Yeah, yeah, we know -- another iP** dock -- but this is actually one of the first docking audio speakers approved to work with the
iPhone without either dropping into airplane mode or
assaulting your ears with janky GSM signal noise (it also docks regular old iPods, of course). To boot, it charges the thing and has incoming call support -- more than slightly mitigated by the fact that you still have to actually remove the phone from the dock to take the call, a drawback the Altec Lansing rep said was because Apple neglected to include support for passing call audio across the docking interface. Still, if you happen to use your iPhone as jukebox at home or work, you can pick up this quite decent-sounding speaker system in February if it's worth $200 to you.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
JBoll @ Jan 10th 2008 6:35PM
I have the Zune dock....sound quality is poor.
rodan32 @ Jan 10th 2008 7:56PM
For the $35-odd bucks I paid for mine, sounds great =)
Bassir @ Jan 10th 2008 6:55PM
It really isn't worth it to me.
Dusty Nipples @ Jan 10th 2008 7:16PM
The official death of HiFi has occued. People are now using their phones as their home audio source.
Jason @ Jan 10th 2008 7:29PM
If that's what you're going by, then it died years ago when multi-gig PMP/DAPs started coming out.
Reader @ Jan 10th 2008 8:23PM
What a shallow observation. Will you still say that when said phones have 300gbs of flash memory and sites only sell 300kbs mp3s and FLAC formatted songs?
jason51873 @ Jan 10th 2008 7:34PM
Unsightly...
Ben @ Jan 10th 2008 7:37PM
Stolen music? Maybe.
adam @ Jan 10th 2008 7:50PM
What about bluetooth?
Scott @ Jan 11th 2008 10:28AM
Bluetooth would really be the way to go here. The downside is you'd go through the battery a lot faster without docking it to charge.
The biggest loss is I want to link to my car's system without taking the device out of my pocket. Why leave that kind of seamless integration to phone use only? This is already getting common with car keys themselves, so why not music players? It's not just Apple though--I don't know of any mp3 player that seamlessly uses bluetooth to link to a car's system.
I have an iPhone, but I'm objective enough to know the bluetooth support is lame as hell compared to what it COULD be.