USB Forum creates USB 2.0 consumer confusion

A FILING AT Pro Networks today, which bears an uncanny resemblance to a previous article in the Bangkok Post, claimed that the USB Forum is pulling the wool over all of our eyes by re- labelling version 1.1 of the standard, version 2.0.

But that puts the cat among the pigeons, because there already is a version 2.0, so the USB Forum is calling one version "Full Speed" and the other "Hi Speed".

The difference between "Full Speed" and "Hi Speed" is that one is faster than the other, but if you buy a product labelled USB 2, you might find you've got the one with the lower speed rather than the higher speed.

Here's what the USB people have to say about this whole matter.

And here is what appears to be the original article from the Bangkok Post.

The trouble is that apparently some companies have sold version 1.1 USB devices, now renamed USB 2, as USB 2, when they're really 1.1

As the person who filed this note says, mislabelled goods are a serious matter, particularly in the European Union. Perhaps the USB Forum would care to clarify. µ