alt Hacker NewsTo be clear, they're not literally "charging only", AIUI they're spec-compliant cables with USB2.0 480Mbps and power delivery, and they're allowed to not have the four SuperSpeed wire pairs. They're still useful for low bandwidth devices (like charging my keyboard/mouse).
Incidentally — I spent an inordinate amount of time searching for USB3.2 cables on Amazon, and the vast majority of cables were actually just USB2.0 cables with PD support, and not actual Full-Featured cables.
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lxgr • today at 3:46 PM
Ah, I love these as they're generally much thinner/lighter/more flexible than USB-C 3 cables but still support at least 60W power delivery! Advertising them as USB 3 is a shame, though.
Amazon's search is awful and I do not recall a time when it was better. It's probably this way by design, so that it always tends to present a never-ending stream of products to buy.
But over here in the real world where I need a specific sort of USB 3.2 widget: Either the USB 3.2 widget exists, or it does not exist. Presenting pages and pages of not-results that were already explicitly defined as irrelevant do not help a person to spend money. :)
(eBay's advanced search mode seems to still get it close-enough to right when rote specificity is important. I use it all the time to find very particular things.)