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Apple's Smaller iOS Device Dock Connector Said to Include 19 Pins
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It'd be cool if it could charge from micro-USB but do all the cool AV stuff from dock accessories.
That way you could just grab a generic micro-USB charger if you were in a bind and needed to charge your phone.
Would also mean one less cable in the bag.
That way you could just grab a generic micro-USB charger if you were in a bind and needed to charge your phone.
Would also mean one less cable in the bag.
Apple could do something similar to this.
You could use a standard MicroUSB cable for charging and data... plus have the additional pins for other stuff when you use the Apple cable.
That would solve the EU problem... and still allows for further capability. The only question is if Apple could cram all 19 pins into a plug this size.
But MicroUSB should be incorporated somehow into the new design... if for nothing else besides charging and data.
If Apple changes the dock connector at all... we're gonna have to deal with the issues of older 30-pin accessories. So if they are gonna make any change... they better make it worth it. MicroUSB would be a nice addition.
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How is this not enough of a design change? Just changing the screen size (something they've never done) seems like a pretty big change to me.
I haven't invested much in accessories for the existing connector so I don't mind a change. Particularly if USB3.0 and/or Thunderbolt support is added.
I don't. It works great for a heavier laptop, but Apple wants to make their phones and iPods smaller and lighter. Assuming everyone wants it for that quick disconnect feature, where if you trip the cord it just pops out harmlessly, how do you give something like an iPhone a Mag-Safe connection without making it so weak to account for the phone's lack of weight?
I don't know, it's late and Mag-Safe isn't making any sense at all to me.
It makes more sense in an Apple way to stuff everything into one single cable. You can do more with the 30-pin cable than with USB, so it's justified. Besides, Apple won't support a common port on their iProducts when they could just design their own proprietary port and make money off third-party docks through licensing
They will be still compatible if Apple moves to the smaller connector, Apple will bring out some sort of converter that converts the big (30 pin connector) to the smaller connector. I can't see us getting one included with the new iPhone though
probably have to buy them.
MicroUSB is too much standard for Apple. They like the proprietary interfaces so they can sell expensive adapters or peripherals which an equivalent usb one would do the same job for much less money.
Glad my primary accessory, an external battery, needs the USB cable for charging...
The MagSafe connector DOES have pins five of them. The magnets just line them up for you, but they're there.I welcome a brand new connector.
But please get rid of the whole concept of "pins". They suck!!!
How about a magsafe connector that simply connects just like the magsafe on the laptops but also does data as well as power? I never want to have to squeeze another set of pins on an iOS device ever again! It's lame. Let the magnets line up and connect the device. It's so slick for laptops, I don't see why you couldn't use it for the iPhone/iPad.
bigger
Im sure it will be as desireable as ever, but I promised myself that if the iPhone got any bigger my addiction wouldnt lead me to a man bag.
So I guess if true Ill be moving on, to smaller and lighter again, and all I know right now - is that it wont be a Samsung.
Im sure it will be as desireable as ever, but I promised myself that if the iPhone got any bigger my addiction wouldnt lead me to a man bag.
So I guess if true Ill be moving on, to smaller and lighter again, and all I know right now - is that it wont be a Samsung.
I want the iPhone 5 to both look good and be something that I would not feel the need to put in a case. Without cases, there would be less leak!
Seriously, I never put my blackberries in cases. I wouldn't put the Nokia Lumina in a case. I've never put an iPod Touch in a case. But Apple made the back glass and made the glass exposed at the edge in the iPhone 4. So I ended up with a case. My current case is a nice case. But it still bulks up the phone a bit.
I've seen a lot of busted up iPhones in the wild, so case is the way I go. But I hope this new version doesn't need one.
Seriously, I never put my blackberries in cases. I wouldn't put the Nokia Lumina in a case. I've never put an iPod Touch in a case. But Apple made the back glass and made the glass exposed at the edge in the iPhone 4. So I ended up with a case. My current case is a nice case. But it still bulks up the phone a bit.
I've seen a lot of busted up iPhones in the wild, so case is the way I go. But I hope this new version doesn't need one.
Faaaarrrrr out these concepts are all so ugly!
I truly hope Apple pull something out of the hat that doesn't try to rehash the iPhone 4 design for a 3rd year simply by stretching and squashing...
I truly hope Apple pull something out of the hat that doesn't try to rehash the iPhone 4 design for a 3rd year simply by stretching and squashing...
Why wouldn't the move of the headphone jack make sense? I mean the way most people put their phone in their pocket is upside down, it's just natural that way. And with the phone upside down in your pocket the headphones coming off the bottom would make perfect sense. Maybe I'm missing something but I love the idea of the headphone jack being on the bottom.
Because if you put your phone in your pocket upside down (which you should if you want your phone to be the right way up when you take it out), the headphone jack should be at the bottom.
Makes perfect sense.
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Beat me to it!
I don't think many people go out and buy a phone wanting it to drop. But - accidents happen - and when they do, you'd rather reduce your chances of having a shattered glass back by having a non-glass back plate
Ah, that must be it, then. Everyone but you WANTS to drop his phone. That must be why it happens. Not because it is made thin, with flat sides and back that fit so unergonomically in the hand, but because everyone else wants to drop it.
Thank you. I always wondered why the backs of iPhones shattered so often.
Since Apple introduced the Magsafe 2 connector for their New macAirs and Pros
This supports the Posssibility of a change and $9.99 tag for the converter
Still feel apple has got something up thier sleeves about the design we still dont know
This supports the Posssibility of a change and $9.99 tag for the converter
Still feel apple has got something up thier sleeves about the design we still dont know
Don't know why you got downvoted... it is true that the lens scratches SO EASILY on my iPhone 4 my camera takes blurry pictures now.
As nice as the iPhone looks without a case, get some kind of a case protection. Being the owner of a case-less iPhone 4 for 2 years I promise you accidents WILL happen.