Golden Navigation: How much do you know about the advantages and features of Type-C?

Type-C is just one of the three interface styles proposed in the USB3.1 standard. In fact, in the USB3.1 standard, there are three interface styles, one is Type-A (ie Standard-A, the most common USB interface style on traditional computers), one is Type-B (also a previous interface style), and the other is Type-C.

As more and more new devices pursue lightweight and miniaturization, the "huge" size of traditional USB interfaces has been difficult to meet the needs of device manufacturers and consumers. At the same time, the problem of repeatedly plugging and unplugging and searching for the "correct" direction in traditional USB interfaces has been widely criticized by consumers. Users urgently need an interface that can be inserted into both front and back sides like the Lighting interface. Especially in devices such as mobile phones that require frequent and large connections of data lines, the experience of plugging into the wrong interface once or twice a day is not a friendly experience.

Based on these problems, the makers of the USB standard launched the Type-C physical interface specification. The editor of Golden Navigation summarized several major features introduced in the specification:

    1、纤薄。

Unlike the traditional Type-A interface that is common in life, the new Type-C interface has been greatly reduced in size, only 8.3*2.5mm, and is more suitable for use in increasingly miniaturized computing devices.

  2. No directionality.

Similar to the Apple Lightning interface, the Type-C interface has no directional requirements, that is, it can be paired by inserting the front and back sides, which greatly improves the ease of use of the USB interface.

    3. Convenience.

However, in addition to convenience, the USB Type-C interface has another layer of symbolic meaning.

The USB standard was proposed based on a basic concept - standardizing the connection and communication between computers and other external devices. Since the USB1.0 era, people have designed the Type-A interface style used in today's USB3.1 standard for computers (of course it was not called this at that time), and this interface style has experienced the updates of three generations of USB1.1, USB2.0 and even USB3.0 standards. It still survives tenaciously in this world, and once dominated the USB interface types of most computers in the world.

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