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Universal Serial Bus commonly known as USB has been devised to make connectivity easy. Micro USB is a device that help to setup communication or connection between hosts generally personal computers, and a device.
Micro USB was invented and developed by Ajay Bhatt. Micro USB helps to connect easily the external device to personal computers. The basic idea is to remove and replace large number of connectors which are present in the central processing unit of the computers. Micro USB helps to get rid of many parallel and serial ports, thereby addressing the existing issues of usability of the already prevalent user interfaces and also to simplify the existing configuration of the software of the devices that are connected to the Micro USB. It also helps us to increase the bandwidths of the external devices which are also connected to the Micro USB.
Micro USB helps to connect many computer devices like external hard disks, keyboards, mouse, printers, iPods, flash drives and digital cameras.
The first Micro USB was made by Intel and became available in the year 1995. Initially, Micro USB was devised for only personal computers. But now it is also being used for usage of other devices like video game consoles, PDAs and phones. Nowadays Micro USB is also used as simply a power chord for charging of various devices like phones or iPods. Micro USB acts as a power chord between an adaptor and a device, for example a phone, which can then be plugged into the plug in the wall for charging of the device.
Every year about two billion of Micro USBs are sold. Micro USB of specification 1.0 was there in the market in the year 1996. This had a data transfer rate of 12 megabytes per second. 1.1 Micro USB was released in the market in the year 1998.
