Apple is getting ready to promote new Beats-branded charging cables, in line with placeholder product listings on a handful of reseller web sites in Canada and Europe.
There are listings for 3 completely different 5-foot/1.5-meter cables, together with USB-C to USB-C, USB-C to Lightning, and USB-C to USB-A variants. The entire cables have a tangle-free, braided design for additional sturdiness and comfort. The cables will likely be obtainable in no less than three never-before-seen coloration choices, together with Bolt Black, Surge Stone, and Speedy Crimson, and it seems that they are going to be offered in one-pack and two-pack varieties.
The USB-C to USB-C cable helps 60W quick charging, and it has USB 2.0 information switch speeds of as much as 480 Mbps, in line with one of many listings.
Right here is the complete product description for that cable:
Elevate your charging recreation and ditch the tangles, kinks and frays with our new bolstered braided cables. This bundle contains two 1.5-meter Beats USB-C to USB-C woven charging cables.
Key Promoting Factors
• Every cable is made with a tangle-free woven design for additional sturdiness and comfort.
• Beats cables bear 1000’s of hours of testing all through the design and manufacturing course of and are bolstered to assist forestall fraying.
• Appropriate with all USB-C Apple and Android gadgets, the braided cables are constructed for charging, syncing, audio, CarPlay, and transferring information.
• The cable permits you to cost USB-C suitable Beats headphones or audio system whilst you hearken to audio or stream lossless audio.
• They assist quick charging of as much as 60 watts and may switch information at USB 2.0 charges. For quick, environment friendly charging, pair a USB-C cable with a USB-C energy adapter and conveniently cost your suitable iPhone or different gadgets from a wall outlet.
• USB-C energy adapter not included.
The cables had been added to 1 reseller’s web site on Monday, March 24, whereas one other lists an estimated in-stock date of Tuesday, April 8, however it’s unclear if that date is correct. Apple and Beats have but to make any official bulletins.
The USB-C to USB-C cable is listed at $24.95 in Canadian {dollars}, so it could possibly be priced under $20 in U.S. {dollars} on Apple’s on-line retailer.
The cables are designed to be used with Apple gadgets, Android gadgets, and Beats headphones and audio system, in line with the listings. Nonetheless, they don’t have any distinctive options in comparison with different equal cables, other than having Beats branding. For Apple, the cables would assist to spice up the corporate’s equipment income.
Apple acquired Beats in 2014, partly to realize entry to the Beats Music app’s underlying applied sciences, which helped it to launch the Apple Music streaming service the next 12 months. Apple additionally gained possession of the favored line of Beats headphones and audio system, and it launched the first-ever Beats-branded iPhone instances final 12 months. Now, it seems like Beats-branded cables would be the newest chapter of the story.
