Old iPhone docks will not fit the iPhone 3G

Posted by dsperling--2008
16 June 2008 @ 2pm

Great. I plan on upgrading my iPhone to iPhone 3G but have the Apple bluetooth which came with a replacement dock to charge/sync iPhone with bluetooth headset. I guess that won’t work anymore either.

Posted by Chas_IC
16 June 2008 @ 4pm

Also note that the “dual dock” that comes with the Apple Bluetooth Headset will not fit the iPhone 3G. At this time, there is no dual dock solution for the iPhone 3G, although Apple is listing the Bluetooth Headset as a compatible accessory on the iPhone 3G website.

Posted by rluckett
19 June 2008 @ 10pm

As an Apple shareholder, I find this vile, incessant Apple “monthly obsolescence” INFURIATING. I was on a business trip to NYC last month. Rather than pay $12.95 per film at the hotel, I brought 8 movies on my iPhone, my iPhone dock and a brand-new Apple “UNIVERSAL” A/V connection cord for my hotel TV.

I mean, SURELY my brand-new Apple “UNIVERSAL” A/V connection cord would plug into my iPhone dock just like my video iPod dock, right? SURELY the iPhone dock that Apple makes you pay extra for has a video out port for all the content that is such a big part of our $500 iPhone fanboy experience, right?

WRONG. No video out port on the iPhone dock. I could NOT believe it.

No problem, I thought. I’ll just plug my brand-new Apple “UNIVERSAL” A/V connection cord into the headphone jack of the iPhone. It WOULDN’T FIT the recessed port. GRRRRRRRRRRRR.

I marched across 5th Avenue to the Apple Store to vent at one of the “geniuses.” He was very helpful. He had just what I needed - a “newer” iPhone-compatible “COMPOSITE” A/V connection cord.

20 minutes later and $50 lighter, I watched “Atonement” on my hotel flat-screen… but was too angry to enjoy it.

I’ve only had my 1G 16GB iPhone TWO MONTHS. According to the Apple home page the new 3G that comes out in a couple of weeks is “TWICE AS FAST” as my molasses-like ATT EDGE network and is also “HALF THE PRICE.” Oh, and the compatible dock for the 3G iPhone will be extra.

Those oh-so-trendy shopping bags aren’t cheap, fanboy.

Posted by cvad
11 July 2008 @ 3pm

“As an Apple shareholder, I find this vile, incessant Apple “monthly obsolescence” INFURIATING.”

Really? As a shareholder?

So you have problems owning part of a company that managed to create a phone that compels scores of people to stand in line FOR HOURS to drop $200 - $500, and then managed to do it all over AGAIN a year later? Maybe you’re outraged as a consumer, which I was when I was wasting my morning in line today, but your inner stockholder should be smiling from ear to ear.

I understand your frustrations. However, such is the life of an early adopter…

Posted by mlblack61
13 July 2008 @ 7am

Well, I see both sides of the point here. But, I am afraid I relate to rluckett. I think all of Apple’s customers want Apple to endure and prosper, offering a fantastic option to consumers on a much broader scale. But, come on, jacking their loyal customer base around over a bunch of absurd connections and chargers is lunacy. They are ’serving a great steak’ and forcing us to eat it with a straw; it is not going to be a long-term play.

So, I figure cvad works on WallStreet; it is all about short-term cash flow and not long-term customer loyalty.

I just bought a 3G iPhone was soooooo excited to plug it into one of my MANY spare (earlier version) iPhone chargers, BUT IT DIDNT WORK…. AHHHHH! I am now collecting my 300.00 worth of misc accessories and ditching them.

Oh, and just for those of you have not gotten your 3G for HALF the PRICE. It isn’t, unless you are ELIGIBLE for a phone upgrade from ATT. I paid 399.00 for my iPhone 3G yesterday.