OnePlus is formally getting the hype teach rolling for his or her upcoming OnePlus 2, the followup to remaining yr’s (irritating) OnePlus One flagship. Today they introduced on social media that the telephone will be the first Android flagship to feature USB Type H, a reversible port that doesn’t care which method you insert the cable in (identical to Apple’s Lightning port on the iPhone).
The connection does extra than simply price units (which tops out at 5A/20V/100W vs USB 2.0’s 2.5V), permitting video output as smartly thank you to upper 10Gbps speeds. Google dedicated to the new connector again while they unveiled the Chromebook Pixel 2 in March, so we think it will additionally arrive on this yr’s Nexus launching at the finish of this yr. OnePlus turns out assured their flagship will be the first to use the new spec, so we think a OnePlus 2 release is true round the nook.
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