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Double-Dipping: iPod Accessories
The “Works with iPhone” logo ensures happy shopping, but your existing iPod
gear might play nice with iPhone. If you’re game, keep the following advice
in mind.
External Speakers
Most speakers that connect through the 30-pin port on the bottom of modern
iPods also fit iPhone. You may need one of Apple’s Universal Dock adapters—a
white plastic booster seat that makes most iPod models sit securely in speaker
docks—for a good fit, especially if you have an iPhone 3G. (And frankly, external
woofers and tweeters sound infinitely better than the iPhone’s tiny, tinny
speaker.)
One major thing to remember, though: electronic interference. If you forget,
the iPhone will remind you. If it senses you’re seating it in a non-“Works with
iPhone” speaker system, you’ll see a message suggesting that you put it in
Airplane mode. Doing so takes care of the interference, but it also prevents
you for making or getting phone calls. You can blow past the warning and
keep Airplane mode off, but you may get some unwanted static blasts with
your music.
FM Transmitters
Those little gadgets that broadcast your iPod’s music to an empty frequency
on your dashboard radio are a godsend for iPodders who don’t want to listen
to the same 40 songs over and over on commercial radio. Unfortunately,
these transmitters are not so hot for the iPhone. Again, electronic interference
is an issue, unless you put the phone into Airplane mode. Transmitters that
connect through the headphone jack, meanwhile, probably won’t fit the firstgeneration
iPhone.
Earphones
If you’ve ditched your telltale white iPod earphones for a higher fidelity headset,
you probably won’t be able to connect it to the Original iPhone’s sunken
headphone jack—at least not without an inexpensive jack adapter from Belkin
and other manufacturers. Thankfully, the second-generation iPhone 3G has
a normal unrecessed headphone port; you can plug just about any regular
headphones or earbuds into it.
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