The Iphone Docking Station – Something Mythical? 2
But the most people own an iPhone 3G or 3Gs and also just know little about the old dock. So was this “mystical” feeling about the original Apple dock created.
Today Apple still sells a new version of the dock on their Apple Store for around $50 but it’s by far not the best you can get for your little computer. Many companies discovered the potential and developed their own docking stations. Now, as the iPhone and iPod is not just a product but has become a fashion or even a lifestyle, there are also thousands of variants of these docking stations. You’ll find funny ones like a pig or a ghost formed or qualitative ones from Bose and co.
The question is: Do I really need one? Well the answer is in almost every case: “no!”
But you also don’t really need an iPhone, both are just things you like to have. So what you should do is to think about what you like to have. The funny stations or the bigger no-name docks seem to be cool on the first glance but most time you’ll buy them and never really use them. So the best way is to decide to buy a really good but expensive Dock that you’ll use as a addition for your living-room and as alternative to a good CD-player (who still has many new CDs?). The other way is to decide for a really cheap and simple one that just adds speakers to your phone to make it a portable “mini-gettoblaster”. It just depends on what you want your iPhone to be: A cool little computer, a great sound system or just a gadget for the next party? It’s up to you…