The Difference Between Male And Female USB Ports Here's the quick and clean breakdown: a male USB connector is the plug — the part that sticks out and gets inserted. A female USB port is the ...

USB A male to male, yeah, they are out there but rare. I have a few for my Wyze cam. They came in a 3 pack I think, 10, 6 and 3 foot. They run power to the camera and I used them as USB data cable ...

Micro-USB’s SuperSpeed-compliant version is roughly twice as wide and subdivided into two sections, to leave room for the additional five pins (two differential data pairs plus GND). The most recent ...

Micro-USB 3.0 (or Micro-B USB 3.0): This is the widest design and mostly used for USB 3.0 portable drives. Most of the time, the Type-A end of the cable is blue.

Micro-USB cables aren’t the charging cables we deserve: They charge more slowly than Lightning and USB-C, and they’re nearly impossible to plug in right-side up on the first try. But for many ...

Apple's Lightning and the new USB Type-C are both reversible, so plugging them in the wrong way is never an issue, but there are still tons and tons of devices out there with Micro USB ports (like ...

Every female USB port has a corresponding plastic piece housing its contacts, which slots into the male connector when you plug it in. The USB connection occurs when those two sets of contacts ...

Also, as opposed to the Micro-USB which has 5 pins in its connector, Apple created their connector with 8 pins, a far cry from the old 30-pin connector.

The Micro USB plug is very small: just as wide, half as tall, and twice as thick as an SD card. It allows an iPhone be connected to a Micro USB cable instead of the traditional 30-pin connector.

A female USB port is the socket — the part that stays in place and receives the plug. Think of them like a key (male) and a lock (female).