Simple iPod Q

It does not include the adaptor since you are able to recharge from a computer.

To see one of these in action, go to the apple store (brick n' mortar) where they have all of the pods connected to adaptors since there aren't enough computers for them all.
 
yes, when you buy an iPod, you
get an adaptor for a wall plug,

as well as a 6pin-6pin firewire cable,
the white headphones, cd&manual,
and, of couse, the iPod.


xegan
 
Does anyone know what the nobbly bit on the mains adaptor (in the cut out corner perpendicular to where the mains cable plugs in) is for? I can see no rhyme nor reason to it.
 
On the US/Northamerica version, the cutout is filled with the mains plug (see the attached image). The nobbly bit (there really isn't a better word for it, is there :) ) fits in a groove on the mains plug to keep the whole thing very solidly connected together - no wiggly bits.

(the image is borrowed from the Apple site. Used here without permission.)
 

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Aha! Thank you, that's been really bothering me. The UK version doesn't work like that (there's a cable that runs from the adaptor to the wall). Doesn't look half as nice....
 
:)

Likewise, I wondered what the UK version looked like with the huge mains plug sticking out the one corner. I'd have thought that they could have made a corner bit that fills in the cut-out, with just the cord coming out of it, though. I think it would have looked a lot better that way, but probably even more expensive...

I'm guessing that the European version works the same way (with the cord), but I wonder about places like Oz, where it's a two-blade design like the US, but with the blades angled differently. Do they get a cord (like the UK/Europe) or is it a block that fits like the US/Northamerica version? Just curious... Anyone know?
 
Um, could someone explain this to me? I kind of understand what you mean by the nobbly bit (the part that is exposed when you remove the little part with the plug), but what I don't understand is how the UK versions are made.

Just interested a little bit...
 
If you take out the corner section of the adaptor, then there's a little 2-pin socket in the main part of the adaptor. The UK version has a figure-of-8 mains cable, one end of which plugs into this 2-pin socket, the other end of which attaches to the wall.
 
we don't get the corner section, which is why I was asking what the nobbly bit was for.

BTW - has anyone seen this ridiculous thing that Griffin has brought out? It turns your iPod into a Universal remote controller.

WHY?
 
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