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2.5 stars
"Expensive, but necessary"
Pros: You want to have one of these
Cons: Big money for little piece of plastic
Summary: Good thing I own some stock in Apple. The margin on this thing is probably 8000% or worse.
The problem is, what else you gonna do? Dropping the thing into a dock at the end of the day to sync up and recharge is just so much easier than plugging in a little dongle and having an ugly loose wire sticking out of the side of your desk. This keeps your desk neat and organized, and there is really no substitute for what it does in a 3rd party peripheral.
It does have a line out jack if you want to connect speakers to it and it has holes in the bottom so you can still use it as a speaker phone. I doubt either of those features will get a lot of use, but whatever.
It doesn't even come with a new charging cable or charging plug, so you really are paying over $20 for a little piece of plastic that probably has about $0.39 of parts in it.
Ouch. At least buy me a drink first, etc.
But it really is a necessary peripheral, something Apple was right to include in the box with the last iPhone. Just consider the purchase price of the phone as $220, swallow hard and buy it. You just spent $200 on a phone, do you really want a dongle wire sticking out of your desk for the next 2 years?
Where to buy
Apple iPhone 3G Dock:
$29.00 - $34.99
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Best Buy
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$34.99 | See Site |
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Apple
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$29.00 | No |
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