Most smartphones these days come without a 3.5mm audio jack. While there are plenty of options for USB-C and wireless earbuds, some people still prefer their 3.5mm earbuds and headsets. Fortunately, ...

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USB has become as much a standard for connecting power to portable devices as it has for serial communication. Recently, the power aspects of USB have been extended to cover battery charging as well ...

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The next generation of mCube universal power adapters will be introduced at the 2010 CES including three that prove “big things come in small packages:” the mCube Mini, the world’s smallest universal ...

My wife has an iPhone 3GS and she's lost the AC charging adapter. I told her I thought all AC adapters for USB devices were equivalent (we have several others lying around the house). She is afraid of ...

If you want to charge your iPhone 12 using MagSafe, Apple recommends using certain 20W AC adapters — and they don't need to come from Apple, despite what you may have heard. We explain what the ...

Apple's new 10.9-inch iPad comes with USB-C instead of Lightning, and that means users can't charge or pair that Apple Pencil without an adapter. Instead, it is limited to the original, or ...

So I've tended to assume, possibly stupidly, that if a device relies on a USB power connection at all then any old AC->USB power adapter is fine to use for it and substitutable for a computer USB port ...