iPhones and 3rd-party connections.
I was surprised to hear that various iPhones & Touches don't work with 3rd-party implementations of the dock connector interface.
I bought a Griffin car battery charger (cigarette lighter adapter) for my daughter's day-1 iPhone. It worked fine with any 2G iPhone. I just checked a 3G for the first time and it doesn't work... boo, hiss!
I have several Apple devices that are quite old:
--iPod-HiFi
--iPod Video to Component TV/Universal dock (for the iPod Video)
iPhones (2G, 3G, 3GS) all display an error message when connected, saying "This Accessory not made to work with iPhone...."
But you can just dismiss the message and the iPhone works as desired-- iPhone Boom Box, and iPhone Videos on HDTV.
So, I suspect that Apple tried to implement the devices in such a way as to not arbitrarily limit future compatibility.
Apparently, 3rd-parties did not do (or know how to do) this.
...curiouser and curiouser... I just checked and the Griffin charger (above) and it does work when the iPhone 3G & 3GS are connected with a Mophie JuicePack Air (3G/3GS Case/Battery with buit-in adapter).
I assume this means that information is available to 3rd-parties (Mophie, in this case) for them to a range of legacy, current and future devices using the dock connector.
Dick
I was surprised to hear that various iPhones & Touches don't work with 3rd-party implementations of the dock connector interface.
I bought a Griffin car battery charger (cigarette lighter adapter) for my daughter's day-1 iPhone. It worked fine with any 2G iPhone. I just checked a 3G for the first time and it doesn't work... boo, hiss!
I have several Apple devices that are quite old:
--iPod-HiFi
--iPod Video to Component TV/Universal dock (for the iPod Video)
iPhones (2G, 3G, 3GS) all display an error message when connected, saying "This Accessory not made to work with iPhone...."
But you can just dismiss the message and the iPhone works as desired-- iPhone Boom Box, and iPhone Videos on HDTV.
So, I suspect that Apple tried to implement the devices in such a way as to not arbitrarily limit future compatibility.
Apparently, 3rd-parties did not do (or know how to do) this.
...curiouser and curiouser... I just checked and the Griffin charger (above) and it does work when the iPhone 3G & 3GS are connected with a Mophie JuicePack Air (3G/3GS Case/Battery with buit-in adapter).
I assume this means that information is available to 3rd-parties (Mophie, in this case) for them to a range of legacy, current and future devices using the dock connector.
Dick