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>> Essential's engineers are developing a proprietary connector that serves double duty for charging the battery and expanding the phone's functionality over ti
by hrayr 10y ago
>> Essential's engineers are developing a proprietary connector that serves double duty for charging the battery and expanding the phone's functionality over time, one person familiar with the planning said.
This is unfortunate. I wonder where usb-c falls short in their design?
- johnchristopher 10y agoAnd then there's the EU market where it's mandatory for phones manufacturers to equip phones with USB charging.
- supercoder 10y agoThey'll just provide some dinky adapter.
- dave84 10y agoWhich is essentially meaningless right? My EU iPhone still has a Lightning port, but sure the other end of the cable is USB.
- johnchristopher 10y agoOh no, it's not. It's really a good thing that wherever you go now you know you can charge your phone with anybody's charger or computer. The iPhone is a minor special case.
- iainmerrick 10y agoExactly -- people forget that every phone used to have its own special power cable until the EU forced them to standardise. It was such a pain, especially for developers working with multiple phones, but even just trying to figure out which power brick is whose in a normal household!
- Steko 10y ago> are developing a proprietary connector that serves double duty for charging the battery and expanding the phone's functionality ... magnetic ... sphere-shaped camera add-on that shoots high resolution 360 degree photographs Mildly hilarious if, based on this leak, Samsung not only rushes a copycat feature to market first but is also first to file patents for it. Bonus internet points if their rushing it to market means it explodes.
- richardboegli 10y agoStrength. It is a connector, but you cannot fasten something using it. This is why they would have come up with a new connector. Hopefully it expands on USB C, as in the interface is USB C and they've just created a new fastener mechanism around it.