The MHL antennas have become a standard to connect your smartphone to your TV and publishing video at 1080p and uncompressed sound , born of a partnership between Samsung, Nokia, Sony and © © Toshiba among different companies.
However, although it is an industry standard, not any cables applies to any terminal . The reason is that there are phones that use a connection pins and five others using 11. In this post will explain what you need for your phone cable.
Samsung Galaxy S4 and © © © Galaxy S3 Samsung, MHL eleven pins
In this case, the antennas are interchangeable, both will work in the other terminal, with certain differences: the S4 uses a MHL 2.0 and not S3 .
The MHL 2.0 includes electric charge, this means that if you use the adapter with the © Galaxy S4 need not be connected because the smartphone itself will provide energy, while this will not happen with the adapter S3 , so you will need the USB charger. No matter what you use HML, this depends on the terminal .
In addition, the HML S4 operates at 60 MHz and S3 to 24, so you'll have better quality adapter S4 use the smartphone you use. Everything is also used prior to the © Samsung © Galaxy Note.
The previous prototypes are compatible with MHL five pins , so your adapters are not compatible. There are adapters, even if all they do is that they are compatible with the new models, without accepting the new features of these.
MHL five pins
This is the original standard of this type of cable and most phones are compatible with this model. The © Samsung Galaxy S2 © was the first smartphone that made use of this technology and its cable is easily reachable . Other mobile compatible with this cable line are Sony Xperia Z © , and the HTC One, as well as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus © . Leaving aside the case of the © Galaxy mentioned above, the vast majority of models including MHL technology are compatible with this type of cable.
MHL 3.0
In August 2013 the consortium warned the third generation of MHL technology.Among the new features offered by this new version it includes:
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4K video support , which will allow videos with a resolution of 3820 x 2160 at 30 frames per second.
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Channel simultaneous high - speed data , which will connect both instruments to 6Gbps
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Channel 10W load, which will load the smartphone through mainstream television, so you will not run out of battery while a long session.
- Sound compatible with Dolby TrueHD and DTS - HD 7.1.
- Backward compatibility with MHL MHL two to one.
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Support for peripherals such as touch screens, mouse or keyboard.
- Support for multiscreen
The © Sony © Xperia Z2 and Z3 and Galaxy S5 © © Samsung already support this standard. The previous generations antennas are compatible, but obviously do not have these new features.
Transform your device
The MHL is a great choice at a very low value to connect a laptop or © tablet to a TV or monitor with excellent picture quality, allowing you to use these devices as if they were a computer to use with mouse and keyboard, media player or game console aswell as without suffering delay between the picture of the smartphone and the screen, a cost much lower than that which would buy any of these gadgets .