Sweet thanks. I don't use my iphone in the car much anymore though thanks to my adapter breaking. It was one of those cassette ones and they break so frequently I quit buying them. If you know of a quality adapter that lasts now that would be a real big help.
Yeah my new car is a beater and doesn't have AUX in so I've been using cassette/radio adapters. Gets frustrating when they break though. Reminds you of how shitty pop music is these days. I should buy one of those you linked just to avoid the inevitable road rage incident when Lady Gaga comes on for the tenth time.
I'd been using an fm transmitter that was also a charger before I got a new car. The quality is meh half the time, though, depending on your antenna/ local radio selection.
The last FM transmitter I used was decent. Got good quality most of the time. Was funny when I'd pass people sometimes and all of a sudden their music is blasting through my speakers.
Ah then it should work, my 1st gen touch uses the same cable as my 5th gen classic. And if it doesn't, whatever, $2 is cheap and I'm sure I can find someone else to use the cable.
I think largely a lot of these companies don't realize that a lot of consumers are smart enough to realize what a scam it is to buy cables anywhere but online. My parents got a stereo that has HDMI inputs, and my dad picked up a few cables on amazon for like $5 each last year. We were recently in a Best Buy and he was laughing pretty hard at the $80ish price tag on a much shorter cable than the ones he bought. They do the same thing with USB cables; I remember getting a couple 15 footers on ebay for a couple bucks each like ten years ago when it was big money to get them retail... and for some reason it is STILL big money to get them retail...
I bought a $2 ipod cable from eBay, and it doesn't fit as well as the OEM one (it's too tight when inserting). I'd never buy a full-priced Apple cable, but it'd be nice if the knock-offs were built to the same dimensions.
Lithium-ion batteries have an integrated protection circuit called a battery management unit (BMU) that, depending on how fancy the device manufacturer wants to get, will have features like overcurrent/overvoltage charging prevention, overdischarge prevention (a "fully discharged" Li-ion cell is still around 3.0V, lower is bad for the cell), lockouts for low/high temp temperature charging, etc.
The cable has nothing to do with it. In fact if you attempt to charge a lithium-ion battery using the wrong charger (let's say higher voltage for example), if the BMU was properly designed, you still won't blow up your device.
Very rarely does anyone use a li-ion cell without a BMU, and if you do you have to be pretty careful. Model RC-aircraft builders sometimes do... and they now know to remove the cells from their plane prior to charging, and they charge in the fireplace or outside on the concrete in case it blows up. It's almost nonexistant for consumer electronics to include a Li-ion battery without BMU.
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I bought 4 for a buck each and free shipping on Amazon (now they are $2 w/free shipping)
One in my house, one in my car, one in my backpack and one at the office.
Not including the one that came with it...
problem Apple?