The Mobile World Congress 2019 isn’t over yet the amount of cool stuff coming out of the annual tech show is already overwhelming. Talk of phones with holes in the display, in-display fingerprint scanning technology, 12GB RAM and up to 1TB storage, phones that can actually bend, the speedy 5G network, and all that. And still sticking with speedy stuff, now we have an even speedier USB standard that has just been announced at the event.
The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has revealed a new USB 3.2 standard for connecting gadgets to external peripherals, confirming that the controllers will be ready for use on a PC near you by the time 2019 comes to an end.
In fact, we are likely to start seeing more adoption on PCs beginning 2020, with the technology expected to trickle down to the smartphone industry towards the end of next year or probably in 2021 when 5G and foldable phones have matured.
The new USB 3.2 standard picks up from USB 3.0/3.1 and improves the file transfer speeds to 20Gbps, twice the speed managed by the outgoing standard found on most premium phones like the new Samsung Galaxy S10, LG G8 ThinQ, and so on.
If anything, USB 3.2 is here to make very high data transfer speeds the new norm on not just PCs, but also on our beloved Android phones.
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