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After (finally) declaring that our old phones were beyond salvage, we upgraded to a brace of shiny new Moto G50s. These are lovely things, plenty of power, and soooo nice to be back with Moto again after an interminably agonising period with a far less capable brand and model, which shall remain nameless – mainly because my wife hates the company so much it’s become a taboo in our household…

This of course created a flurry of activity in other areas. First was the need for new SD cards (I’ve reviewed these elsewhere), and then investment in new cables. The Moto G50 takes the (for us) more modern USB C, and whilst you always get one supplied; well, firstly they’re never *quite* as good as one you would purchase yourself, and secondly you need a good few for different scenarios. This is not to disparage the supplied cable, but I tend to look upon these as a “standby spare”. Then I do a bit of research and purchase a robust custom job

And so we move to the Aioneus pack of four cables. I checked the user reviews first, and (aside from a couple that basically said “they were pulled into a neutron star upon opening the box” about which there’s nothing anyone can do but replace them outright), they looked rather good.

There are, as we’ve established, four in a box: 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 metre lengths. They are delightfully colour-coded, something for which I’ve always had a bit of a weakness. At the risk of showing my crumbly ancient age here, when I was a kid I loved it when cassette tape manufacturers specially coloured their C60- C90-C120 variants, and was over the moon if a company produced the best quality- best length combination in a colour I liked. Just a little nostalgic trivia, but as this compulsion has followed me into adult life, pleasant colour-coding is something that gets my attention. *Of course* it’s not just about aesthetics; it’s extremely useful to know which is which when you’re trying to thread cables around the back of furniture items, walls, domestic pets – this can save so much grimy frustration. With the Aioneus cables, it works out as: 0.5m – Green, 1.0m – Red, 1.5m – Orange, and lastly, 2.0m – Blue.

As you can see (in my wobbly, badly cropped image), the cables arrive packed in the box in their own individual “slip cases”, so you don’t have to unpack all of them at once just to get the length you’re needing – I have unsheathed the Red 1m cable. Oh, and the little smiley face is a “are you happy with your purchase?” slip.

The Amazon page shows a breakdown of how the cables are put together internally, with all the multi-thread wiring and interference shielding, and it looks to be an impressive build quality. However, we’ll have to take this on trust, as there’s no way I’m taking a knife to my lovely new wires – I don’t get paid for these poorly authored reviews I’ll have you know!

But in the short time I’ve owned one, and then another extra set, I’ve found them to be robust, flexible, speedy, and they give the feeling of possessing a decent lifespan. If there are any disasters, of course I’ll update the review. Not getting paid for these terribly written and overly verbose reviews works both ways – it means I can always be brutally honest and unbiased with my little Amazonian Club!

So let’s quickly sum up and get out of here. Aioneus has created a set of cables in the handiest of lengths, they give the feeling of flexibility, robustness, and long life, whilst remaining economical and not costing the earth. They’re colour-coded, available speedily via Amazon Prime (I ordered my 2nd set in the late evening and they arrived the next afternoon), and I’m obviously happy with them since I bought another pack shortly after the first! And thus I would heartily recommend them to anyone who requires some USB C Cables. There you go. The decision to proceed is yours!

EDIT June 27 2022:

I have had ONE of these cables fail. It was the area around the C plug. Cables get a hard time in that area, but these are supposed to be robust there for that particular reason!

However, it was just ONE out of many, many of these brand cables, and Amazon Customer Service leaped into action to remedy the situation, so I have no complaints – just a failed cable, replaced by Amazon. Excellent. I would still purchase this brand without any hesitation.