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Make Your Old iPhone Dock Accommodate Your iPhone 3G's Bulbous Arse
Posted by Matt Buchanan at 4:00 AM on July 22, 2008
There's no dock in the iPhone 3G's box. And the iPhone 3G doesn't fit in the original iPhone's dock. You could pay US$29 for a new one. Or you could just make the damn thing fit in the dock you already have. All you need is steady hands, a Dremel and a buffing cloth. Carve, buff, voila. Here are the happy, frugal results:
Of course, your original iPhone might not fit so harmoniously after this mod. [Hard Mac via Engadget]
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rjp
Posted 4:48 AM 22/7/08
I have to admit, I paid the $30 for the new dock. I would have hacked up my old one, but I was selling it in the complete accessory package with my old phone.
rjp
strider_mt2k
Posted 4:42 AM 22/7/08
Tip:
Put a piece of tape over the connector before you start to save cleaning crap out of it afterward.
strider_mt2k
GeekyNerdGuy
Posted 4:32 AM 22/7/08
@badhatharry: Well, thank goodness it was your friend's dock!
GeekyNerdGuy
butaneko
Posted 4:30 AM 22/7/08
@turbineseaplane:
The real joke is having a car stereo hookup worth $100+ that no longer charges the 3G.
butaneko
turbineseaplane
Posted 4:23 AM 22/7/08
I did it with a Dremel.
Works great!
Screw Apple and the extra $30. What a joke.
turbineseaplane
Joseph
Posted 4:23 AM 22/7/08
This is one thing that I really don't like that Apple does. You need to buy a new dock for everything.
Joseph
monomyth
Posted 4:12 AM 22/7/08
it fits in my original dock, what's the problem?
monomyth
hardenstuhl
Posted 4:11 AM 22/7/08
I can't believe I buy Apple stuff. They get me every time s a new version comes out. I have to start all over again by buying all new accessories. It is starting to piss me off more and more. But them my wanton lust increases and well ..... I am really stupid.
Where did my brains go?
hardenstuhl
sfokevin
Posted 4:10 AM 22/7/08
Enough of this McGyver mentality - You are supposed to be an obedient IConsumer!!!!!
sfokevin
westonalan
Posted 4:10 AM 22/7/08
I went with the Agent 18 plastic case which also comes with a universal dock connector, pretty slick if you have the universal iPod dock laying around. However the case is a bit slippery, haven't dropped it yet (knock on wood), its my first iPhone so i'm still trying to figure out the best way to carry the thing in my pocket. I also have a Incipio fitted gel case from ATT, that's also not bad, much more grippy, but less drop protection.
westonalan
Alluvian
Posted 4:09 AM 22/7/08
Any knife will work as well, that stuff is not hard to cut away at. If the plugins are the same (obviously they are) then its a pretty obvious solution.
Good to hear confirmation that the plug itself has not changed at all.
Not that I will ever see an IPhone in the wild to purchase.
I don't really want to give ATT my money for something they can't even give me a delivery date on.
ATT Goon: We guarantee it within 21 days!!!
Me: Or what?
ATT Goon: What do you mean?
Me: What do I get if you don't get it in 21 days?
ATT Goon: Um... Nothing, I guess?
Me: Yeah, an unbacked guarantee that only costs me $300. Fabulous.
Alluvian
badhatharry
Posted 4:08 AM 22/7/08
I tried to do this a couple of days ago to a friend's dock. It still charges, but no longer syncs.
badhatharry
Triplet66
Posted 4:07 AM 22/7/08
iPhone Dock=Pwned!
LMAO!!!
Trip
Triplet66
reamon
Posted 4:05 AM 22/7/08
Thank gawd for stories such as this. Cutting edge.
reamon
OGHowie
Posted 4:04 AM 22/7/08
Again, $29 is such a rip.
OGHowie
alexarch
Posted 4:02 AM 22/7/08
"all you need is a Dremel"
bwahahahahahaha
alexarch
leetXcore
Posted 5:08 AM 22/7/08
That phone looks terrible, someone beat the shit out of it.
leetXcore
BadBoyNDSU
Posted 5:05 AM 22/7/08
@butaneko: I feel you. My iPhone 3G is my first iAnything, and I bought the cable for my sweet Alpine deck. Data is good, charging is bad. Thanks Apple, for breaking the backwards compatibility on the first device I have ever owned from Apple.
BadBoyNDSU
Alluvian
Posted 5:49 AM 22/7/08
Why does almost every Iphone pic I have seen have AIM on the homepage even though most everyone pans it as being a POS app?
Alluvian
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 5:34 AM 22/7/08
God bless Apple. They charge you for the dock and then they charge you separately for the cord to plug it in.
Is it me, or is Cupertino copying Microsoft's XBox 360 business plan?
OMG! Ponies!
Rand
Posted 5:26 AM 22/7/08
I'm going to do this to my dock right away. I'm running out of sincere sounding answers every time my phone asks me, "Does this dock make me look fat?"
Rand
Theophilus P. Wildebeeste
Posted 7:04 AM 22/7/08
@Alluvian: MMS messaging.
Theophilus P. Wildebeeste
shorty63136
Posted 6:47 AM 22/7/08
@butaneko: Does your deck allow useage with your 2.0 software? I bought my stereo right after I got the first iPhone and it wouldn't play music through it.
It's the predecessor to this one: [www.bestbuy.com]
shorty63136
aobjects
Posted 9:39 AM 22/7/08
@Alluvian: My wife and I went into an AT&T store on Sat to order an iPhone on direct fullfillment. Only 2 days later (1 business day) she received an email from FedEx telling her it is on the way. Should be here tommorow. So if you want one without waiting in like for hours at the LAME Apple stores, you could have it in a few days (even though AT&T said it would take 10-21 days)
aobjects
Mrbungleface
Posted 5:02 AM 23/7/08
whatever is behind the i phone in the second pic looks like a bong.... ahem.... i mean a water pipe...
Mrbungleface
Justifan
Posted 9:25 AM 22/7/08
lol brilliant, that was what crossed my mind when i heard the socket was exactly the same but only the shape of the back kept it from sitting properly. a little plastic is nothing to a dremel, its just a matter of whether you care if you have a few scratches on your dock.
Justifan