If you own any kind of USB device, you have most likely heard about a dongle, but the term is actually very specific in what ...

I’ve had something of a tricky relationship with dongles. Specifically, the humble USB-A dongle—the little thing you plug into your desktop or laptop computer to make wireless peripherals like ...

Dongles have become a pervasive aspect of our existence. New iPhone users who refuse to abandon the headphone jack are common dongle users. Dongle streaming devices are regularly employed in our homes ...

At MWC 2026, Fibocom unveiled its new 5G SoC Dongle solution series, designed with an all-in-one SoC architecture that ...

Dongles are, as a general rule, terrible. Using them is bad, losing them is bad, from a design perspective they look bad — even the word “dongle” just sounds bad. But for the past few weeks, I’ve been ...

The iPhone 7 is coming. It is new. It is fresh. By most accounts it is a pretty good telephone. But if you buy a new iPhone 7 you will need something else. Maybe even several somethings. That's right, ...

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Using Bluetooth on a desktop computer is now such a seamless process; it’s something built-in and just works. Behind that ubiquity is a protocol layer called HCI, or Host Controller Interface, a set ...

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