Micro USB to USB-C Adapter – 3 Pack, Old Cable to New Device

Description

A micro usb to usb c adapter is a small black barrel with a Micro USB socket at one end and a USB-C plug at the other. Push an old Micro USB cable into the socket and it becomes a USB-C cable. Three in a pack.

What problem this actually solves

You have a drawer of Micro USB cables. Every device you have bought in the last five years takes USB-C.

Buying five new cables costs more than this pack and throws away five working ones. A micro usb to usb c adapter leaves them in service: one on the bedside lead, one in the car, one in the bag.

That is why it comes in threes. A single adapter gets moved around and lost; three get left where they are needed and stop being thought about.

Which way round it goes

Micro USB socket in, USB-C plug out.

• The Micro USB socket takes the plug on the end of your existing cable
• The USB-C plug goes into the phone, tablet, earbuds case or speaker

⚠️ It does not work the other way. It will not let a USB-C cable charge an old Micro USB device — that is the opposite adapter, and the two look similar enough in photographs that it is worth checking the sockets before ordering. The giveaway on this one is that the exposed plug is the small oval USB-C shape.

Put plainly, this is a micro usb female to usb c male part: a socket for the old cable, a plug for the new device.

What it carries, and what it does not

Charging at the usual Micro USB rates and USB 2.0 data at 480Mbps, which is everything the cable behind it can deliver.

⛔ It cannot add speed or power that the cable does not have. A Micro USB cable is a USB 2.0 cable at 5V, so a micro usb to usb c adapter gives you a USB 2.0 connection at 5V. No USB Power Delivery, no fast charging above what Micro USB already did, no 10Gbps transfers. Any listing promising those through a Micro USB cable is describing something the cable cannot do.

That is not a flaw in the adapter — it is the point. The job is to keep working cables working, not to turn them into something they were never built to be.

⭐ Practical consequence worth knowing: a modern phone will charge from this, just slowly. For overnight charging on a bedside table that is irrelevant. For a twenty-minute top-up before leaving the house, use the real USB-C cable.

Where it goes

• Phones and tablets with USB-C
• Earbud and headphone cases — almost all USB-C now, and almost all charged occasionally
• Bluetooth speakers, e-readers and handheld consoles
• Keyboards, mice and controllers with USB-C charging
• Power banks with a USB-C input

The low-power devices are where a micro usb adaptor earns most, because charge speed never mattered on them and the cable you already own is entirely adequate. An earbud case drawing half an amp does not care what it is plugged into.

It is also the reason three is the right number rather than one. Those devices are scattered — a case by the sofa, a speaker in the kitchen, a controller by the television — and each of them wants a lead that stays put.

Build

A one-piece moulded body, small enough to leave fitted to a cable permanently without getting in the way. There is no electronics inside — a micro usb female to usb c male adapter is a pin remap in a shell, which is why it costs what it costs and why there is nothing in it to fail.

⚠️ Leave it fitted rather than swapping it about. The wear on these is almost entirely from repeated insertion, and a micro usb adaptor that lives on one cable will outlast three that get passed around.

Why purchase this adapter from Core Connect Aust?

This micro usb to usb c adapter is stocked in Melbourne and ready to go — order before 10am and your micro usb adaptor pack ships the same day via Australia Post with insurance, backed by our 90-day warranty and a team who can confirm which direction you need before you order.

Stocked here, not shipped from overseas. Order your micro usb to usb c adapter today and keep the cables you already have.

Compatibility

Fits any device with a USB-C charging port, including:

• Phones and tablets with USB-C
• Earbud and headphone charging cases
• Bluetooth speakers, e-readers and handheld consoles
• Keyboards, mice, controllers and trackpads with USB-C
• Power banks with a USB-C input
• Cameras, trackers and small gadgets that charge over USB-C

At the other end: a Micro USB socket, so any standard Micro USB cable you already own.

⚠️ Check the direction. This adapter has the Micro USB socket and the USB-C plug — an old cable in, a modern device out. To do the reverse, and charge a Micro USB device from a USB-C cable, you need the opposite adapter.

Speed and power are whatever the cable already provides — USB 2.0 at 480Mbps, 5V charging. No Power Delivery and no fast charging beyond what Micro USB does, because the cable behind it cannot carry either.

Device and brand names above are used only to describe what the adapter fits.