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How to: Modify your 2G dock to fit your 3G iPhone

21 July, 2008 by Andrew

 

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Annoyingly the 3G iPhone doesn’t come with a dock, but no matter, those of us who bought the Apple Bluetooth headset have a dock anyway. Except the 3G iPhone doesn’t fit a dock that was designed for the 2G iPhone…

The 3G iPhone is a little wider and a little thicker in the centre of the back, about 1mm or so.

Apple now sells a dock separately for the 3G iPhone, but not a combined iPhone and bluetooth headset version. The solution is to modify the old headset dock to take the new iPhone.
If you previously had a 2G iPhone and want to use the dock from that, the procedure is exactly the same.

Place your 3G iPhone in the dock as best you can and use a CD pen to mark the bits that need trimming (hint, the centre 3/4 portion of the back, and the left and right sides):

 

Using a Dremmel type tool carefully remove the excess material:

 

It’s as easy as that, one 3G iPhone sitting happily in a 2G iPhone dock:


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