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Brandon from Raleigh, North Carolina listening via the Android App asked: “Hey Dave, I have a question about USB 3.0. My new computer has the 3.0 ports. I understand that there isn’t much use for 3.0, so i was just wondering what the future is for USB 3.0? I’d like to see it on newer phones like the galaxy note 3. Thanks Dave.”
USB 3.0 is much faster, around 5 GB/s fast, that’s a lot better than USB 2.0 and, since files are not getting smaller, long term you’ll probably see USB 3.0 replacing USB 2.0 ports, especially since it’s a backwards compatible standard.
As for seeing it on phones, that may not come for a while because, quite frankly, it’s useless on 90% of cases right now. Unless you’re doing a full first sync and moving all your media onto a new phone, you won’t benefit a whole lot. Most of the time you add files to a phone incrementally, you just add 3 songs, remove 2, add a movie.. you rarely add tens of gigs in one go.
Phone storage is also pretty small, so USB 3.0 would be faster, but even filling an empty phone, USB 2.0 is not unacceptably slow.
As phone storage increases and as a batteries get bigger, we may see a switch though, it is the current standard after all, and USB 3.0 can handle more power than USB 2.0, some phones may want to take advantage of that if they can.
Apple, for example, had “optimized USB 2.0” ports for years before USB 3.0 made it onto Apple computers, those ports could provide more power to charge their newer phones faster and to charge iPads, which is something that regular USB 2.0 ports can’t really do (at least not fast enough).
For more information, tune in to Hour 2 of our podcast.
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Jack from Brooklyn, New York listening via the App asked: “I have a Toshiba laptop and I upgraded to windows 8 without having a touch screen. My problem is i’m trying to connect the email to the exchange service. I have all the settings, I know where I’m suppose to connect. But when i add another location it doesn’t work. It has up to 5 field facilities. I have already set this up to my windows 7 laptop, my tablets, phones and it won’t connect. I’ve gone to the IT at my job and they don’t know why its not working. Please help me out.”
if you already have the correct settings, which you seem to have, since you have the account working on a bunch of devices already, the problem can really be in one of two places: your new computer, or your server’s settings.
As much as Windows 8 is unpopular, and as much as some tasks such as turning off your computer may now require a complex mysterious procedure, we’re sure it can do email, and it shouldn’t need any special settings.
The problem is most likely the server, Exchange servers can be set up to restrict access to a set number, or type of devices. Our best guess is that your IT people are restricting you to a set number of devices, and that this computer is putting you over the limit. Ask them to check to make sure you’re not over your allotment and, if you are, ask them to remove whatever device you use less and replace it with your new laptop.
To be honest, your IT people need to fix this for you. You’re not asking for anything too strange, if they try they should be able to find the problem and fix it.
For more information, tune in to Hour 2 of our podcast.
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