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Things are about to get interesting for the iPhone’s charging port

If you’re waiting for Apple to finally unveil an iPhone with a USB-C port, we have bad news: it’s not happening this year. But there’s still some serious intrigue in prospect for the iPhone’s lone port in the months ahead.

Let’s start with), Apple is “working on [USB] 3.0 speeds for the iPhone 14 Pro connector”. The current Lightning port is rated for USB 2.0, which has an abysmally slow transfer rate of 480Mb/s. USB 3.0 offers a transfer rate of around 5Gb/s or about 10 times faster than the current Lightning port. LeaksApplePro reports that the feature will likely be exclusive to the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max.

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