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PadDock 10 for the Apple iPad yearns to answer the nearly year-old question: Where do you put your iPad when you're not using it?
My answer is, in the lovely case my wife bought for me. This is, apparently, not an atypical response. Apple's vision for the world's most popular tablet, however, is that it be out, visible and on most of the time. That's where a stand like SMK Electronics' $99.99 PadDock 10 comes in.
The incongruently-named PadDock 10 (there weren't PadDocks 1-through-9) is by no means the first iPad dock. Apple has its own minimalist version, and companies like iGearUSA offer a variety of cradles and stands. SMK's PadDock is, though, a little different.
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MoreLooking a bit like an LCD stand stripped of the display, the PadDock offers a full cradle for the iPad, with a little rubber bump in the middle to protect the back of the iPad and keep it from rubbing up against the plastic back of the PadDock every time you touch the screen. The silver stand includes back-firing speakers, which sit right below the docked iPad and bounce the sound off the nearby wall behind the dock. SMK Electronic execs explained that most people dock their iPads on tables, dressers and desks that are usually near a wall and, they promise, the stereo sound is actually fuller when it bounces. I took an anecdotal listen and tend to agree. This may be the first iPad dock with a physical volume scroll wheel?similar to what you might have found on an old AM/FM radio. Kind of a neat, retro idea, though I don't know if it'll catch on. (I find myself trying to imaging an iPod touch with one of those wheels).
The iPad slips in an out of the dock and plugs into the 30-pin connector on the right side fairly easily. Once docked, the iPad is held snugly in place by a small flexible lip on the left side and another on top of the PadDock. There is, however, no way to lock the iPad inside the dock.
PadDock 10 has a couple of other interesting tricks up its sleeve. It can charge and sync, though you have to flip a small switch to make the change. Charging is done either by sipping energy through the USB post (that you plug into your PC), or through the standard AC-based charger. The latter charges the iPad far more quickly. You can also rotate the PadDock a full 360 degrees and swivel it back for better viewing angles. That tilt, though, seemed a bit limited. You can't, for instance, tip back further than 20 or so degrees. Going further might be useful for, say, drawing on the Apple iPad.
SMK electronics' PadDock ships in Nov.
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