Sonny Dickson, the man who provided the sapphire glass screen rumored
to feature at the front of Apple’s upcoming iPhone 6, has a new
hardware revelation about the unannounced new phone: a reversible USB
cable.
Thanks to its symmetrical
design, the Lightning connector is already capable of being plugged into
an iPhone or an iPad in any orientation, and now Apple is apparently
addressing the other end of the cable as well. The thinned-out middle
section of the USB plug is said to have contacts on both sides, making
it possible to connect without having it “the right way” up.
Such reversible USB cables can already be found on sale from third-party accessory makers, plus there’s the imminent Type-C USB standard that
will shrink the size of the universal connector everyone uses while
also making it symmetrical. Still, it would be good to have Apple’s
official Lightning cable be that little bit more user-friendly in the
meantime, and the Cupertino company has already filed a patent application for a design that matches Dickson’s pictures.
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