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Most folks have accepted that they'll buy new cases almost every time they upgrade their iPhones, thanks to subtle â€" and occasionally rather bold â€" design changes. But repurchasing all their accessories, including charger cables and speaker docks? That is a tougher, pricier pill to swallow.
According to TechCrunch's John Biggs, we should get our credit cards ready as that shopping spree is inevitable. At the very least you'll be looking at buying an extra cable or two (currently priced at $19) and, unless there are some third-party adapters out there to ease the pain, you may also have to kiss your current speaker dock goodbye.
Biggs writes that "three independent manufacturers" told him that the next-generation iPhone will use a 19-pin port, rather than the wider 30-pin port found on current iPhones, iPads and iPods. If true, this news will make life a bit difficult for third-party accessory manufacturers, who have accepted Apple's 30-pin port design as a standard "since Apple released the third-generation iPod" in 2003, writes Biggs.
As skeptical as I normally am regarding reports like this one, it's actually not all that unlikely that Apple would redesign the iPhone â€" and subsequently iPod and iPad â€" ports. The 19-pin design would save valuable space, after all, and interface technology has made major advancements in 10 years.
Let's not forget, the Cupertino-based company recently redesigned the MagSafe, its proprietary magnetically-attached power connector, too, and that was only around since 2006.
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