iPhone 3G Snafus, Chapter 37

Message boards are buzzing with angry iPhone 3G owners (myself included) who have discovered that many iPhone 1.0-compatible products are not fully compatible with the iPhone 2.0. Specifically, many third-party devices, and a good number of Apple-created devices as well, will access the data stored on the device, but does not recharge its battery.Given the terrible battery life I'm experiencing on the new 3G phone, it's all the more critical that I be able to charge my phone at every opportunity. But I've come to find that the three most important places in which I would normally recharge my phone will not do it: the dock I use for my phone and iPod at my desk, the iPhone adapter in my car (which both BMW and Apple promoted as a great new feature of that model year), and the great (and expensive) Bose speakers/docking station on my bedside table.Folks posting to various message boards have said the snafu is a hardware problem, having to do with the rearrangement of some wiring in the connector port as a consequence of shifting from Firewire to USB 2.0.Rumor has it that Apple is working on some kind of adapter, but that's going to be impractical for some devices, and just downright awkward for others. (Oh, and you can be sure that Apple will charge through the nose for it too.) In any event, this is something that should have been spotted during QA at Apple, if not much earlier.And whichever twit at Apple didn't spot this as a potential issue, or decided that it wasn't such a big deal, needs to be horsewhipped with all the charging cables that are now useless.