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USB-C connectors are so flimsy compared to USB-A, it feels like a real step backward. It barely takes any pressure on the cable to make my charging cable fall out, or to rotate it just enough that it loses connection.

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Not to be that guy, but the USB-C specification requires an extraction force of 8–20 N for a new connector, measured on the sixth unplugging cycle after five conditioning cycles. After 10,000 insertion/removal cycles, the permitted range is 6–20 N.

Equivalent hanging mass:

  8 N is 0.82 kg  
  20 N is 2.04 kg

So the problem you have is likely one of your manufacturer not producing equipment suitable to pass the USB-C spec.

As an aside, the specified extraction force for USB A is:

  10 N minimum when new  
  8 N minimum after durability cycling

So pretty much the same, in some cases even less.

I don't have problems with USB-C connectors per se. I think HDMI is worse in terms of durability.

Well it's a common manufacturer problem then, because USB-C connections are universally floppy and loose.

Are they? I can easily dangle my Phone of my USB-C cable. Maybe this is a regional problem. Within the EU I rarely ever had any mechanical problem with USB-C, where applied reasonably.

It's because your port or cable are filled with pocket lint. Get a sewing needle and fish it out and it will connect again.

No, it's because USB-C is physically smaller and shallower. You can visually compare them and see that

The cable will not just fall out. On my clean iphone I can hang the phone from the cable and lightly swing it around without it disconnecting. If it's just falling out it's because something is mechanically wrong or it's full of gunk.

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