Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day agoWasnt the case, at least for me. My phone supports up to 30W charging, and the only cable i have that supports that is the one that came with the phone
ragas@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Literally any USB-C cable supports charging with 60W.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C#Power_delivery
Note however that this is not the case for those USB-A to USB-C cables.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Yeah it is nice it can support it, that does however not mean they actually do. There’s so many articles and videos out there around the topic of badlx made usb c cables, this is a real issue.
E.g. here since you are probably going to ask for a source pcworld.com/…/buying-a-usb-c-cable-watch-out-for-…
ragas@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
Really you linked article is not very good in my opinion. It just recounts some common ‘wisdom’ without providing any actual data.
Sure, if you got scammed and your cable is not actually a functioning cable, then anything can happen.
However that does not change the fact that any USB-C cable has to support 60W charging.