Category: apple lightning cable

Where Can I Buy An Apple-Certified Lightning Cable Charge & Sync USB Cable?

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Apple has used the USB-C styled lightning cable to sync and charge iPhones since 2012. For a decade, it’s been the must-have essential cable for charging iPhones, iPads, and iPods, however, it’s also an accessory that is available almost exclusively through Apple.

Some sites have what are called ‘Apple-certified’ cables. These are essentially Apple certified lightning cables charge & sync USB cables that are not made by Apple but which have been tested and verified to be Apple-compliant and that are sanctioned by Apple as being safe for their devices.

An Apple-certified lightning cable is nearly identical to what’s sold directly through Apple but they’re often more inexpensive. This is why you can buy a 3/pack of USB lightning cables via PrimeCables.ca for the same cost you may spend buying a single lightning cable via Apple.

Despite non-Apple devices moving to USB-C cables, Apple’s stuck with their proprietary USB lightning cable. There is no other type of cable that will work with an Apple device unless it has the same proprietary connector. Therefore, if you have an iPhone for example, you need a lightning cable to be able to sync data and charge the device.

What’s The Best Place To Buy Apple Lightning Cables Online?

PrimeCables.ca has some of the best deals on Apple-certified lightning cables in Canada. They’re a go-to source for anything cable-related and/or adapters, and Apple-certified cables form a large portion of that.

A 1M Apple-certified lightning cable charge & sync USB cable can be bought at a great deal, available in a single pack, a 2/pack, or a 3/pack, and in black or white. These are high-quality cables that will never quit on you and on top of that, the primary reason to buy them with PrimeCables.ca is that they offer a lifetime warranty on most of these cables. This means any trouble and you don’t necessarily need to rebuy the cable if you return to PrimeCables.ca for a replacement.

There are some sites that sell knock-offs of USB lightning cables and they aren’t very good. They are prone to over-charging and causing other issues as well as simply not working very well. PrimeCables.ca doesn’t sell those. Avoid cheap knock-offs at all costs. They aren’t Apple-certified. However, cables from PrimeCables.ca are. They are Apple-certified, premium-grade, and available Canada-wide, an important alternative to shopping directly through Apple.

For Apple-certified MFi-certified lightning cables you can buy online in Canada, if you want that important certification plus the lifetime warranty on your Apple sync and charge cables, visit PrimeCables.ca.

How Fast Is An Apple-Certified Lightning Cable & Dual-Port USB Smart Wall Charger?

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Apple-certified lightning cables are one of the electronics’ industry’s most popular consumer cables. The advanced technology inside the lightning cable makes it fast, efficient, and the chosen cable used by Apple.

When you buy an Apple certified lightning cable & dual-port USB smart wall charger, to be a lightning cable, it needs to be certified as such by Apple. An uncertified lightning cable can be damaging to a device and not work as well.

MFI-certified is another way to say Apple-certified. From sources like PrimeCables.ca, you can save a little money by buying an MFI-certified USB lightning cable that is not directly from Apple but still certified in the quality of the cable.

All lightning cables are known to be fast but how fast are they?

Sync And Data Transfer Rates On An Apple-Certified Lightning Cable

To get the maximum performance from an Apple lightning cable, you must plug it in with a wall charger. This is because when you use a laptop or similar device, you are compromised by the limitations of the laptop or computer. They can only put out so much power, far less than a lightning cable can handle and therefore reducing what you’re going to get on the other end.

In terms of how fast a lightning cable is, it relies on the USB end of the cable, be it USB 2.0 or USB 3.0.

  • USB 2.0 has a speed of 480Mbps/60Mbps.
  • USB 3.0 has a speed of 5Gbps/640Mbps.

This is what you get when you buy a 1 x Apple-certified lightning cable & 1 x dual-point USB smart wall charger. However, it is important to note that Apple does not put out all lightning cable specifications. Because of this reason, it’s difficult to say with certainly what the maximum speed any lightning cable can handle. The aforementioned numbers go strictly by what we know the USB connector can handle, as opposed to what the lightning connector can.

You will also find in terms of power, lightning cables carry 2.4A. Ultimately, if you have an Apple device, you cannot use another cable. You have to use a lightning cable. Just make sure it’s certified, firstly. Secondly, plugging it into the wall will maximize the speed. The combination of both is what will get you the fastest Apple-certified lightning cable possible.

Get your USB Apple-certified lightning cables, smart USB wall chargers, and other Apple USB accessories at PrimeCables.ca.

See a List of Home Theater Cables, Charging Cables, and Wires You May Want to Upgrade

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With the holidays just having passed, chances are you may have one or two new devices or electronics to plug in, install, or power. When it comes to home theater cables, smartphone cables, and electrical wire, it doesn’t hurt to upgrade every once in a while.

High tech, new, state-of-the-art cables make your daily life easier. You’ll see your smartphone charge faster on the right cable. With a home theater system, you can actually have enough cables to plug everything in. You also have the chance, when you shop with PrimeCables, to purchase adapters so that you’re never struggling without a way to power, sync, or charge.

HDMI cables

Everyone with a 720p TV or above is probably using an HDMI cable to connect something to it. Upgrading your HDMI cables for your home theater system gets you something premium-rated, customizable with different lengths and casings, and different design functions. Something as simple as Ethernet connectivity can mean the world of difference to your TV.

Ethernet cables

A sure way to get faster Internet is to cable it instead of using the standard WiFi connection. Connect and transmit high speed Internet with Ethernet cables, whether it’s for home theater speeds, gaming, computer needs, or otherwise. Ethernet cables remain vital to achieving the fastest possible speeds for the households and corporate environments who need it most.

USB cables

Thousands of devices use USB cables but some are built better than others. Sync and charge smartphone USB cables are a popular category but it’s important to have premium built USB connections that work with all devices. If your USB cable is slow charging, malfunctioning, or has not been updated in a few years, consider an upgrade to something faster and more contemporary.

Apple lightning cables

Apple lightning cables and Thunderbolt cables are used across the millions of Apple products. Though the company’s now focusing on wireless charging for future Apple devices, anyone with a slightly older iPhone or iPad still needs a high quality, premium-built USB connected lightning cable or Thunderbolt to get synced up, charged up, and connected.

Home theater audio cables

Audio is everything when it comes to a home theater system. Video quality is easily achieved. Audio takes a bit more work. Consider making a change or upgrading to speaker wire, 3.5mm cables, digital coaxial cables, RCAs, or Toslink digital optical audio cables. If you know what cables you’re looking for and what they do, you can do a lot with what’s on sale at PrimeCables.ca.

Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade. Gift yourself some new home theater accessories and cables for your household this year. Tap into the stock at PrimeCables today and support the best quality sound, picture, and charging premium cables can afford you.

See the Secrets of How Charging Cables work and more – buy them today!

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So your smartphone needs a charge. What do you do – you take a cable and you plug it in. Almost any device you want to charge, there’s a cable for that. But, how do they work – well, that’s what we hope to shine a light on here.

 

Every USB cable has at least two wires inside, no matter if it’s being used to power a device, charge, and/or for data transfer. All electric circuits depend on loops and in order for a loop to occur within a cable, two wires are needed. The key idea to remember is electric current which is the movement of an electric charge inside of a metal wire. A flow of charges is created by the electric field housed in the wire. If there’s no closed loop, the charge quickly will build on a wire’s surface, creating a zero electric field with no current. Alternatively, with a closed loop, mobile electrons reach back towards where they’re coming from and prevent charges from building up.

 

In most USB cables, there may be between four and five wires. The average Apple lightning USB cable has 5 wires. They typically are color-coded, such as in red, green, white, and black. The colors correspond to a code. ‘Red’ is a positive wire with 5 volts of DC power; ‘black’ is usually the ground wire in almost all electronic devices including USB cables; ‘white’ is the positive wire; and ‘green’ is the negative wire, used for data in tandem with white. A USB connector’s engineered so that the power wires are closer to the tip than the data pins, giving your device power before transferring data.

apple lightning cable from PrimeCables
apple lightning cable from PrimeCables

To complete an electrical circuit when you want to charge your phone, one end of the cable must be plugged into your phone and the other end into a charger. Back and forth, electrons then flow to the charger along the surface of a copper wire. For data transfer, data wires take on the opposite polarity on the same frequency meaning a mirror image is created. The white wire pushes data to its destination while the green wire is working in the opposite direction. This eliminates noise and allows a clear connection to be maintained.

 

As a USB Type-C cable is bent and beat up over time, eventually one of the wire strands break which is what causes a cable to eventually fail. If any one of the four wires snaps, the result is a malfunctioning cable which cannot complete its circuit.

 

For USB cables in Canada, shop with PrimeCables today. For our June 2019 birthday sale, our USB cables are on big discounts!