Red Pinephone USB-C cable.. just for charging, right?

[DrewTechs]

Hi everyone, 

Just wanted to check in and see what others have found with the cable received with the PinePhone. Mine is red, I thought it was a standard USB-C cable but it turns out it only works for charging. I tried plugging in this cable to an android phone and linux PC, the lsusb command comes up with nothing/can't find device. Switched to another cable to find that it does work as a standard usb cable, data transfer/charge capable. 
Hopefully it is as designed, just for charging. 

Thanks

That's odd, from my experience it's perfectly capable of Data Transfer. Works when I use it for my 1 TB external SSD and it works when running JumpDrive on the microSD card to install an OS on the eMMC.