So I’ve been looking to awesome out my car with a decent dock that’ll integrate my iPhone into my car. I’m not looking for anything special, just something to hold my phone and keep it within arms reach. I also want to charge my phone when it’s juice is low and stream some tunes. I bought a griffin TuneFlex for around $35. It worked great. It has an integrated 3.5mm audio out and charger. The CLA (cigarette lighter adapter) has an attached goose neck extender that swivels and stays in position. The dock portion (let’s call it the seat for the sake of this article) is mounted on a connector which rotates 360 degrees and ratchets/locks into 9 preselected positions. This solution was perfect, I used a cassette adapter plugged into the 3.5mm connector of the TuneFlex to stream music from my music library and Pandora. After a few months of awesome, the ratchet mechanism stopped doing what it’s supposed to… ratchet and lock. The techy nerd in me wouldn’t accept such desecration to the finest technological advancement of modern history… yea, that’s right, the Iphone. Read the rest of this entry »
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