Most of you reading this right now are the proud owners of a mobile device with a micro (or mini) USB connector. Be it a Nokia phone or Samsung or LG or any other brand, you own it and you know what a pain it can be to transfer large amounts of data from your PC to your phone. But what if you could transfer 1 full GB of data in less than 45 seconds? Would you be interested in hearing more? Well, I hope the answer is yes because, my friends... now you will!

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation has recently introduced an upgraded module for its West Bridge peripheral controllers that use the well known Media Transfer Protocol (or MTP) in order to realize the transfer of data. Cypress' new Turbo-MTP 2.0 module provides twice the speed of the previous Turbo-MTP 1.0 module, thus allowing its users the possibility to transfer large amounts of data in record time while being able to actually use the phone instead of having it dead due to being connected to the PC.

“Our Turbo-MTP 2.0 solution has turbo-charged sideloading for MTP handhelds, with internal tests reaching speeds close to 30 Megabytes per second,” said Alakesh Chetia, Vice President of the USB Business Unit at Cypress. “In addition, with Android quickly gaining adoption in top-tier multimedia handhelds, we made it a priority to add drivers to support this user-friendly OS with our West Bridge peripheral controllers. This along with our membership in the Symbian Foundation demonstrates Cypress’s commitment to turbo-charging sideloading with all the latest mobile operating systems.”

The Media Transfer Protocol was standardized as a fully fledged USB device class in May last year and has since been an official Picture Transfer Protocol extension.


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