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Originally Posted by jphughan
Yep, which is why these cradles are so dumb IMHO. They're crazy expensive, and if you're lucky they MIGHT work with two successive phone generations if Apple doesn't change the physical shape, like the 3G/3GS and 4/4S pairs. But there's no guarantee of that, and given how long it takes BMW to release a cradle for a given phone, you may already be thinking about your next phone by the time it's available. The iPhone 4 cradle came out about 8 months after the 4, only to be immediately recalled and then re-released about 3 months later. If Apple hadn't slipped on the 4S launch by several months, BMW would have been releasing a cradle for one phone almost exactly when Apple replaced it with their next one.
And all of this just to get PlugIn, video playback (only while parked, mind you), and the ability to use your USB jack for some other device?
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Another issue that I have heard with the cradle is that the iPhone has a tendancy to overheat in the cradle inside the closed armrest since there is little ability for heat created by the phone to dissipate.
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