The cables that get shipped together with mobile phones and are part of the package allow you to charge your phone and also to transfer data to/from it. So, they aren't usually charge-only type of cables. The power-only cables don't have the necessary pins to transfer data, and that's the type of cable that Coinkite sells. Your phone's cable most probably does. Someone paranoid about their security would prefer a cable that doesn't have data transfer pins.
Yes, but my point is that you can just use a phone charger or a power bank to power the coldcard. There is no need to ever plug in the coldcard into your computer. Still it is nice that they offer this kind of cable for sale, as some users may have a use case for it.
Cool. If thats all I need to power it than I should be good. We will just trial and error with cables I guess. Just trying to justify why I need one. I hear crap talked about ledger and a WHOLE bunch crap talked about trezor. I know that cold card is very advanced bitcoin only device. I just dont know how its advanced or better. As far as what the $147 comes with so I just emailed coinkite to make sure.