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Your mileage may vary.I used this with my 4th Gen iPod in my car. Take this for what it's worth. When the first hard drive died, I thought "Okay, bad hard drive and I had left the iPod in the car on some freezing nights." When I replaced the hard drive and that died too, I thought "Okay, maybe bad iPod design." But when we used my wife's iPod Photo, which was quite reliable, in the car on a cross country trip and it began to show the same problem, I began to suspect the Griffin PowerPod and stopped using it with the iPod Photo, after which it seemed to run just fine.
I don't know why it matters but it does. This WILL NOT WORK with an ipod video or a iphone or an ipod touch ( I tried it with all) I bought this to charge my iphone and it seemed like it had the correct attachment, however the other end is firewire which WILL NOT charge the iphone.the iphone will say incompatible. Maybe if you have an old black and white ipod this will work
Always handy to have if you are playing your i-pod in the car on a long journery or you just forgot the recharge at home.
My dog chewed on the one I got with my iPod originally & had looked for a replacement. This is exactly what I was looking for, works great. This is the only one that worked with my first generation iPod.
Also, watch out if you turn off/on your car while it is plugged in - on a new car with no other charger problems this seemed to cause my ipod to lock up. The ipod can still be charged from other sources so it's not the ipod's fault. I'm glad we just paid a few dollars for this. The charger gives a nag screen each time you plug it in (1G Nano or 1G Video) that is a minor inconvenience, but the real problem is that it has completely stopped working about 4 months after we got it. It shows that it is charging my ipod and then the ipod shows that it is fully charged, but once it is unplugged it dies a few minutes later. Also, not a problem with other chargers.
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