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_lffv on June 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Was Mini USB Deprecated in Favor of Micro USB?

Mini's still on my TI-84+ and I can only speak anecdotally but I've never had a single cable die or have a socket go loose. I plugged and unplugged it probably ten times a day last year for six months so I could work on making my first calculator game.

I go through a micro-USB cable once a month. I buy them in bulk. I hate the standard with a passion. I don't like thin devices- if they could make thicker phones that have mini I'd buy them instead.

rightbyte on June 1, 2019 [–]

Micro sockets get full with dust too and are really hard to clean. My last two phones usb sockets died on me.

I got this feeling the mini is more robust. It got way better metal support for the plug.

Edit: Couldnt remember which is which.

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