Edit: see comments for clarifications.

I am probably late on this one, but god damn this is one nasty trick by Philips.

Context; I recently decided to upgrade my shaver, from a Philips One Blade to Philips an all-in-one-trimmer-7000. As you can see on the pictures below, they changed the charger for the adapter by maybe 1–2 millimetres, just so the old charger could not be used by the old charger. Now, this normally isn’t a big deal, but with the new trimmer, the charger is USB-A only. Where’s the previous one had the plug on it instead. To me this is mildly infuriating as I know need to get an extra adapter just to charge my shaver in the bathroom. They had the exact same design for the chargers, yet changed it just slightly so they wouldn’t be able to be reused? Why… Philips… why?

Edit: many good points in the comments! I don’t know how to manually check the voltage, but seems like folks figured it out in the comments too. Should have just been USB-C!

  • uisEnglish
    21·
    8 months ago

    If one of them is 5V then I have no idea why they didn’t use Type B or Micro USB.

      • Pwnmode@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        8 months ago

        I literally won’t buy a product that uses micro USB. It’s the only.standard cable I have used where I’ve had both cables and the connector on the device fail.

        • Patches@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Just on a regularly occurring basis. They were always the failure point in my devices.

          Absolutely garbage durability.

          • uisEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            Absolutely garbage durability.

            That’s why I also mentioned Type B

        • uisEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Mini USB is much less popular

        • uisEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          B is for big. My favorite plugs are C13 and Type B. Don’t know why.

      • uisEnglish
        14·
        8 months ago

        Alternatives are worse

          • uisEnglish
            11·
            8 months ago

            Lots of pins, hard to solder, requires higher precision in PCB manufacturing. Type B has better mechanical properties.

            • hikaru755@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              8 months ago

              Pretty sure most people here are talking about the usage side of things. If we were to go by effort to implement the connector, let’s just go back to serial ports

              • uisEnglish
                1·
                8 months ago

                What device uses serial port for CHARGING?

                • hikaru755@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  8 months ago

                  Will if we’re only talking charging, USB-C should be as easy to implement as any of them, basic 5v is gonna work even without most of the pins connected

                  • uisEnglish
                    1·
                    8 months ago

                    Without most of the pins connected, but you still need to manufacture PCB with small tolerances because socket manufacturers don’t care you don’t need extra pins…