Thread: United connects to iPods and iPhones
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2008-06-17 , 00:10
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Originally Posted by tabletrat View Post
Well, from an iPod point of view, it would be pretty useless adding just a USB connection, as then all you could do is charge it, but the OP said you could watch video on the seatbacks. The only way you could do that on an iPod is either a 3 pin 3.5mm lead, or the dock connector. the 3.5mm lead doesn't give you power, so I assume they are talking about the dock connector.
Not exactly true. My pioneer radio has a iPod connector cable or a standard USB Female cable (ie Plug in the iPod Sync Cable). Plug an iPod into either one of the cables and the radio reads the iPod just fine. Plug non-ipods into the USB and it will read them, but not use the iPod like menu functions, or read the tags correctly.

My point is: it doesn't take a dock connector to do it, just a USB port and the owner needs his/her iPod cable, assuming the software in the airplane is designed to read iPods correctly.
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