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

[zacRupnow]

iProducts only?

[deltacake]

Double sided USB A cable is not new (article in Japanese, but check the pictures). 

http://weekly.ascii.jp/elem/000/000/083/83529/

 

Neither is a "no data, fast charging" cable. As others have mentioned, it involves shorting some wires inside the cable

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984838

 

Both of these links are from 2012, though there is probably earlier stuff I didn't find. Regarding the second point, if you have the right wall wart, such as the one that comes included with the nexus 7 (I own one), then there is no need for a special USB cable to achieve 2A on devices that support it. The post I linked talks about car charging, which is obviously one application for a special cable.

 

Again, as others have mentioned, it is not possible to (safely) make your device draw more than the USB standard specifies, this cable won't change that.

[MkZ]

I call BS.

[pspfreak]

Honestly I don't care about charging times with my phone. I use a bigass extended battery and plug the phone in before I go to bed. Problem solved.

[Levent]

iphone version of faux123's "force AC mode" on his kernels.

[Linus_torvalds]

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

it can charge with 1000 mah at max so this will not be problem. my nexus 4 came with 1200 mah charger. USB can charge with 500 mah and i wait about 2.3x longer to charge on USB then charger, but with this cable i will wait ~0,2-0.3 x longer my phone to charge 100% from USB

[Sauron]

Bullshit. Power delivery depends on the source too, a cable can't magically generate current that isn't being fed to it.

[shujin]

if it's working it's great ^^

[Rheinwasser]

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

your device identifies whether it should be charging with 500mA or more on the fact if the data connectors are connected or not

[Photonic]

And it will burn your house down

[mr.squishy]

This is stupid.

Electricity isn't magic people.

This is a product that is claiming to be innovative when it really isn't.

I'm disappointed in Kickstarter for not checking campaigns for being downright scams.

[euniqe]

yeah sorry you cant just "make" more electricity with.... a cable...

 

I'm sorry but I can't see how this would work at all. How can it suck more power out of a given source by simply disabling the digital USB interface? Its not like it can send power through the wires on the usb cable intended for data channels, USB doesnt work like that. I call BS.

[Strawpietro]

Sounds harmful to the battery

[Tonylu1595]

Sounds harmful to the battery

How would it be harmful if it charges that way regularly on a dedicated wall charger?

[Richard Burton]

the cable is pointless, if you wanna charge faster use a higher ampage adapter, your wall wort doesn't power the data cables, just the  power cables, you wouldn't charge it any faster with this cable. 

[bob345]

What they claim this cable does is physically not possible. You cannot simply use a special cable and magically get more amperage and power than you would get through a normal cable. You can only use as much power as your ac adapter can provide.

[That Norwegian Guy]

Who taught the cable to speak? If I saw a cable making outrageous claims, I'd probably kill it with fire no matter what it was trying to sell

[Guest]

I'd buy it just for the dual-sided USB cable

 

But why include a 'sonic' switch, why not just make it always charge fast? Unless doing that all the time is bad for your battery?

[Guest Kloaked]

This sound like that USB cable that has two coated wires between the terminated ports, and supposedly had double the transfer speed. Loool.

Anyone know what I'm talking about? I can't find it on Google.

[tohico]

Something like this has already been backed up, here's the original KickStarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1785889318/doubbletime-charging-cable-full-battery-in-1-2-the

It's available on Amazon already (link), so anyone can try it out. They talk about the DouBBleTime there, so I suppose it comes from the KickStarter. I couldn't find any proper reviews though. Only this one, but it's still only one source. So who knows whether it really works or just runs on rainbows and unicorn farts...

[Strawpietro]

How would it be harmful if it charges that way regularly on a dedicated wall charger?

I'm talking about charging something "2x faster"

[WhatTheQuack]

I think can believe these claims, here's why:

Some devices, specifically Apple iPhones and iPads (I assume other devices do this too) use the USB data lines to determine what the device is connected to via a series of resistors in the charging circuit at the other end. This is the bit that I don't fully understand, somehow the device uses these resistors to determine how much current it is allowed to draw from the charger, and this determines the charging speed.

So this cable, I guess, has a different resistor configuration which the device reads as it being allowed to draw more current than usual, so it charges faster.

 

I leaned this because as part of my AS Product Design course, I am making a table which will be able to charge USB devices, and apparently it isn't as easy as just hooking up a 5V supply to the USB ports...  

 

This video goes into more detail: 

[bcredeur97]

I think can believe these claims, here's why:

Some devices, specifically Apple iPhones and iPads (I assume other devices do this too) use the USB data lines to determine what the device is connected to via a series of resistors in the charging circuit at the other end. This is the bit that I don't fully understand, somehow the device uses these resistors to determine how much current it is allowed to draw from the charger, and this determines the charging speed.

So this cable, I guess, has a different resistor configuration which the device reads as it being allowed to draw more current than usual, so it charges faster.

 

I leaned this because as part of my AS Product Design course, I am making a table which will be able to charge USB devices, and apparently it isn't as easy as just hooking up a 5V supply to the USB ports...  

 

This video goes into more detail: 

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