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Originally Posted by boswd
that HDMI adapter or dongle is availabe now on amazon for under $10? That's was what I referring to in the post you quoted.
the iPad 2 has HDMI but in limited proprietary format. You have to buy their adapter for this to work.
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One of the points of the new iPad 2 is its thinness and lightness. If an onboard HDMI port had been added the new iPad would not have been so thin.
The 30 Pin dock connector on the iDevices is not just for connectivity to the Computer for data transfer/charging, it is also able to carry the signals required for the HDMI, USB, Video Out, GPS in, Blood pressure cuffs, etc etc. By standadizing on the 30 pin dock connector they allow 3rd party manufacturers to develop other addons that would be harder if only usiong micro USB ( and yes I concede if they HAD used micro USB then those addons might have been usable on other, non apple devices....man I hate it when I can see both sides of an argument
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That being said I was quite surprised that the iPad 2 did not come with a Micro USB port, if only for charging, as the EU decreed that all phones were to have that as a standard copnnector for any data enabled phone after January 11th.
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/08/05/...rd-in-january/
While not a phone and not covered by that, I was expecting to see it implemented anyway. I would think the iphone 5 will have that connector or perhaps a new dock connector to micro usb cable included in EU released iphone 5's
Andy