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Mobile connections

Mobile connections

♪ Everybody shut, everybody footloose. ♪ - Oh, hey, everybody. Listen, in this episode, I want to talk about how the many ways we connect all of our wireless devices together. I'm going to be concentrated on smartphones here, but this would also work perfectly well with just about any tablet as well. So keep that in mind. So we really have two big choices when it comes to connecting our mobile devices to other stuff, and that's going to be wired, and that's going to be wireless. So let's talk about the easy one first, and that's wired. At the base of pretty much every smart device is either going to be, these days, it's either going to be a micro USB, it's going to be a proprietary Apple Lightning connection, or it's going to be USB-C. So between those three connectors, you can pretty much connect these guys into almost anything. Now, why you connect can often make a big difference. Number one, we connect for power.…

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