Overwhelmed with the number of cables, adapters, and chargers that you must haul around to keep all your cell phones, tablets, and other devices happy and healthy? If you have Apple devices, you know you must carry along cables and chargers that only work with Apple products. The latest Apple mobile devices use the Lightning adapter, something proprietary to Apple. So if you want an alternate way to charge and sync your Apple products, or if you want to eliminate having to carry around cables and chargers just for your Apple devices, then you might be interested in the AmazonBasics Lightning Compatible to Micro USB Adapter.
As you can see, it’s a really tiny adapter, with a male Lightning interface on one end, and a female micro USB interface on the other end.
Using it is very simple: plug in your micro USB cable that you use to connect to all your non-Apple devices, and you can now use that same cable also with your Apple products (at least the ones with the Lightning port).
I use it with my iPad Air so I don’t have to also carry around my Lightning USB cable along with the micro USB cable I need for my other non-Apple devices. Using this adapter and micro USB cable I can sync and charge my iPad Air with no problem. I’m also relieved having an alternate way to interface to my iPad Air—I’ve got lots of micro USB cables, but only one Lightning USB cable.
For what it is, this adapter seems a little pricey, but it does what it’s supposed to do—convert a micro USB cable into a Lightning USB cable. Because it helps eliminate cable clutter and makes syncing/charging my Apple devices easier, the adapter now goes everywhere I go.
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