New Sync & Charge USB Cable for Apple iPad (Black, Color), also support iPhone 3G/3GS/4G, iPod Touch 2G/3G/4G, iPod Nano.

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 36 x 0.1 x 0.1 inches ; 1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0036BNRGO
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 28, 2010

Product Description

Use an extra Apple iPad USB Cable for charging and syncing your Apple iPad with your Mac or PC. Save yourself the hassle of carrying all the bulky cables to support your Apple iPad. Apple iPad USB cable makes it simple and convenient to travel with its dual sync and charge functionality.

Customer Reviews

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars iPad or iPod: same performance at 1/3rd the price including shipping, September 8, 2010

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Allan Ray Miller "Ray's Reviews" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Sync & Charge USB Cable for Apple iPad (Black, Color), also support iPhone 3G/3GS/4G, iPod Touch 2G/3G/4G, iPod Nano. (Electronics)

It just works.

This cable is great. It charges and it syncs both my iPad and my iPod touch. I'm sure it would do the same for an iPhone as well.

And *even with shipping included* I could buy three of these for the same price that Apple charges for just one of their cables. Quite a deal. (FYI I bought mine from CrazyOnDigital through Amazon.)

(Footnote: As many of you may know the iPad draws more current than the iPods or iPhones so the iPad's charger can run up to 10W [vs. the normal 5W of the other devices.] Not that it matters anyway, because that's just the charger not the cable. I mention this just in case someone is confused: yes this cable will work with the higher 10W draw for the iPad as well as the lower draws of the iPods and iPhones.)

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great with iPad, August 30, 2010

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This review is from: New Sync & Charge USB Cable for Apple iPad (Black, Color), also support iPhone 3G/3GS/4G, iPod Touch 2G/3G/4G, iPod Nano. (Electronics)

It's always been obvious to me that Apple is ripping people off BADLY by charging so much money for simple items like cables and chargers. It's shameless.

Here we have a cable that is currently priced at about [...] (including shipping), and is for all intents and purposes identical to the official Apple cable that came with the iPad. Actually, I'd give this [...] cable a slight advantage because it's black, and does not draw attention to itself, like the "official" white cable does.

This black cable is about the same size as the original -- perhaps 1 inch longer. Both connector ends of the cable are identical in size and shape to the original. The width of the cable is almost literally a hair thinner -- probably just a difference in the cable jacket material or something.

Functionally, there are no issues with sync or stability. Works great every time.

Also, a note to people who dislike getting tons of useless throw-away packaging: it was shipped in the smallest of floppy-plastic envelopes (that strong, stretchy gray plastic envelope material, but very small), and did not have any other packaging, aside from the little plastic loop holding it in a coil. It was shipped to me by ElectroshopUSA (nice job).

UPDATE March 2, 2011: It looks like the photo in this product has changed, and now there is some kind of storage pouch that comes with the cable. So this no longer appear to be the same product I reviewed here. It really bothers me that Amazon allows products to change like this without creating a new product in their catalog.

For the record, the cable in the photo does NOT appear to have the exact same connections that the original iPad cable has.

I know that I posted my review on the correct product because my order status at the top of this page still says that I purchased this item. ("You purchased this item on August 22, 2010.")

I'm not saying this cable doesn't work, but I am saying please verify the product yourself, because my review was when the cable offered here looked identical to the original iPad cable, just in black color instead of white.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great !, August 12, 2010

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Tina V. Wright (Safety Harbor, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Sync & Charge USB Cable for Apple iPad (Black, Color), also support iPhone 3G/3GS/4G, iPod Touch 2G/3G/4G, iPod Nano. (Electronics)

I bought 2 of these that my husband and I use for our iPads. We have been able to successfully sync/charge/connect our iPads with these cables.