Apple iPhone 3G Dock
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Apple iPhone 3G Dock
This don't dock
Written by MA from Fareham
Dec 18, 2009
Thats right just like the reveiws tell you, the phone dont fit! I can't believe that i didn't read the reviews before buying DONT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AS ME!!!
The iphone doesn't fit in properly, you really have to force it in and even then most of the time it still jumps out. A complete waste of money, unless you like adapting plastic mouldings with a sharp knife/Was this useful?
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Apple iPhone 3G Dock
A 16GB iphone doesn't fit!
Written by RD from SWINDON
Mar 25, 2009
The iphone keeps jumping out of the dock, and you have to press hard, too hard onto the iphone to get it into the dock, then it quite literally jumps back out again...Not impressed.
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Apple iPhone 3G Dock
No AV out
Written by CR from London
Feb 12, 2009
Bought this dock from the apple store on Regent Street, along with the 'Component AV Cable'. I even spoke to a member of staff to check that everything would work OK. When I got it all set up at home I found that the cable worked fine when connected straight to my iPhone 3G, but it would only charge via the USB connection when in the dock. The audio and video outputs do not work.
I'm astounded that apple can make a product that does not provide the expected. Surely the dock connector would simply pass through the data it is receiving from the ipod/iphone sitting in the dock.
Apparently not.
Poor show apple.56 of 82 people found this useful
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Apple iPhone 3G Dock
no cable!!!
Written by DT from Devizes
Dec 1, 2008
The dock is fine... but come on Apple - no cable!?!
It's another £10 to buy a cable!?!
This should come with a cable, end of story.150 of 170 people found this useful
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Apple iPhone 3G Dock
No AV out from this dock
Written by GB from CAMBRIDGE
Jul 31, 2008
Warning - I bought one of these and a new Apple Composite AV cable to dock and connect my iPhone to an in-car entertainment system for audio and video output. The cable on its own works great but the dock BLOCKS both the video and audio outputs from the 30-pin connector on the back so nothing works.
On the Apple website it does say that video output is not supported from this dock, but mentions nothing about blocking the audio from the 30-pin connector too! And neither the store staff nor the packaging told me any of this anyway.
I have no clue why Apple would not just pass through the 30-pin connection from the phone to the back of the dock, but they don't. Apparently the Universal Dock does allow AV through, but then it does block the microphone and speaker on the bottom of the iPhone so it's useless for speakerphone calls - and it will cost me another £10 for another power adapter I don't need (got one with the phone and one with the AV cable so far).
So that's £50 spent on two accessories which don't work together but are both 'compatible' with iPhone 3G, and fail to do the job a £2.99 cable from Maplin would do if Apple hadn't encyrption-protected the AV output on the iPhone.
Not great, and I speak as a long-term Apple fan.559 of 667 people found this useful
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