This company claim its cable could charge your phone 2x faster ( SONICable)

[ahhming]

http://vimeo.com/116207382

 

SONICable, through a switch, you can select whether you want to charge and sync data or just charge the battery.

so by disabling the sync data , they claim that it will charge 2 x faster 

It also comes with a lifetime warranty and is Apple MFI-certified.

Also they have a full-size USB end can be plugged in both ways in a charger

SONICable is now currently crowdfunding the cable through Indiegogo.

How Does the SONICable work:

When the switch is OFF: Its like a normal USB cable, charge and sync.

When the switch is ON: All of the power is focused on charging, sync/data is disabled.

 

 

 

Do you believe their claim? Btw i like thier 2 way usb cable

 

 

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sonicable-the-world-s-most-advanced-charging-cable

[NeatSquidYT]

May want to change your wording, this could be seen as advertising

[minibois]

The GIFs are cool :3

[Nup]

I like the idea and claims, but would this be good for the battery?

[Rheinwasser]

wow, a charging only cable. i've seen those before.

with a switch? just carry two cables.

but this won't help at all if the usb port on your laptop only delivers 500mA, this cable can't chagne that.

 

total bs, sorry.

 

the reversible connector is cool tho.

[Extingquish]

Isn't data separate from power though? and surely just turning the data of wouldn't improve anything, since the all you're doing is breaking a circuit and you can't change how much power is output by a USB port

 

Someone correct me if I'm wrong

[Liam-McShane]

Pure bullshit. Would putting a charge on the data wires even work? I thought doing that would damage the device?

[Thorium19]

I demand someone unbiased tests these claims to see if they're trying to pull the wool over our eyes or not. Until proven to work, I will not believe any of these wild and fanciful claims, even if apple have certified it.

[Nup]

It'd be cool if Linus and the gang made a video on this product. 

[aom]

It doesn't re-purpose the data lines. Most smartphones if they detect the data lines will assume that it is from a computer and limits the power to 500mA to prevent overdrawing, even if it is a special charging port or charger. However, if the data connections are shorted (which i assume the switch is doing) , the phone assumes that it is a charger and then imposes the limit (of usually 2A).

 

In both cases, the data lines do not transfer power.

[DildorTheDecent]

Isn't data separate from power though? and surely just turning the data of wouldn't improve anything, since the all you're doing is breaking a circuit and you can't change how much power is output by a USB port

Someone correct me if I'm wrong

Data is indeed separate from power. Power is red and black, data is green and white in a micro use cable I think.

[Marvzl1357]

So, what if my current USB cable has no working data terminals? Wouldn't that achieve the same effect?

Yeah.... No. Seems to be pure marketing junk if you ask me. Like that light harmonic usb cable.

[AMICLG]

It actually might work. Iphones use the data lines to tell what it's plugged into by putting either 2.0v and 2.8v or 2.0v and 2.0v over data- and data+, the result is that the Iphone will pull 1A if it's 2.0v and 2.8v on data and only .5A if it's 2.0v and 2.0v on data. So what I think they're doing is making it 2.0v and 2.8v on data regardless then combining all the power to get that 1A out put from a .5A USB port Which doesn't count the amperage over the data lines. This is why your Iphone won't charge if your using a cheap external battery bank because it's not putting anything on data- and data+.

[BrianPena]

It'd be cool if Linus and the gang made a video on this product. 

Wouldn't be much of a video to be honest haha. Either it does what it says or it doesn't.

[Toddwjp]

but my phone already charges as fast as physics allow when plugged into the wall

[StingBull]

It doesn't matter if the cable sends power from all the nodes if all phones are designed to take power from only one node.

[Nup]

Wouldn't be much of a video to be honest haha. Either it does what it says or it doesn't.

True, but maybe being a bit of a public service announcement on theses kinds of products or charging wire in general, perhaps a bit of a "Myth-busting" type of thing. 

[Scheer]

This makes no sense, the only way adding more wires would increase charge times is if the wires were too small to begin with...

 

All the comparisons I've seen are only the switch on and off, not comparing it to a normal cable. It looks like they are artificially limiting the cable so if you turn the switch to Sync it charges at half the speed it is supposed to so they can claim double speed when not syncing. I'm going to laugh my ass off when someone tears one of these apart to find its just a resistor in the switch.

[ChromeYeti]

It's seems with USB 3.0, it is possible to obtain higher current outputs of 5 amps at 20 volts (source). I'm not really sure how they are going to transmit the power through the bus though, and I haven't bothered to look for a pin layout.

[Dabombinable]

Lol, they had to make a cable to do that? Android has that feature build into the OS, you just select the connection method you want.

[Psykomantis00]

That's not how that works. I call shenanigans.  

[JeffreyEagan]

This is the biggest marketing scam since different types of SATA cables. No. Don't buy into this garbage.

[JeffreyEagan]

It's seems with USB 3.0, it is possible to obtain higher current outputs of 5 amps at 20 volts (source). I'm not really sure how they are going to transmit the power through the bus though, and I haven't bothered to look for a pin layout.

That's the dumbest idea ever. do you have any idea how many dead devices will become of that?

[ChromeYeti]

That's the dumbest idea ever. do you have any idea how many dead devices will become of that?

USB has put some thought into. You need a cable that is able to handle this power. This cable also can only transfer at 5A through the Standard A/B connector. Chances are if you're buying a cable with those capabilities, you know what you're going to be dealing with.

 

Back on the actual topic though and looking at the indiegogo, they're 100% full of shit. They don't make any mention at what sort of USB interface they will be using, so I'm assuming it's going to be 2.0. USB 2.0 only can accept 500mA, there's no way in hell they're going to achieve the advertised 1000mA in their campaign video. Furthermore, turning off data transfer doesn't allow you to just start transferring power through the data lanes, it will just stop the transmission of any data information. The fact that so many people back this is mind boggling. They're paying for a glorified USB cable with a dual sided Type A plug and a switch to turn off data transmission, they're are not going to see any increase in charge times.

 

Now, if it's using a USB 3.0, things are a little different because it can handle up to 900mA. This still doesn't match up to their advertisement video though. 

[Tonylu1595]

Apparently there is a program for linux that does this also.