• Re: Factoid, copy time, from phone versus from laptop to ext. drive

    From John Dallman@21:1/5 to Burns on Tue Dec 26 21:18:00 2023
    In article <kv06keFrhb7U1@mid.individual.net>, usenet@andyburns.uk (Andy
    Burns) wrote:

    micky wrote:
    Do they rate phone ports as USB2 and USB3?
    Almost invariably USB2, that'll be your bottleneck, wifi could be
    faster but needs installing apps to do it, worth it for once eery 2
    years?

    Some newer ones are USB-3, but the nomenclature is annoyingly complicated. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0>

    For fast transfers, you want USB-C 3.2, which should get you at least
    5Gbit/sec raw speed. Here are a couple of examples:

    <https://www.gsmarena.com/oneplus_12-12725.php> <https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_14-12626.php>

    USB 4 doesn't seem to have appeared in 'phones yet.

    John

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to John Dallman on Wed Dec 27 09:17:20 2023
    John Dallman wrote:

    USB 4 doesn't seem to have appeared in 'phones yet.

    Not even the iPhone 15.

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