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Originally Posted by TheBundo
The issue is that most of us still have things running of the mini USB plugs, so in every car, there will now have to be the power port plug, and 2 cords. In a supposedly wireless age, I've got more wires than ever. Like in the paperless age, we are created more printed pages than ever. It's a paradox. And I don't see how the micro is enough smaller to make it worth the hassle. It seems like just a year or so ago that all sorts of manufacturers signed on to some worldwide agreement about the mini USB plug, and it seemed every new device used it for a while. What an improvement that was over the myriad of plugs before. Now it appears that the agreement is somewhat out the window, though at least these micro USB plugs aren't proprietary like in the old days
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Its not about being smaller with the new micro-usb vs the mini-usb, its about how many times it lasts plugging it in and out. Micro lasts thousands of "plugs" more.
to quote myself from a past thread..
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The newer Micro-USB receptacles are designed to allow up to 10,000 cycles of insertion and removal between the receptacle and plug, compared to 1500 for the standard USB and 5000 for the Mini-USB receptacle. This is accomplished by adding a locking device and by moving the leaf-spring connector from the jack to the plug, so that the most-stressed part is on the cable side of the connection. This change was made so that the connector on the (inexpensive) cable would bear the most wear instead of the micro-USB device.
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