OnePlus Bringing USB Type-C to Its Next Flagship Phone, Brag-Tweets About Being First to Do It

Daniel Bean
·Assistant Editor
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The “one charging cable for everything” utopia is coming.

Smartphone maker OnePlus has announced that its next handset, the OnePlus 2, will pack a USB Type-C port, something never before seen on a U.S. phone.

The company tweeted out the news Monday, claiming that the sequel to its OnePlus One Android phone would be the “first flagship” to adopt the new charging standard. “We want to lead the way in power connectivity,” the post reads. 

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USB-C is both a reinvention and a merging of the full-size and micro USB plugs. Besides its potential for universal adoption across many device types, the new USB plug, similar to Apple’s Lightning cable, has no wrong way of being plugged in.

Aka, no more this:

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Slowly, but surely, gadget companies are joining the C team.

The new 12-inch MacBook offers a USB-C port (yes, just one), and the latest Chromebook Pixel laptop by Google features the new plug as well. Even the somewhat defunct Nokia put the Type-C port in a tablet it showed off earlier this spring.

A line of smartphones that utilize the USB-C standard was announced by LeTV in China this spring. But OnePlus’s offering still looks to be the first C-compatible phone released in the States.

And though full launch details on the OnePlus 2 are still scarce, we know that its predecessor, the OnePlus One, hit the market at $299, unlocked and without a carrier contract. A repeat of that would sure be a nice way to kick off the rollout of USB-C on smartphones, wouldn’t it?

Your move now, Samsung, HTC, Sony, etc.

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