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It will work electronically, of course, but sitting your phone on top of a skinny plastic adapter will make it so tall that the slightest push on it would snap the connector off the dock. This is with the $30 adapter. The $40 adaptor would avoid that problem, but then it wouldn't be a dock anymore.
 
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