 JackarinoPremium
join:2006-12-28
Allendale, NJ
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Re: [iPhone] Bigger Fail Than Maps ... I just pre ordered an extra cable and adapter. I hate having to carry around all the extra cable! |
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join:2002-01-07 | reply to not quite right
i got phone on friday of launch day and ordered 3 cables for pick up at store. there were ready in 90 mins.
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That was HDMI not microUSB. So far, ALL my microUSB cables work on ALL my microUSB devices.
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 pcdebbRIP dadkinsPremium
join:2000-12-03
Brandon, FL
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maybe I can make some money from this. I had to stop by the Apple store over the weekend for something else, and they did have them there. I should buy them all and sell them on eBay
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JackarinoPremium
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Allendale, NJ
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 ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-07
Bronx, NY
kudos:6 | reply to TheHarvester
That was my point though. Many cell phones try to stuff many different signals down the microUSB plug. In this case, Samsung changed the way they send video out requiring a $30 adapter.
Lightning isn't just a modified USB connector. It does a lot more.
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| And again, that is for the HDMI output ONLY. If you want to connect your phone to an HD television you need the adapter. The microUSB plug (for charging and data transfer to a computer) is a different connector that has not changed.
If I bought the SIII I wouldn't need to buy an adapter because I don't need my phone hooked to my television. If I bought an iPhone 5 I would need to buy 4 adapters just so I can charge the phone.
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to skeechan
said by skeechan:Fixed it for ya
ANYONE's $5 microUSB cable
Apple licensed $30 Lightning cable
And.....
Monster Cable Lightning Cable $75
but the advertising will claim it speeds up the speed of light so it transfers data to your iPhone faster.
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When a device as simple as a cable for Apple's new premium phone is being argued and bitched about all over the place it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Apple screwed up big time. The only question by chance or on purpose? |
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 Count ZeroObama-Biden 2012Premium
join:2007-01-18
Winston Salem, NC | Uuuuhhhhh if you had any "insight" you'd realize that Ligntning is not "as simple as a cable". It is a long-term technology that will allow for significant future expandability using a common interface by allowing the 9 connection pins to be dynamically reconfigured based on what the chip in the Lightning cable tells the phone it is supposed to do.
I mean in theory it could do USB2.0, USB3.0, FW, digital video, act as a USB controller for USB peripherals, etc. -- MicroUSB cannot do all of that without requiring a lot of proprietary stuff on its own.
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Count ZeroObama-Biden 2012Premium
join:2007-01-18
Winston Salem, NC | reply to TheHarvester
How would you need to buy 4? 1 comes with the phone, 1 for the car and 1 more for work/travel? For over a year you haven't had to plug the phone into the computer to sync so you don't need one for your desk really... |
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| The only difference I have seen is that lightning is two way while micro usb is one way. Both use the same power and power the same things.
And btw, usb can power monitors and sound. |
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Count ZeroObama-Biden 2012Premium
join:2007-01-18
Winston Salem, NC | USB can power low resolution, high latency monitors. USB does do sound.
You should read about the Lightning design - it goes a lot further than two-way plugs. 9 dynamically reconfigurable pins gives it a world of expansion - more than MicroUSB has. |
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 RobIn Deo speramus.Premium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
kudos:3 | reply to Mike
said by Mike:$5 microUSB cable.
$30 Lightning cable.
The lightning cables are $19 dollars, not $30. But even @ $19, it's still a rip off.
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 RickNYPremium
join:2000-11-02
Manorville, NY
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I just want them to ship the stupid Lightning to 30-pin adapters that I ordered at the same time I ordered one additional Lightining to USB cable. I received the USB cable about a week after I ordered.. Still waiting on the adapters (still displays that vague ship date of October) -- and still no clue to what extent the capabilities of my Kenwood navigation system will be affected even with the adapter.
For now, I am using the somewhat crippled Bluetooth to just simply stream audio to the head unit. At least with iOS 5, I also got track information on the head unit when streaming over Bluetooth, as well as track control.. With iOS 6, I just get audio - no controls, no track info.
At least I was able to modify my iPhone 4s ProClip dock using the instructions here »www.instructables.com/id/Mod-iPh···Phone-5/ to get charging while in the dock in my vehicle (hence, my extra Lightning - USB cable)
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 ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
join:2005-03-14
Putnam, CT
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said by Count Zero:How would you need to buy 4? 1 comes with the phone, 1 for the car and 1 more for work/travel? For over a year you haven't had to plug the phone into the computer to sync so you don't need one for your desk really...
Cords right there. Then add on adapters and it becomes a ridiculous amount of money. |
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DodgePremium
join:2002-11-27 | reply to Count Zero
said by Count Zero:You should read about the Lightning design - it goes a lot further than two-way plugs. 9 dynamically reconfigurable pins gives it a world of expansion - more than MicroUSB has.
Here is what it gives you the way I see it:
1) Hunting for a proprietary cable when you need to charge your phone and forgot your own charger. At any given time we have at least 50 microUSB cables in the office between employees. While traveling any hotel front desk has a box of chargers that people left behind, your chances are much higher of finding a micro usb than this apple "innovation" if you left your charger at home.
2) You say its a way to do expansion, I see a way to mess with users. They can rearrange 2 pins and make everything on the market obsolete just to force you to buy more iStuff.
3) iPad and iPhone now use different connectors even though the two devices were probably going through design stages at the same time. So Apple can't even standardize their own devices? But if they would have released the new connector with the iPad 3 (or the new iPad or whatever they called it), then iPhone 5 would have had nothing to show as "revolutionary".
Yes Samsung SGSIII (which I don't have and don't like) needs an adapter for HDMI, but the number of people who actually hook up their phones to TVs is fairly small. |
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said by not quite right:but I didn't realize USB wasn't a digital connection, now here's the kicker it still uses USB 2.0. How freakin' confusing!!! 
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RickNYPremium
join:2000-11-02
Manorville, NY | reply to not quite right
Another great aspect of the new Lightning connector -- Apple is tightening the rules for 3rd party accessory makers, and 3rd party Lightning accessories will likely not be seen until the holidays..
»www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/c···s-stall/ |
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join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL
kudos:5 | Great aspect if you're Apple or a shareholder, I suppose.
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