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Compatibility of new HP PRIME Cable - Harold A Climer - 10-12-2013
Is the new cable for the PRIME compatible with the HP50G?
I left my cables for all of my other HP calculators at work and only brought my PRIME and stuff home this weekend.
Re: Compatibility of new HP PRIME Cable - Mike Powell - 10-12-2013
I think you'll find the 50G uses a mini-B usb and the prime uses a micro-B usb, so no
Found via google image
http://commerce.hpcalc.org/images/50g-top-medium.jpg
and
http://tiplanet.org/forum/gallery/image.php?mode=medium&album_id=194&image_id=2801
Edited: 12 Oct 2013, 5:38 p.m.
Re: Compatibility of new HP PRIME Cable - Michael de Estrada - 10-12-2013
Confirmed. The two connectors are totally different and incompatible.
Re: Compatibility of new HP PRIME Cable - Marcus von Cube, Germany - 10-12-2013
The cables can easily be found in any phone shop. Just ask for mini or micro USB cables.
Re: Compatibility of new HP PRIME Cable - Dave Shaffer (Arizona) - 10-12-2013
You may have one of these courtesy of your digital camera - many of them come with such a cable for downloading images (at least the DSLRs do - the under-$100 point-and-shoots may not: there goes the profit!). I have both mini- and micro- via my Pentax and Canon cameras. Portable USB-powered external drives also use these cables.
Re: Compatibility of new HP PRIME Cable - Michael de Estrada - 10-13-2013
I don't think a camera micro cable will work, since the plug and socket design is different. I have two of those camera USB micro cables and they don't fit the socket in my HP Prime.
Re: Compatibility of new HP PRIME Cable - Mike Powell - 10-13-2013
Quote:
I think you'll find the 50G uses a mini-B usb and the prime uses a micro-B usb, so no
Slight Correction to myself - having looked at it again, the prime socket is actually a micro-AB type.
So the Prime must be Usb on-the-go compatible - i.e. capable of being a host or peripheral depending on what it's doing/connected to
Re: Compatibility of new HP PRIME Cable - Tim Wessman - 10-13-2013
It is actually not OTG, but rather a full USB host. In practice however, it behaves similarly to OTG since it acts as device or host over the same port.
TW
Re: Compatibility of new HP PRIME Cable - Eric Smith - 10-13-2013
The camera cables you're referring to are not Micro USB cables. For a while some cameras used non-standard connectors, which technically weren't USB connectors at all, even though they used them for USB signals. Such cables should not display a USB logo.
Any Micro USB cable that has the actual USB logo on it should work. If a cable has the USB logo but doesn't have standard USB connectors (full size, mini, or micro), the manufacturer is violating the trademark rights.