Kenya's office administrators, university students, and field sales teams keep hitting the same wall. Their laptop has rectangular ports, but every new phone, earbud case, and portable drive now ships with a USB-C cable. The UGREEN US701 closes that gap without forcing anyone to replace a working laptop or car charger. Photographers moving 4K footage from a USB-C SSD to an older desktop still get the full transfer rate. Matatu owners and drivers who bought a USB-A car charger years ago can plug a USB-C cable straight into the dashboard socket.

Unlike other electronics retailers in Kenya, Mascom International stocks the UGREEN US701 as a verified two-pack rather than loose, unbranded converters sold by the piece. Users consistently report that cheap market adapters cap out near 480Mbps and warm up badly during long copies. UGREEN rates the US701 for 10,000 plug and unplug cycles, and the aluminium housing spreads heat instead of trapping it. At Mascom International, we're seeing steady demand from buyers who already own good cables and only need the connector changed. Walk into our Kimathi Street store to test one on your own laptop before paying.

It turns a standard rectangular USB-A port into a USB-C socket. Plug the male end into your laptop, charger or car socket, then plug any USB-C cable into the female end. Nothing is installed and no driver is needed. The UGREEN US701 handles both data and power through the same connection. That means an older HP or Dell laptop can read a USB-C flash drive, and an old wall charger can feed a USB-C phone cable without you buying anything new.

Ten gigabits per second works out to roughly 1.25 gigabytes per second at the theoretical ceiling. In practice, moving a 20GB folder of wedding photos off a USB-C SSD takes under a minute on a machine with a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port. Your real speed is set by the slowest link in the chain. An older laptop with USB 3.0 ports caps at 5Gbps, and a USB 2.0 port drops to 480Mbps no matter which adapter you use.

It carries up to 3A, which works out to 18W on most Android phones and 7.5W on iPhones. That is real fast charging for a USB-A source, but it is not the 45W or 65W a modern USB-C PD charger gives you. The adapter cannot create power your charger does not already have. Pair it with an 18W or stronger USB-A brick to see the full benefit. For overnight charging beside the bed, 18W is plenty.

Nearly anything with a USB-C cable. UGREEN lists iPhone 12 through iPhone 17, Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and S25, Galaxy A54 and A55, Google Pixel 9 Pro XL, iPad Pro, AirPods Pro cases and Apple Watch charging pucks. Tecno, Infinix, Redmi and Oppo handsets sold across Kenya use the same USB-C standard and behave the same way. On the other side, it fits any rectangular USB-A port on a laptop, desktop, power bank or wall charger.

Because one adapter is never where you need it. Most buyers keep one clipped to the office laptop charger and leave the second in the car or at home. At KSh 700 for two, each converter works out to KSh 350. Losing a single tiny part like this is common, and the spare removes that worry. Households running two or three USB-C phones off one shared USB-A charging brick also get more daily use from the pair.

Yes. UGREEN built the US701 partly for cars, where dashboard USB sockets are still overwhelmingly the older rectangular type. Plug the adapter into the dashboard socket, then run a USB-C cable to your iPhone 15 or newer for wired CarPlay. The same setup covers Android Auto on USB-C handsets. Data and charging both pass through, so your phone stays topped up during a Mombasa Road commute while navigation keeps running.

Yes, at KSh 350 per unit for a branded 10Gbps converter. Unbranded adapters on the street sell for KSh 150 to KSh 250 each, but most run at USB 2.0 speeds of 480Mbps and use plastic bodies that loosen within months. Users consistently report that a loose adapter drops the connection halfway through a file copy. The UGREEN US701 is rated for 10,000 insertions and is backed directly at our Nairobi CBD counter.

A fresh USB-A to USB-C cable costs KSh 800 to KSh 1,500 and only solves one connection. The UGREEN US701 upgrades the port itself, so every USB-C cable you already own becomes usable on older hardware. It also carries 10Gbps of data, which most cheap USB-A to USB-C cables do not — many are charge-only or limited to 480Mbps. For anyone who already owns several USB-C cables, the adapter route costs less overall.

The UGREEN US701 carries a 6-month Mascom International warranty covering hardware faults under normal use, matching our standard accessory cover. Physical damage, bent connector pins and liquid exposure fall outside that cover. Our Nairobi CBD service desk settles claims across the counter, with no courier return to a distant repair centre and no third-party middleman involved.

Three ways to order:

Both units come with the 6-month Mascom warranty stated above.

Mascom International has built its name on accurate product specifications, current Kenyan market pricing, and after-sales support handled face to face at our Kimathi Street counter.