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Charging and Data Cables

Swissten offers a wide range of charging and data cables in lengths from 0.2 m to 3 m with different connectors and finishes. You can choose from:

If you're looking for a quality data cable that can withstand rough handling, you've come to the right place with Swissten. Get original Apple cables and Swissten cables with great value for money.

Do you need to find out how to choose the right charging or data cable?

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You can buy a top quality car charger or mains charger, invest in a power bank that will support you in the most stressful situations or get a USB hub for your MacBook to expand the number of ports, but without a cable with the appropriate connector to connect all your devices, even the most advanced electronics will be useless. Do you need to quickly become familiar with these unobtrusive yet essential accessories? Let us help you.

What types of cables can you find?

Cables are mainly used for:

  • power transmission
  • transmission of data, sound or video
  • connecting two or more devices

Depending on their function, features, type of connectors or supported devices, they can be divided into several categories:

Data cables

In the electronics industry, data cables are among the most commonly used cables, as the name suggests, used to transfer data between two or more devices. Applications, movies, audio files, text files, programs, graphic files and so on are all data. The clear leader in the world of data cables has been USB-A cables for several years, followed by their own modifications in the form of USB-C and micro USB cables. These can be used as PC cables, connection cables between a computer and a peripheral device such as a phone or even TV cables.

How to quickly distinguish a USB-C connector from a micro USB?

Some users have troubles quickly distinguishing between these two types of connectors, yet they are recognizable at a glance. While the USB-C connector has a regular oval shape that allows it to be inserted into the device from both sides, the micro USB connector is flattened on one side and can only be inserted in one position. Its shape is not regular.

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                    USB-C connector                                                                                    Micro USB connector

Data cables with USB-A, USB-C and micro USB connectors can also be used as charging cables. This function is especially useful for charging wearable electronics, phones, tablets or music players. While the USB-C connector has also been adopted as a standard by Apple, the micro USB connector remains a specialty of Android phones. However, their manufacturers are also gradually installing more modern USB-C in their devices.

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  USB-A (left) connector and Lightning                                           Comparison of Lightning (left) and USB-C connector

Lightning cables

The Lightning connector was developed in Apple's labs as a successor to the 30-pin connector. Its purpose is to connect an external mobile device such as an iPhone to a MacBook or laptop. From a hardware point of view, it is a relatively small 8-pin connector that is capable of transferring both data and voltage. Thus, a cable equipped with a Lightning connector can serve as both a data and power connector. The cable you get with an Apple device usually has one end equipped with a Lightning connector and the other with a USB-A or USB-C connector, so that you can connect the device to your computer or charger. However, you may also come across an adapter between the Lightning connector and the 3.5mm jack, which is used to connect headphones to Apple's iPhone 7 and above.

Video a audio cables

Audio and video cables are ideal for connecting e.g. music player or computer with speakers, headphones or a microphone, you can also connect your camera to a smart TV to watch home videos or view your photos. The standard among video cables is the HDMI, DVI or DisplayPort connector.

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                                 HDMI connector                                                           DVI connector

3.5mm jack connectors have played an irreplaceable role in audio technology for several decades. The jack was first extensively used in the middle of the last century to connect headphones to a transistor receiver.

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Jack connector 3,5 mm

Even the cable must support fast charging

Do you want to charge your phone really fast, extremely fast, so that its battery goes from 0 to 50% in 30 minutes? Then you need 3 things:

  • a phone that supports fast charging
  • a fast-charging car or wall charger
  • a fast-charging cable

Fast charging is supported by most modern upper mid-range mobile phones. It's guaranteed to be available on Qualcomm Snapdragon 821, 820, 653, 652, 650, 626, 625, 620, 617, 435, 430 and 427 processors. You'll find out if this feature applies to your device upon purchase. There are several fast charging formats, mostly different modifications of the same technology with different unique labels depending on the manufacturer. As a result, you may encounter, for example, Quick charge or Power delivery protocols, etc.

Most commonly used fast charging protocols

Probably the most universal protocol for fast charging is Quick Charge, which is the Qualcomm standard that pioneered fast charging. Quick Charge allows charging at voltages higher than the standard 5 V, which can achieve charging power of up to 100 W. This feature attempts to compensate at least a little for the lack of technology that substantially increases the capacity of batteries used in mobile phones.

Quick Charge

One of the most common standards in fast charging is the 3rd generation Quick Charge technology launched in 2015. In addition to USB connectors, it newly supports USB-C connectors. Currently, there is also a 4th generation introduced at the end of 2016, known as 5 for 5 (for 5 minutes of charging, the battery capacity for 5 hours of work). You can also come across the 5th generation QC.

Quick Charge (QC) technology is supported by LG, Xiaomi, Sony, Razer, Asus, Redmi, Nubia and ZTE mobile phones. Look for a QC cable for them.

Super Fast Charging

Samsung mobile phones have fast charging hidden under the Fast Adaptive Charging or Super Fast Charging label, which is again handled by cables supporting QC 2.0, QC 3.0, QC 4.0, and QC 5.0 protocols.

For Huawei and Honor phones, fast charging that can transfer up to 5 A is referred to as Super Charge (SCP). A cable suitable for this technology can be found here.

Power Delivery

Power Delivery (PD) is the name of the fast charging technology used by Apple. It was developed by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), a non-profit organization, and unlike QC, which is most commonly implemented on USB connectors, you're more likely to find Power Delivery on USB-C connectors. If you want to use Power Delivery on your iPhone as well, you won't go wrong if you choose a cable with a USB-C or Lightning connector supporting this technology. The same goes for the charger, however, PD technology must be fully compatible with Quick Charge 4.0. This means that you can also fast charge a PD-supporting device with a QC 4.0-supporting adapter which was not the case with QC 3.0. You can enjoy fast charging with PD support if you own an iPhone 8 or higher, such as iPhone 8 Plus, 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro Max, or any of the 12 series including the mini series. However, a charging adapter with 20W or more is always required.

You can also come across some other fast charging standards, such as VOOC (Oppo and OnePlus phones), Super Charge turbo (Xiaomi) and others.

When it comes to suitable cables, if a particular model supports any fast charging technology, it will probably be applicable to other types of these platforms. This is because fast charging support is provided by conductors with sufficient diameter in the case of the cable, which will be able to carry higher current and voltage without getting hot or burning up as a result. In any case, make sure you have the right type of connector, which means USB-C or Lightning.

 

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