Do you know the organizer bags in backpacks
and travel bags often include several long thin bags for pens and pencils? Put
your hands up if you actually use them for pens and pencils. But I do not.
Ready Clip cable of Aviiq also has the size
of this bag: 4.7 inch long, 0.5 inch wide, and quite flat, ¼ inch thick. One
end is a standard USB 2 connector, the other end is Apple 30-pin dock
connector, mini-USB or micro-USB. (They have two packages, starting price is at
$19.99. It has been increased to $29.99 for two 30-pin cables). An end has one
plastic clip, the type that you will find on the pen cap, so you can mount them
with the pen pocket in your bag - or on thing to protect the bag, if you prefer
to look trendy and elegant.
The cable is quite short, flexible; they
cannot be bent or twisted then be back to normal. That means they will stretch
from the Mac's USB port, and your equipment will have to lie a few inches away
on the same surface. Mainly, this is fine, unless you put Mac on your laps or
on the tray of the plane, and you do not have a place to connect devices in a
fixed location like that. However, the cable will never be tangled, and they
are also very durable; because they are sturdy, we do not worry that the cable
splits where it meets the connector.
If
you fold them, you can still put them in this pen bag.
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Info
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Price: $29.99 for 2 Apple 30-pin cables; $24.99
for 1 iPod cable and 1 mini cable or micro-USB cable; $19.99 for 2 mini-USB
cables, one mini and one micro-USB, or 2 micro-USBs.
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Manufacturer: Aviiq
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Website: www.aviiq.com
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Requirements: USB port, the connecting device
via the 30-pin iPod dock connector, mini-USB or micro-USB.
Verdict
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Key points: Apple seems to be ready to leave
the 30-pin connector although millions of active devices still use it. These
cables are new and quite realistic, but the 30-pin cable only costs about $4
at www.monoprice.com (and if you fold them, you can still put them in this
pen bag). Therefore, paying $30 for both seems extravagant if you ignore the
new element.
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Advantages: the size is the same as a pen; it
fits pen bag in many laptop; comes with the clip like pen cap.
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Disadvantages: Expensive; Apple 30-pin
connector is about to be abandoned.
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Rating: 3/5
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