The good thing is that SooPii’s product description plainly states it’s a basic charging cable, so the company isn’t trying to pull a fast one on you, but it doesn’t speak well of the QA process. And while the flat-out wrong specs encoded in the eMarker are unfortunate, the charging rate remains accurate.

Most USB-C cables only support charging at up to 3A (60W) or below and won’t allow some laptops to charge at full speed. When I measured it against my digital USB tester, it appeared accurate, though it rounds up to the nearest whole watt. That pretty much means it skimps on internal wiring and potentially may not hold up over time as the cable is flexed over and over again. That means you can just use a USB-C to USB-C cable to transmit video from your laptop to your monitor. That’s fine though, because most people are simply charging a laptop, tablet, or phone, and don’t need all of those features nor the bulk (data cables tend to be much thicker due to the extra wiring).USB Standards: The Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard dates to 1996 but has seen many new standards, revisions, and connector types in the years since.

Even cables that appear identical may perform differently when you plug them into your phone or laptop. Its length is best suited for an ultra-fast portable USB-C SSD, and can pinch hit for charging or running your monitor. Then there's Qualcomm’s Quick Charge (QC) standard, which was the most popular for phones for many years, although Quick Charge 4+ supports PD. The BoostCharge gives us more confidence than Apple with its pleasant braiding, beefy overmolding and Belkin’s boast that the cable has been tested to more than 30,000 bends.By spec, a USB-C cable should not exceed 83 mohms on the ground wires and 167 mohms on the voltage bus. One cable that is worth the long term investment to charge anything on the market when used with a USB-C PD Charger with the same power output regulations. Using the latest GaN charging technology, we’ve been able to make our chargers 50% smaller than traditional chargers and eliminated the need for a bulky cable to connect the charger to the power outlet. The cables come with a one-year limited warranty in the US (lifetime limited warranty in the UK and a two-year limited warranty in the EU). Unfortunately, once you get past the cool display, there are a few nagging issues: For one, the SooPii is rated at 100 watts (the older maximum power a C-to-C cable could support, which has now been supplanted by 240-watt cables.