Actually what would have made it ingenious would have been to make it a mag safe type connector. As well as the lightning.
I would wager the cables would hold up quite a bit better simply because you can insert the cable either way. Unlike (micro) usb there's no wrong way to put in. I've seen devices trashed because people try to put the connector in the wrong way and finally figure out they need to flip the cable. Do that a couple times and you've now bent pins or loosened up the connector a bit.This is really cool, but it also seems like it could easily malfunction/get confused if there is some wear and tear involved. I guess we'll have to wait and see about the long time reliability of these cables.
I don't really understand why so many people focus on "faster transfer rates" of the cables used by iOS devices when wireless syncing has been available for a year or so.
Is there any good reason for syncing your iPhone using a wired connection?
*yawn*. I suppose it takes a bit more to get me excited. It's not like they found a new way to split the atom. Probably took an engineer a half day with his white board to map this out and make it so. I don't think this is very ground breaking and believe just like with anything it sounds a lot "cooler" and over-complicated when someone who likes to hear themselves talk explains it. Now make each connection with an encoded magnetic field and not a physical connection and I may be a bit more impressed. Until then, it's a basic evolution of a plug.
Has anyone tested the adapter?
I have a car kit and was curious if it will work
Is there any good reason for syncing your iPhone using a wired connection?
What are you on about. It's a standard PDMI connector.Amazing. When does the Samsung version come out?
Note: I do love Samsung TVs but sometimes the things they do just make me laugh. It will be extra funny when they do adopt it because they just bashed it in their printed ad.
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It has been revised 2 times since they dropped Firewire as far as I know.And they say Apple is the non-conformist? The 30-pin dock connector works on all iDevices (I preferred the early firewire version) and the new connector will work on all new devices here-on-in. Future peripherals will also use the same connector, and I for one would like to see a reverse-adapter which will allow me use my iP4S with newer peripherals (I wonder if the Camera Connection Kit will allow this?).
I don't really understand why so many people focus on "faster transfer rates" of the cables used by iOS devices when wireless syncing has been available for a year or so.
Is there any good reason for syncing your iPhone using a wired connection?
I'm hoping they can make the iPad charge faster once it's implemented on the device.
- The device watches for a momentary short on all pins (by the leading edge of the plug) to detect plug insertion/removal.
Wouldn't it technically be an 16-pin adaptor, 17 if you count the whole thing as one, since it's reversible and there's pin's on both sides?
"Take top pin 2 for example," he wrote in an e-mail to AppleInsider. "It is contiguous, electrically, with bottom pin 2.
Actually what would have made it ingenious would have been to make it a mag safe type connector. As well as the lightning.
If you charge the Li-Ion batteries too fast they'll heat up too much and heat is bad.... I'd be surprised if they can go much faster without harming the life of the batteries.
The engineering is very cool. But my biggest question is what is the tangible advantage to using this over, say, micro USB? I don't think being able to plug it in either direction is that big of an advantage, so there must be something else right?
*yawn*. I suppose it takes a bit more to get me excited. It's not like they found a new way to split the atom. Probably took an engineer a half day with his white board to map this out and make it so. I don't think this is very ground breaking and believe just like with anything it sounds a lot "cooler" and over-complicated when someone who likes to hear themselves talk explains it. Now make each connection with an encoded magnetic field and not a physical connection and I may be a bit more impressed. Until then, it's a basic evolution of a plug.
But isn't it incredibly OBVIOUS that this is the only way to design a cable?
then we need an evolution in battery technology
Has anyone tested the adapter?
I have a car kit and was curious if it will work