Reply to post: Re: Not just phones

EU wants one phone plug to rule them all. But we've got a better idea.

Dave 126 Silver badge

Re: Not just phones

That 'special' cable was just a normal cable with the data pubs shorted. It was a common policy in miniUSB days. The idea was stop a device drawing more than 500mA, the original USB spec, from a computer that wasn't designed to supplement such current.

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