Peeved that your iPhone 3G didn’t come with a dock? Annoyed that the dock is just too, plain? Well, if you want to add some color, creativity, and character, there probably isn’t anything better than a Steve Jobs Dock! The detail is amazing, the color is accurate, and the Steve Jobs Keynote pose is downright hilarious. Not to mention, it’s a bobblehead that works with both original iPhone and the iPhone 3G.
What would be even cooler is if you could rig Steve Jobs the Bobblehead to say “Boom” every time you insert your iPhone into the dock.
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The iPhone 3G does not come with a dock, instead you need to buy it separately for $29.99. The bummer of it is that the dock that came with the 1st gen iPhone is incompatible with the 3G dock. The other bummer for some folks could possibly be that the 3G dock also doesn’t work with the original iPhone either.
In any case — it’s a dock. It has the same outputs (USB and Audio) and the same basic shape as the original dock, although it is a bit nicer in spots. Namely: it doesn’t wrap as far around the sides of the iPhone, so it has an overall cleaner look. The phone does sit a bit too vertically for my tastes, but that’s a fairly subjective thing.
Still, for an extra 29 bucks there’s more we’d like to see here. An included USB cable and AC adapter for two. An IR port so it might be able to support an Apple Remote for three.
So all in all: boo-urns on Apple for no longer including it and boo-urns for charging $29 for it, $19 would be much more appropriate. Gallery after the break!
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figure 1:component video cable support
It looks like the Composite AV cable and Component AV cable both officially support the iPhone. This is definitely an exciting new development.
figure 2: composite video cable support
Maybe you’ve heard of ill-fated Microsoft iLoo. Well, someone took at Atech took that idea and ran with it, like they were afraid someone would take it away from them. Anyone want to make bets whether they made a profit on this one? Can we dream for a ‘works with iPhone’ sticker on this must-have accessory? [via camarochris]
UPDATED 06/25/2007 10:00a: there’s now proof that Apple has at least been thinking about it.
Someone just passed on a rumor to me — Belkin may have exclusivity on the Dock charging port on the iPhone. My secondhand source indicated that there’s a chip in the iPhone dock, and the iPhone will charge only if a corresponding chip is present on the charger.
The big question with this rumor is exactly how exclusive it is (oh yeah, and exactly how true it is) — I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that Apple’s charger would charge just fine too. Anyway, if this rumor is true (I should mention again that this is just a rumor), odds are decent that it’s to get people to actually license the dock connector, instead of, well you know, stealing it. One of those DMCA-to-the-rescue-by-lawsuit type things.
At any rate, if it is true, it’s crazy and unprecedented. What about other huge iPod accessory manufacturers, for example Griffin?
This is possibly a picture of the iPhone dock that will be available at AT&T or Apple stores. There may be a variant that allows you to charge the eventual Apple Bluetooth Headset as well, details are still sketchy at this point.
