When was micro usb created

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Live Chat. Have A Question? Get help with Live Chat. Call C2G All change: Once all can change, all tend to. I may add some more references to this if it appears there is interest - or ask Mr Gargoyle. Accomplished by moving leaf-spring from the PCB receptacle to plug, the most-stressed part is now on the cable side of the connection. My point was that the Razr was an early adopter.

The early Razrs used mini USB. They changed to micro USB in slimmer too I think. This page has a large list of phones that use a micro USB receptacle. I have reinserted a comment re Razr's and added the list of relevant models. You have usefully highlighted that the answer was able to be improved by editing. Mayhaps it doesn't seem that way to you.

Either way, thanks for bringing it to my attention, and hopefully the new wording now properly conveys reality. Show 13 more comments. Conspiracy theories aside. I would speculate that part of the move is economically motivated. Thang Thang 5 5 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges. Various social networking pages have started just for the purpose of "hating USB Micro".

USB Mini did fine. Why switch? Also, why replace a better product with something that is worse? Digital camera is a paradigm shift and potential for improvement is there, so the people who bought into it expect improvement in the future. Do you buy a USB Micro expecting improvement in the future? It's not a paradigm shifting idea. It's just a connector. Connectors are meant to be reliable aid to the actual product. When it's not reliable, its purpose is defeated.

That makes it good to me, and by now I didn't have any problems with it, so I can't speak against it. Nor I want to mindlessly defend it. People got used to USB Mini, and, as far as I know, there were no issues with stability, connectivity. Cameras, cell phones, GPS, etc. All of a sudden, almost over night, everything shipped with USB Micro. All of a sudden, people's cables and chargers no longer work.

On top of that, new cables and chargers they get for new devices are all flimsy and don't last nearly as long. What gives? I can't blame all the hate blogs and social networking pages.

Show 6 more comments. Frank Frank 2, 5 5 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges. It's not clear why they couldn't coexist.

That's really all there is to it. It's thinner, and thus better. Majenko Majenko 55k 8 8 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I love the old micro-usb "kinked edges" connector. Far more robust in my experience. I find the bulkier design easier to use, can't comment on reliability, I've never had either a mini or micro usb fail.

I've had micro USB connectors fail, but not mini. I've had trouble figuring out the correct orientation of micro in the dark, but don't remember that being a problem with mini. I want to believe that micro is better because USB org says it's better, but I guess if it was shoved into the spec by a phone manufacturer, that might not be true. That's different. Show 1 more comment. Sean Butterfield Sean Butterfield 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. What you mentioned used to be natural for me, but ever since I got one of those, I'm in perpetual confusion.

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