Griffin PowerDock 2 charges iPhones and iPods two-at-a-time
By Darren Murph 
posted May 30th 2008 11:24AM
posted May 30th 2008 11:24AM
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will my Rio Karma fit?
sure! use this hammer!
My pleasure : )
Aww, I miss my Karma...
That actually seems pretty useful for couples.
Or anyone with two iPods..
They had a dual charger before, but it was discontinued in favor of the quad. Which to me just seems silly. I rarely have need of charging my ipod at the same time as my iPhone. The wife and I faithfully charged our iPhones every night, or else we paid the price of a dead phone by noon the next day. When we get our new ones, this will be high on my must-have list.
Wife?
Indeed.
Pretty nice, and it'll keep me from having to remove one of my USB peripherals to make way for another iPod.
I wish they would make "special" docks that were large enough so I can charge my iphone/ipod without taking it out of the case!
the only case that I am aware of that works like this is the Agent-18 case. I have it and is came with an insert for the universal dock:
http://www.agent18.com/scripts/prodview2.asp?idproductpages=16
It does not, however, fit into the dock that came with the iPhone...
I love my Agent 18 case for my iPod 5G. The special dock insert that comes with it is worth every penny.
Thanks, I haven't seen that case. Too bad I'll be getting a new iPhone soon, I hope :)
the iphone version requires you to remove the bottom half of the case for it to dock, so special dock connector
It's a nice idea - my wife has a nano and a shuffle and I have a fifth gen, so the desk is a mess between the three.
BUT: It looks like this thing only charges, it doesn't allow you to plug into the USB for feeding the iPod.
I'm a little less impressed now. :(
Exactly! I can not for the life of me figure out why they didn't add a powered USB hub to this thing to allow syncing as well. That would have added next to zero cost, and zero engineering time, but would have made it a must have. I don't care so much about just charging.
That's probably because iTunes will only let you sync one iPod / iPhone at a time with all current and future iPods / iPhones.
Useless with out the ability to hook up and sync to your computer.
also useless without the ability to charge up the Apple bluetooth headset.
You know it wouldn't have been hard for them to integrate a USB hub into this thing.
Now I'm thinking I'm gonna have to make my own out of that curly maple in my dad's woodshop.
Thats funny, all my cell phones came with chargers.
I can't imagine wanting to spend $50 on a charger designed for a product that comes with a perfectly good charger.
just need the iPhone to support bluetooth or wifi sync!!
Another pile of iPod toot to perch on top of the tons of iPod toot already clogging up landfill sites the world over. Sheesh.
Only two iPhones or iPods? What about a six-pack charger for the elite users when Apple's stock hits $250 a share. A year from now most well-to-do families will have a few iPhones or iPods for each family member. That two-charger device is already looking pretty inadequate.
They also make a 4 device charger, it's just available yet. $69.99 Coming in July, iLounge says.
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powerdock
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/griffin-powerdock-charging-station-for-ipod-iphone-now-available/14387
crap...will they come out with one for the family...charging 4-5 at a time??
there /is/ one like that. Try clicking the links in the article
What happens when my wife and i use it to charge our iphones and she takes mine by mistake and my mistress calls? What then? This is a bad idea.
Then I guess it's time to put a pass lock on your phone. That, or simply correspond with your mistress with smoke signals.
This is so great :) Now I can charge my both iPhone (8GB & 16GB) at same time (Oh sorry, one owned by my girl friend, the 16 GB one lol)
Thanks for the awesome update! very usefull!
This seems fairly unnecessary. On the other hand, if you don't like it, don't buy it, and $49 isn't a bad price when Apple probably wants $29 or $39 for a single-device dock.
$49 for a device that:
1) should have come with removable batteries like a standard phone
2) allowing you to take a charged spare with you which actually costs less than this device
3) ...and swapped in on-the-fly at any time the battery dies
4) ...with no charging downtime
5) ...and no nightly charging rituals needed.
6) ...and that doesn't have to be returned to the manufacturer/ distributor for desoldering and replacement (with yet more downtime) once its useful life of 400-500ish charge cycles is up.
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/service/battery/
The "nonremovable-battery-at-all-costs" logic would baffle me entirely if not for the obvious economic benefits Apple get from it ($85.95 USD for a spare batt, niiiice work if you can get it).