I have a very nice looking but cheap? $10 charger from Amazon,although
details of the charger seem irreleveant to my question. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKRWN6ZH

It has 2 USB-C charging ports, 1 green and one orange USB-A port, and I
looked up how much better these A-ports are from blue, except that this
is a charger, not a data source. So does it make any difference that
they are faster? Are they just colored to make the buyer think he's
getting something special?

Two years later, Amazon doesn't sell mine anymore but refers one to a
very simillar one except it has 3 green usb-a ports.

Or shouldn't they be called jacks since they don't handle data?

And ftr one video on this said that makers can use any color they want
and gave an example of a box with 6 black ports some usb-2 and some -3,
but all black.

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micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

I have a very nice looking but cheap? $10 charger from Amazon,although details of the charger seem irreleveant to my question. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKRWN6ZH

It has 2 USB-C charging ports, 1 green and one orange USB-A port, and I looked up how much better these A-ports are from blue, except that this
is a charger, not a data source. So does it make any difference that
they are faster? Are they just colored to make the buyer think he's
getting something special?

Two years later, Amazon doesn't sell mine anymore but refers one to a
very simillar one except it has 3 green usb-a ports.

Or shouldn't they be called jacks since they don't handle data?

And ftr one video on this said that makers can use any color they want
and gave an example of a box with 6 black ports some usb-2 and some -3,
but all black.

The colour signifies 'something' is different about the port - typically
that they support some proprietary fast charging standard or other (Qualcomm QC2 or QC3 are common ones). Commonly it's to distinguish one port that supports QC (or some other standard) from another that doesn't.

I don't think there's a standardised colour code, but there are some conventions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Colors

In particular power supplies don't involve data transfer so 2.0, 3.0, 3.1,
3.2 etc aren't relevant.

Theo

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micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

I have a very nice looking but cheap? $10 charger from Amazon,although details of the charger seem irreleveant to my question. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKRWN6ZH

It has 2 USB-C charging ports, 1 green and one orange USB-A port, and I looked up how much better these A-ports are from blue, except that this
is a charger, not a data source. So does it make any difference that
they are faster? Are they just colored to make the buyer think he's
getting something special?

Two years later, Amazon doesn't sell mine anymore but refers one to a
very simillar one except it has 3 green usb-a ports.

Or shouldn't they be called jacks since they don't handle data?

And ftr one video on this said that makers can use any color they want
and gave an example of a box with 6 black ports some usb-2 and some -3,
but all black.

As Theo mentioned, a charging port has nothing to do with USB 2 or 3,
because there is no data transfer/speed.

As to the colours: AFAIK, there's no standardization for colouring of changing ports, only for data transfer ports.

But maybe the colours are explained of the 'label' (often engraved) on
the charger? For example I have a sigaret-lighter USB charger and that
has charging ports 'A' and 'B' and the label on the charger explains
that port A provides X Amps and port B provides Y Amps.

BUT, having said that, I have an AC charger which *does* have a green
port [1] and its label say that that port supplies 5V at 3A or 9V at 2A
or 12V at 1.5A, so that is a multi-voltage Power Delivery (PD) port.
Perhaps your charger is similar.

So maybe, there is a colour-standard for charging ports afterall.

Anyway, check the label for the specs. If it doesn't have a label,
throw it away!

[1] It also has 4 white ports which are 5V at 2.4A.

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In comp.mobile.android, on 29 Jan 2026 14:59:21 GMT, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

I have a very nice looking but cheap? $10 charger from Amazon,although
details of the charger seem irreleveant to my question.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKRWN6ZH

It has 2 USB-C charging ports, 1 green and one orange USB-A port, and I
looked up how much better these A-ports are from blue, except that this
is a charger, not a data source. So does it make any difference that
they are faster? Are they just colored to make the buyer think he's
getting something special?

Two years later, Amazon doesn't sell mine anymore but refers one to a
very simillar one except it has 3 green usb-a ports.

Or shouldn't they be called jacks since they don't handle data?

And ftr one video on this said that makers can use any color they want
and gave an example of a box with 6 black ports some usb-2 and some -3,
but all black.

As Theo mentioned, a charging port has nothing to do with USB 2 or 3,
because there is no data transfer/speed.

As to the colours: AFAIK, there's no standardization for colouring of
changing ports, only for data transfer ports.

But maybe the colours are explained of the 'label' (often engraved) on
the charger? For example I have a sigaret-lighter USB charger and that
has charging ports 'A' and 'B' and the label on the charger explains
that port A provides X Amps and port B provides Y Amps.

BUT, having said that, I have an AC charger which *does* have a green
port [1] and its label say that that port supplies 5V at 3A or 9V at 2A
or 12V at 1.5A, so that is a multi-voltage Power Delivery (PD) port.
Perhaps your charger is similar.

It says 5V at 3A or 9V at 2,22A >or 12V at 1.67A, for both of the
type=-C jacks that have a little white thing inside,
The two A-jacks are both 5v at 3.1A, even though they are different
colors, green and orange. But maybe that's why there all green in the
next model.

So maybe, there is a colour-standard for charging ports afterall.

Anyway, check the label for the specs. If it doesn't have a label,
throw it away!

[1] It also has 4 white ports which are 5V at 2.4A.

Thanks, and thanks to Theo.

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