Yeah that's pretty much what I was thinking. Even if you only make 25k a year, which probably has you living in a crappy studio apartment, if you can even afford to live on your own at all, you have to stay like that until you're making 100k? That's silly.

The 5.0V 2.0A is likely the output. 100-240V is likley from the input. The input will always be the same (it's what comes out of your wall) it's the output of the charger that shows how much electricity it's sending to your device. All USB is 5 volts, so it's just the amps that we care about here. 2.0 A is 2 amps.…

It's true that my habits don't necessarily represent the needs of the masses, and I'm sure there are people who could benefit from the faster speeds. But I do think it's true that a lot of people will not really benefit from faster transfer speeds.

That article says that it charges faster because 2.0 is 0.5 amps and 3.0 is 0.9 amps, but I have multiple micro-USB 2.0 wall chargers that are more than 0.9 amps, so having micro-USB 3.0 is not necessary to charge at 0.9 amps.

Oh really? Interesting. Do you what the output on the plug head that came with the phone is? I know they come in a wide variety of speeds, and if your micro usb 2.0 chargers are all older, then the plug head could outputting less. I know I have a micro USB 2.0 charger that's 1150mA, and I think I've them as high as…

Oh absolutely. As much as I dislike Apple, (and all their proprietary cords and dongles is a big part of that) they definitely did much better with the physical design of Lightning. Not only is it better than the ugly and huge 3.0, it's better than micro-usb 2.0 as well. No stupid clips, it can go in either way, just…

Per the article posted by 3TS below, it sounds like it's the USB 3.0 ports on the computer that output more electricity (0.9 amps vs the 0.5 in 2.0). But a micro-USB 2.0 cord can carry far more electricity than that when plugged into the wall, so the micro USB 3.0 plug on the end makes no difference in the speed it's…

Ha, I laughed when I actually looked at that article you posted. The micro USB 3.0 plug isn't what makes it faster. It's the amount of power that that a PC outputs in a 3.0 port. It sounds to me like if you took the wall charger that say the GS5 comes with and used a micro USB 2.0 cord or a 3.0 cord, it would charge…

I thought the speed had more to do with the wall USB thing you were using. My phone (with normal micro-USB 2.0) charges faster if I use the 1100 mA charger it came with, and slower if I use the 500 mA charger I have left over from an old phone. Is there a maximum number of mA's that a micro-USB 2.0 cord can carry, and…

Am I the only one that hates micro-USB 3.0? The plug is stupid, and it's too big, it defeats the point of being micro. And personally I don't think it's necessary to have those speeds on a phone anyways, I never have reason to be moving huge files to and from my phone.

I'm not quite sure I understand how any of this is necessary. If I removed all my music files from my phone, I could easily fit everything on a 16gb phone, I honestly wouldn't know how to fill up a 16gb phone unless I had a bunch of music and/or videos on it, those are the real things that can take up space. My 32GB…

Yeah I think so. I'm not sure exactly what BAC could kill you, but I do know that 0.08% when you're legally too drunk to drive. 5% is over SIXTY times as drunk... so yeah I'm pretty sure that would be death. Maybe they meant 0.5%, even that would be quite a bit of alcohol.

I bought a similar product a few months ago, it's way more convenient then the stupid non-usb cord the system comes with. Cords like this only solve half the problem though. What really bothered me was that the port on the system isn't micro-USB. There's no reason for it. With tons of third-party chargers that work…

You are correct sir!

Mass and weight are not the same thing. On Earth, I weigh just shy of 140lbs. On the moon, I would weigh... I don't know, a lot less than that. But my mass is the same in both locations. The video never claims that they are the same thing, it just talks about how they are related. It's true that a lot of the time it…

I'm curious about the hardware that's being used for this. The obvious choice is NFC, in fact I stayed at a hotel recently (a really cheap, low quality one actually) that had NFC cards that you just held in front of the door handle to unlock it. It would be (I think) as simple as writing an Android app that could…

The bank I use is Ally Bank. The only reason I didn't mention it in my initial comment is I didn't want it to sound like I was advertising them or something lol.

I have heard similar things from most people I know who use Credit Unions, which again is why I don't understand why people would use a bank that has all those fees... credit unions are pretty common these days, and if they almost always have zero fees, then people should just use credit unions instead of banks.

Ally Bank. I haven't looked at CDs so I can't speak for how their CDs compare to others, and Ally does not offer credit cards, so Discover may be better in those areas.

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