part of industry’s continuous revenue generating scheme of planned obsolence for any charger/connector. Development of the next generation is already underway and is known as NANO-USB.
Looking for a Micro USB(5Pin) male to Mini USB(5Pin) male cable around 2′ long….if anyone has one please contact me, joshjhilgart@gmail.com