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Apple's Smaller iOS Device Dock Connector Said to Include 19 Pins
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Apple doesn't move the headphone ports for functional purposes. More often, they move it because the internal design dictates it.
I don't care if the speaker grilles are asymmetrical. One is a speaker, the other a microphone. I don't look at it enough to care.
If USB3 makes synching faster, bring it on. Maybe more info in the cloud can save synching time? Why back up apps when synching? Just backup the app data and let iTunes download the app from the PC.
Aluminum can be anodized to harden it. I hate cases and bumpers because they make a super-thin design thicker.
IMHO Curved is more comfortable than flat. I actually preferred the 3GS over the 4.
I don't care if the speaker grilles are asymmetrical. One is a speaker, the other a microphone. I don't look at it enough to care.
If USB3 makes synching faster, bring it on. Maybe more info in the cloud can save synching time? Why back up apps when synching? Just backup the app data and let iTunes download the app from the PC.
Aluminum can be anodized to harden it. I hate cases and bumpers because they make a super-thin design thicker.
IMHO Curved is more comfortable than flat. I actually preferred the 3GS over the 4.
I was looking forward to a totally new design but we shall see. I sure hope apple or a 3rd party will make adapters. I really don't feel like buying a new iHome radio...
Exactly, I would be okay with this, and then eventually making all my 30 pin chargers into 19 pin (probably have about 5 of them all around the house and office).
"Fruit" for thought...
Every time a new iPhone is released a knockoff of it is produced roughly around the same time. To stay ahead of the game, a lot of these knockoffs have tried to extrapolate what the next redesign would look like and push that out the door. The most obvious of these have been the "iPhone 5G". It was released the same time as the iPhone 4S, and looked almost legitimate. The real difference was that the edges were tapered and the corners were rounded, looking a lot like what people suspected the new iPhone would look like before the 4S was announced.
The question here is: Is it possible that the "leaked" parts may just be parts from manufacturers ramping up for knockoff production?
Every time a new iPhone is released a knockoff of it is produced roughly around the same time. To stay ahead of the game, a lot of these knockoffs have tried to extrapolate what the next redesign would look like and push that out the door. The most obvious of these have been the "iPhone 5G". It was released the same time as the iPhone 4S, and looked almost legitimate. The real difference was that the edges were tapered and the corners were rounded, looking a lot like what people suspected the new iPhone would look like before the 4S was announced.
The question here is: Is it possible that the "leaked" parts may just be parts from manufacturers ramping up for knockoff production?
I will be interested in seeing what they charge for the cable if it did use Thunderbolt. Something tells me very few folks will buy a 50 USD cable (nor would Apple include such cable with the device).
I think we're all in for a rude awakening come this Fall. Remember all the iPod touch shaped iPhone leaks? Or the wedge shaped iPhone that looked like a micro MacBook Air?
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Or discarded design prototypes used just to foil and track leakers.
Yes, you must be.
Yea, glass breaks instead. Give me metal over glass any day. The scratches are trivial.
Better yet, give me something like the black case of the old Macintosh Powerbook G3. That was sexy, pleasing to the touch, indestructible and didn't show scratches so you should be happy.
As to the connector, just go with thunder and get the transition over with.
It won't be Thunderbolt. Apple just launched brand new Macs with USB 3, they want you to go out and buy those (and you should
).This will be a totally new Apple-designed USB 2/3 Mag Safe connection that will be the new "dock connector" replacing the old on all iDevices.
It will work blazingly fast with new USB 3 machines, and of course also work with any USB 2 machine with same cable.
Exactly.
What happens when an iPhone drops?
Many times nothing.
Now with a MagSafe connector, the risk of corrupting the synch process by accidentally pulling out the cable ... (especially if you don't work on the desk but in your bed with your Macbook or on the couch / on the go / ...)
Glassed Silver:mac
On the bottom
Headphone jack on the bottom makes sense, like the iPod Mini and the iPod Touch.
The headphone jack won't include composite video. Apple originally did that on the video iPod, then quickly removed it on the next iteration. The headphone jack has a tip and 3 rings: ground, right, left, and microphone. No space for composite video there.
Heck composite video inputs are starting to get harder and harder to find. My Sharp Aquos LCD TV requires a special (non-standard, but still easy to get) cable to support composite video.
With Airplay and being able to access the video files over the dock connector, everything is moving digitally.
While I think the correct thing for Apple to do is to use a micro-USB connector (as mandated by the EU), I don't think they will. The fees they get from the manufacturers for a proprietary connector is just too appealing.
Although, if they did use micro-USB, they could potentially use the same trick they did in the gum-stick version of the iPod Shuffle, where they had extra pins in the USB jack (behind and between the standard USB pins) for audio output. This arrangement would still require a special cable (possibly chipped) for the extra audio/video features, but a standard micro-USB cable could be used for charging and syncing.
It'd be neat to have USB3 support as well. I doubt there'd be Thunderbolt syncing. Most PCs (Windows and Macs included), do not have Thunderbolt built-in. My almost 3-year-old MacBook Pro (that I just put an SSD in to extend its life), and my 24" iMac do not have Thunderbolt and I would be disappointed if that were the only way.
Note that the latest iPhones support WiFi Syncing when charging...
Headphone jack on the bottom makes sense, like the iPod Mini and the iPod Touch.
The headphone jack won't include composite video. Apple originally did that on the video iPod, then quickly removed it on the next iteration. The headphone jack has a tip and 3 rings: ground, right, left, and microphone. No space for composite video there.
Heck composite video inputs are starting to get harder and harder to find. My Sharp Aquos LCD TV requires a special (non-standard, but still easy to get) cable to support composite video.
With Airplay and being able to access the video files over the dock connector, everything is moving digitally.
While I think the correct thing for Apple to do is to use a micro-USB connector (as mandated by the EU), I don't think they will. The fees they get from the manufacturers for a proprietary connector is just too appealing.
Although, if they did use micro-USB, they could potentially use the same trick they did in the gum-stick version of the iPod Shuffle, where they had extra pins in the USB jack (behind and between the standard USB pins) for audio output. This arrangement would still require a special cable (possibly chipped) for the extra audio/video features, but a standard micro-USB cable could be used for charging and syncing.
It'd be neat to have USB3 support as well. I doubt there'd be Thunderbolt syncing. Most PCs (Windows and Macs included), do not have Thunderbolt built-in. My almost 3-year-old MacBook Pro (that I just put an SSD in to extend its life), and my 24" iMac do not have Thunderbolt and I would be disappointed if that were the only way.
Note that the latest iPhones support WiFi Syncing when charging...
IMO, it is not a pretty big change if all they do is elongate the darn thing. A stretched 4/4S is just .... meh.
MagSafe + Magnetic items in my pocket sounds like fun! Looking forward to my keys, pocket knife, headphone plug, and pens getting stuck to the phone.
Also, on a device the size of an iPhone, I could imagine having magnets inside it may have a detrimental impact on the internal magnetometer. You can calibrate it with the magnets, but as for when a cable is plugged in, that calibration is void.
But I really feel for the poor bloke who bought that huge 10,000 watt dock, as that's now useless!
Also, on a device the size of an iPhone, I could imagine having magnets inside it may have a detrimental impact on the internal magnetometer. You can calibrate it with the magnets, but as for when a cable is plugged in, that calibration is void.
But I really feel for the poor bloke who bought that huge 10,000 watt dock, as that's now useless!
With wifi sync, there is no longer the fear of corrupting the sync process. Notice when you sync now, it does not say "sync in progress". Instead there is the spinning wheel at the top. You can unplug in the middle of the sync and it will continue in the background.
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I promise that there will be an adapter, maybe even in the box. They did it for the magsafe 2 and there are exponentially more 30 pin docks in the wild then magsafe 1's.
I was using the term Vaporware loosely. But it actually does almost fit. It was Yahoo and Google's most searched term of 2011 I believe before the 4S came out, so it's a product that Apple didn't have to announce, everyone expected. I'm theorizing that it doesn't exist at all, and we'll have a new iPhone, but it won't be called the iPhone 5. Really, no matter what it shouldn't be anyway. If you go by iPhone naming trends, it should be the iPhone 6.
iPhone (1)
iPhone 3G (2)
iPhone 3GS (3)
iPhone 4 (4)
iPhone 4S (5 because they counted the 3GS as 3 with the same level of update)
iPhone 6
-JE
I still think that Thunderbolt should be put in, along with USB3. There would be 2 cables: One for iPhone to Thunderbolt, and one for iPhone to USB3.
Can't the iPhone's memory can't handle speeds that are in excess of that of USB3?
Can't the iPhone's memory can't handle speeds that are in excess of that of USB3?