Review Griffin 3-Feet USB to Lightning Cable

This Griffin USB to Lightning cable is priced much lower than the Apple Lightning cable so it's a compelling purchase. It is a charge/sync cable and so far is working well for me.

The good news is that this is a "certified" cable guaranteed to work with iPhone, iPad and iPod devices using the new Lightning connector. You should never purchase a lightning connector that isn't certified because Apple has the ability to render those non-certified cables inoperable by IOS updates. They've already done that and will continue to do so.

The bad news is that the Griffin cable has very poor strain relief where the cables enter into the USB & Lightning connectors. Over time, the poor strain relief could lead to failure of the cable. So far my cable is working fine... and with care, it will probably continue to work fine. But not all people treat cables as carefully as others.

I"ve used this successfully to charge my iPhone5s and it allows data transfer as well.

The price is attractive, the cable is certified but it has sketchy strain relief. Overall I'd say this cable is "OK," thus 3 stars.

Review from Mr Erb.Thanks for watching.