{"id":27173,"date":"2012-09-13T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T10:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=27173"},"modified":"2012-09-13T11:50:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T10:50:15","slug":"the-dock-is-dead-jamboxs-take-on-the-new-iphone-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/the-dock-is-dead-jamboxs-take-on-the-new-iphone-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dock is Dead: Jambox&#8217;s take on the new iPhone 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size:12px; line-height:16px;\">The iPhone 5 includes <a title=\"Apple announce the iPhone 5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/apple-announce-the-iphone-5\/\">a number of key upgrades<\/a> over the iPhone 4S, but it also has a downside: The new iPhone uses a new dock connector called Lightning, which is vastly smaller but also ends compatibility with nine years of accessories that made use of the old 30 pin connector. While a bulky and pricey adapter will be available, most vendors are making the move to wireless as standards continue to improve.<\/p>\n<p>One of these is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/by-brand\/jawbone\">Jawbone<\/a>, who produce the popular Jambox line of portable Bluetooth speakers. They&#8217;ve released a video in response to the news and it&#8217;s quite something. Take a look!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hj1iO78d6AM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So there you have it &#8211; clearly Jawbone aren&#8217;t shedding any tears over the loss of the dock connector.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? Do you have a lot of Apple accessories that won&#8217;t work with the new Lightning connector on the iPhone 5 or, like Jawbone, have you already made the jump to Bluetooth and wireless? Or maybe you&#8217;re just going to buy a new vanload of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/apple\/iphone-5\">iPhone 5 accessories<\/a>? Let us know in the comments below or talk to us on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mobilefun\">@mobilefun<\/a>!<\/div>\n\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.27.4 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;\">\n<div id=\"bari-widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone 5 includes a number of key upgrades over the iPhone 4S, but it also has a downside: The new iPhone uses a new dock connector called Lightning, which is vastly smaller but also ends compatibility with nine years of accessories that made use of the old 30 pin connector. While a bulky and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155,6],"tags":[5101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27178,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27173\/revisions\/27178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}