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localhost443@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The transfer speed over USB on mine probably doesn’t even pass USB 2 speeds anyway and I’ve had flagship phones in the past that were even slower over a cable. I guess it that’s still the case then there’s probably a good engineering argument to reduce complexity.

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JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Or there wasn’t good enough engineering to begin with to achieve usb 3 speeds. Seems like they should have got it right before using it as a reason to cripple the thing further.

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- localhost443@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Eh I don’t really see a necessary use case to get angry over it… Transfers over WiFi have been faster than USB on pretty much all phones for a while now, and way more convenient.
  
  I just drop files into my phone with kde connect. It means I can even start a transfer and wonder off with the phone and the mesh network keeps it going
  
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carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I just checked my phone and the up/down speed for files is roughly 40MB/s despite having a USB 3 connection.

USB 2 has a max. transfer rate (under optimal conditions) of 60MB/s, so I think when the phone storage improves a bit or the cable is a bit longer it will likely become a bottleneck.

Also note that there are other applications than transfering files which might need more bandwidth.

To be fair it really doesn’t make much of a difference but USB 3 is now the standard for a century and has been around since 2008 so I somewhere expect a 600€ phone to alsl have it.

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