**Simplifying Your Life with USB Cables**

When it comes to using USB-C cables, one of the biggest challenges is understanding the different types of chargers and cables available in the market. With so many options to choose from, it can be overwhelming to decide which one is right for you. In this article, we'll explore some tips and tricks on how to simplify your life when it comes to using USB-C cables.

**Choosing the Right Charger**

One of the most important things to consider when choosing a charger is its wattage rating. Most devices support fast charging, but the amount of power they require can vary greatly. A 45W charger may not be enough for some devices, while others may require even higher wattages like 100W or more. If you're looking to simplify your life and avoid dealing with slow chargers, it's recommended to opt for a 100W cable that supports fast charging over USB-C.

**Avoiding Inconsistent Chargers**

There are several types of chargers available in the market, each with its own unique characteristics and limitations. Avoiding inconsistent chargers is crucial to ensure that your device charges quickly and safely. Some common types of chargers include 60W, 40W, and 2.4W cables, which may not be enough for certain devices or applications. For example, if you have a power bank that can charge up to 140W, a 100W cable should be more than sufficient.

**Logistics of Fast Charging**

When it comes to fast charging, there are several factors to consider beyond just the charger and cable used. One of the most important things is how quickly you can plug in your device into a proper charger. Avoiding wireless chargers, which are always slower than traditional cables, is crucial to achieving maximum charging speed. Additionally, make sure to keep your device cool during charge by avoiding direct sunlight or placing it on a surface that isolates heat.

**Tips for Fast Charging**

To get the most out of your USB-C cable and charger, follow these simple tips: plug in as soon as possible and unplug as the last thing you do before leaving your house. This ensures that your device charges quickly and safely. Also, avoid putting your device in direct sunlight or on a surface that isolates heat, as this can slow down charging speeds.

**The Truth About USB Standards**

One of the biggest challenges when it comes to using USB-C cables is navigating the complex web of standards and certifications. With so many different types of chargers and cables available, it's easy to get confused about which one is right for you. The truth is that USBC is a mess, and it really needs to be improved. Standards should be made to simplify people's lives by providing clear labeling and enforcement.

**The Future of USB**

As the technology continues to evolve, it's essential to prioritize user-friendliness and compatibility. With so many different types of chargers and cables available, it's time for a more standardized approach. By simplifying our understanding of USB standards and certifications, we can make technology more accessible and enjoyable for everyone.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, simplifying your life when it comes to using USB-C cables is all about choosing the right charger and cable for your needs. By following these simple tips and tricks, you can achieve fast charging speeds and make your life easier. Remember to avoid inconsistent chargers, follow proper logistics, and prioritize user-friendliness and compatibility in the future of technology.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enlet's talk batteries particularly how somehow it's still one of those subjects that is still riddled with misinformation like I bet you still know people that believe in battery memory and are too afraid to charge their phones intermittently or or even better people that just close apps just as soon as they're done with them and are just always frantically closing everything that's open you know those people but you know I digress today today let's focus on charging the myths the truths and um everything that you need to know to get the best charging experience possible ible particularly when you just need it the most when you're leaving the house and you have just a minimal amount of charge how can you get that charge up to speed as fast as possible on as many devices as possible with you know important caveats but without deling too much into the weeds of things with the Advent of this little Port USBC was a promise USBC was supposed to make everything simpler one Cable ONE Port to rule them all and the dream of USBC was born with this promise uh the idea was you pretty much get a charger you get a cable and it plugs in and no matter if you have an Android phone even an iPhone at this point and you just plug it in and it works kind of works like if if you just want to get a charge and that's the entire point of it yes it technically works and it charges no matter the type of cable no matter the type of charger you will get some charge but if you want to get the optimal charge charge or charge as fast as possible there are plenty of small little details that you should really take under consideration very basically when it comes to the hardware side of charging over USBC the single most important variable to take under consideration is the charging protocol this is pretty much the language in which the charger and the phone communicate by and they have to agree that they both support this language in order to achieve the Max rated charging speeds some of the most common names are USB PD or USB power delivery you also have Samsung super fast charging which is a variation of power delivery but Samsung puts their name on it you also have Qualcomm with their standards and OnePlus with super vuk and Huawei with super hypercharge or you know so it's a lot of Standards it definitely can get quite confusing so here's my sort of general advice that applies to pretty much 99% of people that just don't want to spend their entire afternoons searching charging protocol calls and how to maximize their experience USB power delivery is the most common amongst phones laptops and many other devices Google uses it Apple uses it and it is compatible with all devices albea it isn't the fastest protocol for certain devices that also support their proprietary standards for those devices that support the proprietary standards like OnePlus Asus with their rphone 8 Pro or Huawei you want to use the charger that came in the box with the device if you want to achieve achieve the absolute maximum power delivery that they can accept and then there's the cables they all look very similar so it's quite easy to get confused but there can be some quite significant differences between them like for example when it comes to charging cables USBC pretty much divides itself into 60 WT cables 100 WT cables and 2 40 WT cables this is pretty much the marketing language that you'll see on Amazon if you just search for cables but they split themselves into pretty much the power capabilities that they can transfer and that's pretty much dictated by a chip in the connector itself if the cable doesn't have a chip in the connector it will be limited to around 60 ws and 3 amps of power if they have this chip they can go up to 5 amps those are the 100 wat cables and there's still cables that go up to 240 WTS that support a special 48 volt mode at 5ms but those these days are mostly not really necessary for most devices but unfortunately it isn't as simple as matching a device maximum power that it can charge with with a cable that charges at about the same level like for example if you get a Samsung device like an s23 s22 s24 doesn't really matter a recent device they will charge up to 45 wats but you will need a 100 W power cable to be able to achieve the maximum charging speed that it can you know achieve that seems counterintuitive because a 60 W cable should be more than enough to charge at 45 Watts but you kind of need the five amps that are only available on the 100 W cables uh to reach this uh sort of charging speed so it can get quite confusing but you know here's here's here's a general piece of advice uh if you're trying to simplify your life when it comes to the cables just buy the 100 watt cables like for most devices if you're charging a laptop if you're charging uh a phone if you're charging uh pretty much anything that supports fast charging over USBC a 100 WK cable will be enough for everything like there's still space for a cable to not be good enough even if you get a 100 W cable like you might be able to not just be a good cable that can happen but as a general rule avoid the 60 wat cables because sooner or later that cable is not going to be good enough for a device that you upgrade down the line and a a USB cable can last you uh a really long time and since we're on it just avoid the 2 40 W cables that are usually quite a bit more expensive and short lengths um so there really isn't much of a point so unless you really know that you need it like you have uh a power bank that can charge up to 140 wats or a laptop that can you know push all that juice just a 100 wat cable should be more than good enough for most people and finally let's talk about the logistics of actually getting the fastest charging possible like picture this uh you're late you have to leave your home and you need to get as much charge as humanly possible what's what's the game plan what's the first thing that you're going to do now I'm not going to sit here and advise you to follow some of the most common pieces of advice that you hear around like put your phone in power saver mode or uh turn on airplane mode or turn off your device because in the real world like if you're in a rush to get away or to leave your house you should be uh reachable like people should be able to call you uh if they need to because you're probably going somewhere or beating someone so airplane mode or turning off your device sounds like a bad idea and power saver you know all these tips can marginally help you because really the thing with charging is you reduce the power that goes out and you increase the power that goes in the biggest the difference the fastest the device is going to charge but realistically the most important thing is how quickly can you plug in your device into a proper charger and how cool can you keep that device during charge like avoid wireless chargers because they'll always be slower so follow the tips in the beginning of this video to get a good charger that provides the power the phone needs with a decent cable just plug it in as soon as possible and unplug it as the last thing you do once you're leaving your house and when it comes to heat you know just avoid putting it in direct sunlight or on top of something that's you know fluffy like your bed covers or something that usually isolates the heat inside and doesn't really help the phone to retain the max charging speed and phones really really throttle charging if they are too hot and can't really you know remain at a safe temperature during charging and that's pretty much it that's pretty much everything that you can do to actually get that charge as quickly as possible look the truth is USBC is confusing there's a bunch of different variables and I only talked about the charging side of things there's a whole other world when it comes to the data transfer speeds but uh it is difficult to make a video that both gives you the actual truth and the actual information whilst at the same time gives you enough tools to make that information actionable because you know information for information sake isn't really interesting for most people like I enjoyed being hunched over on a power meter and just measuring how much power a device is pulling from the wall because I like to seek the actual truth about a particular subject but most people just don't care and they shouldn't really standards should be made to make people's lives easier and in reality USBC is a mess and it really should be improved when it comes to how these standards are enforced how cables are marked clearly and how sort of charging standards all converge towards a more common more userfriendly and more compatible standard that you know just simplifies people's lives because you know that's that's the entire point of tech make life easier or I don't know at least that's how I feel about tech yeah oh that's pretty much it I think that's everything about usb I hope you enjoyed the video and um I'll see you very soon with more USB stuff and hopefully other topics that aren't as confusing okay um yeah byelet's talk batteries particularly how somehow it's still one of those subjects that is still riddled with misinformation like I bet you still know people that believe in battery memory and are too afraid to charge their phones intermittently or or even better people that just close apps just as soon as they're done with them and are just always frantically closing everything that's open you know those people but you know I digress today today let's focus on charging the myths the truths and um everything that you need to know to get the best charging experience possible ible particularly when you just need it the most when you're leaving the house and you have just a minimal amount of charge how can you get that charge up to speed as fast as possible on as many devices as possible with you know important caveats but without deling too much into the weeds of things with the Advent of this little Port USBC was a promise USBC was supposed to make everything simpler one Cable ONE Port to rule them all and the dream of USBC was born with this promise uh the idea was you pretty much get a charger you get a cable and it plugs in and no matter if you have an Android phone even an iPhone at this point and you just plug it in and it works kind of works like if if you just want to get a charge and that's the entire point of it yes it technically works and it charges no matter the type of cable no matter the type of charger you will get some charge but if you want to get the optimal charge charge or charge as fast as possible there are plenty of small little details that you should really take under consideration very basically when it comes to the hardware side of charging over USBC the single most important variable to take under consideration is the charging protocol this is pretty much the language in which the charger and the phone communicate by and they have to agree that they both support this language in order to achieve the Max rated charging speeds some of the most common names are USB PD or USB power delivery you also have Samsung super fast charging which is a variation of power delivery but Samsung puts their name on it you also have Qualcomm with their standards and OnePlus with super vuk and Huawei with super hypercharge or you know so it's a lot of Standards it definitely can get quite confusing so here's my sort of general advice that applies to pretty much 99% of people that just don't want to spend their entire afternoons searching charging protocol calls and how to maximize their experience USB power delivery is the most common amongst phones laptops and many other devices Google uses it Apple uses it and it is compatible with all devices albea it isn't the fastest protocol for certain devices that also support their proprietary standards for those devices that support the proprietary standards like OnePlus Asus with their rphone 8 Pro or Huawei you want to use the charger that came in the box with the device if you want to achieve achieve the absolute maximum power delivery that they can accept and then there's the cables they all look very similar so it's quite easy to get confused but there can be some quite significant differences between them like for example when it comes to charging cables USBC pretty much divides itself into 60 WT cables 100 WT cables and 2 40 WT cables this is pretty much the marketing language that you'll see on Amazon if you just search for cables but they split themselves into pretty much the power capabilities that they can transfer and that's pretty much dictated by a chip in the connector itself if the cable doesn't have a chip in the connector it will be limited to around 60 ws and 3 amps of power if they have this chip they can go up to 5 amps those are the 100 wat cables and there's still cables that go up to 240 WTS that support a special 48 volt mode at 5ms but those these days are mostly not really necessary for most devices but unfortunately it isn't as simple as matching a device maximum power that it can charge with with a cable that charges at about the same level like for example if you get a Samsung device like an s23 s22 s24 doesn't really matter a recent device they will charge up to 45 wats but you will need a 100 W power cable to be able to achieve the maximum charging speed that it can you know achieve that seems counterintuitive because a 60 W cable should be more than enough to charge at 45 Watts but you kind of need the five amps that are only available on the 100 W cables uh to reach this uh sort of charging speed so it can get quite confusing but you know here's here's here's a general piece of advice uh if you're trying to simplify your life when it comes to the cables just buy the 100 watt cables like for most devices if you're charging a laptop if you're charging uh a phone if you're charging uh pretty much anything that supports fast charging over USBC a 100 WK cable will be enough for everything like there's still space for a cable to not be good enough even if you get a 100 W cable like you might be able to not just be a good cable that can happen but as a general rule avoid the 60 wat cables because sooner or later that cable is not going to be good enough for a device that you upgrade down the line and a a USB cable can last you uh a really long time and since we're on it just avoid the 2 40 W cables that are usually quite a bit more expensive and short lengths um so there really isn't much of a point so unless you really know that you need it like you have uh a power bank that can charge up to 140 wats or a laptop that can you know push all that juice just a 100 wat cable should be more than good enough for most people and finally let's talk about the logistics of actually getting the fastest charging possible like picture this uh you're late you have to leave your home and you need to get as much charge as humanly possible what's what's the game plan what's the first thing that you're going to do now I'm not going to sit here and advise you to follow some of the most common pieces of advice that you hear around like put your phone in power saver mode or uh turn on airplane mode or turn off your device because in the real world like if you're in a rush to get away or to leave your house you should be uh reachable like people should be able to call you uh if they need to because you're probably going somewhere or beating someone so airplane mode or turning off your device sounds like a bad idea and power saver you know all these tips can marginally help you because really the thing with charging is you reduce the power that goes out and you increase the power that goes in the biggest the difference the fastest the device is going to charge but realistically the most important thing is how quickly can you plug in your device into a proper charger and how cool can you keep that device during charge like avoid wireless chargers because they'll always be slower so follow the tips in the beginning of this video to get a good charger that provides the power the phone needs with a decent cable just plug it in as soon as possible and unplug it as the last thing you do once you're leaving your house and when it comes to heat you know just avoid putting it in direct sunlight or on top of something that's you know fluffy like your bed covers or something that usually isolates the heat inside and doesn't really help the phone to retain the max charging speed and phones really really throttle charging if they are too hot and can't really you know remain at a safe temperature during charging and that's pretty much it that's pretty much everything that you can do to actually get that charge as quickly as possible look the truth is USBC is confusing there's a bunch of different variables and I only talked about the charging side of things there's a whole other world when it comes to the data transfer speeds but uh it is difficult to make a video that both gives you the actual truth and the actual information whilst at the same time gives you enough tools to make that information actionable because you know information for information sake isn't really interesting for most people like I enjoyed being hunched over on a power meter and just measuring how much power a device is pulling from the wall because I like to seek the actual truth about a particular subject but most people just don't care and they shouldn't really standards should be made to make people's lives easier and in reality USBC is a mess and it really should be improved when it comes to how these standards are enforced how cables are marked clearly and how sort of charging standards all converge towards a more common more userfriendly and more compatible standard that you know just simplifies people's lives because you know that's that's the entire point of tech make life easier or I don't know at least that's how I feel about tech yeah oh that's pretty much it I think that's everything about usb I hope you enjoyed the video and um I'll see you very soon with more USB stuff and hopefully other topics that aren't as confusing okay um yeah bye\n"