iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro may differ in USB standard

There is no doubt that Apple will ditch the Lightning port in favor of USB-C on iPhones. It is even speculated that this change will be introduced next year on the occasion of the release of the next generation of these devices. Now, however, there have been rumors about the manufacturer's plans to use different USB-C connector standards depending on the smartphone model.

iPhone 15 Pro will have a faster port?

Ever since the "Pro" variant of the iPhone was introduced to Apple's offer, the company has to constantly look for reasons that will tempt the customer to choose this model over the basic version. This year, the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max got Dynamic Island instead of the outdated notch.

Next year, one of the differences between the standard iPhone and the Pro version may be data transfer speeds over the cable, due to the use of other versions of USB-C ports. This is confirmed by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on Twitter, citing a recent survey he conducted.

He writes that the iPhone 15 series will almost certainly ditch the Lightning connector in favor of USB-C, but only the Pro and Pro Max models will support high-speed file transfer. In the standard variants, in turn, type C ports with USB 2.0 standards are to be installed.

Another reason to choose a model with "Pro" in the name

The author additionally suggests in the next tweets that Apple may opt for a Type-C connector with at least USB 3.2 or Thunderbolt 3 standard in the most powerful models of the iPhone 15 series. If this actually happened, the increase in data transfer speed compared to its predecessors would be significant.

This does not mean, however, that the weaker variants will be weak in this respect. The USB-C connector with the USB 2.0 standard has the same transfer speed. as Lightning, i.e. 60 MB / s. So it shouldn't be considered as a deterioration of the basic iPhones, but rather as an improvement of the best models.

It is worth noting on this occasion that most smartphones on the market still use the USB 2.0 standard, so Apple, releasing smartphones with faster-wired transfers, would certainly encourage the competition to do the same, and this would be a good thing for all customers.