iPhone Extras

iPhone Extras Add Custom and Flair – Personalize Yours!

Taking the plunge and buying my most precious iPhone was only the beginning. It really has become an extension of myself. On the day I brought it home – I realized that hey – this thing is slippery. And my quest for the perfect iPhone case began.

The variety is pretty wide but I like to shop at Amazon.com. The selection is wide and the prices are good, usually there always a bit of a discount.

My favorite brand when it comes to cases for the phone and the iPod Touch is iSkin. I have used their cases in the past and found them to be durable and nice looking as well. Most reviews at Amazon seem to agree with the exception of the Fuze which many people did not like.

I ended settling for the iSkin Revo2 for 3G which seems to offer a lot of protection. It even comes with a clear hard plastic screen cover that must be removed to actually use the iPhone 3G. But it easily snaps onto the back. The only problem I forsee is that I just know that I will lose this one day.

Recently another iSkin case hit the market. This one is called the Solo and I like this one a lot too. It seems that some people change their cases to match their outfits – before I would have considered this behavior to be crazy. But now I get it. It truly is an Apple fasion statement!

Once I took care of the case, my list of iPhone extras that I still needed included a car charger. I haven’t yet made my decision on this one. With my iPod Touch I had a Kensington charger/FM transmitter that allowed me to play music through my car speakers via FM radio channel while my device charged on the go. Lo and behold there are not many of these on the market for the Apple phone. Why? Because of interference with the 3G/Edge network. All of the buzzing, popping, and crackling would make the sound unbearable. Unless you switched the phone into airplane mode – but then you would not be able to make and receive calls.

The solution seems to be to get a regular car charger and an audio cable that hooks directly from the headphone jack into the audio inputs in the car radio. That is – if your car has audio inputs. Mine does – but my car is old and the inputs are in such a spot that a cup of coffee or two may have spilled on them over the years. I will have to head down to Radio Shack and pick up the cables, cross my fingers and hope that they will work. Then I will buy my car charger.

A few final items on my list of iPhone accessories are a clock radio will dock and charge the device such as those from iHome, and just a regular old dock that will plug into a wall outlet. I a have even seen models that will charge several Apple iPods at once. Not a bad family charging solution.

What are your favorite iPhone extras?