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Re:USB 3.0 Promoter Group Announces USB Type-C Connector Rea... by makomk on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @04:54PM (#8170098)
The cable that came with my Moto G improves on this by making the top, logo side slightly concave and the other side slightly convex. You can literally feel which way up you've got the plug.
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Re:USB 3.0 Promoter Group Announces USB Type-C Connector Rea... by unwiredben on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @06:11PM (#8170484)
We did that on the cables for the Palm webOS devices too -- the top side all had a silver depression for easy finger feel.
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Re:USB 3.0 Promoter Group Announces USB Type-C Connector Rea... by aidenn0 on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @07:32PM (#8170747)
And I still preferentially use my Palm Pre cables (back in the day, I dremmeled down the plastic housing of another usb-micro I had so it would fit in the touchstone, since I never unplugged that one, and could use the palm-pre one for other uses).
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Re:USB 3.0 Promoter Group Announces USB Type-C Connector Rea... by andrioni on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @10:35PM (#8171200)
That only helps when you know the cable beforehand. The cable that came with my Motorola RAZR i cable has the high relief on one side of the connector, while the one from my Nexus 7 has it on the other side.
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