Plaidophile

So, because of my new phone, I decided to get a third-party generic knockoff charging dock for it.

The travel charger which came with the phone was a bit dumb in that it's a little wallwart puck with a USB jack, and you still need to carry a mini-USB cable around with you to plug them together. This charging dock is a bit dumb in that there's an integrated USB cable (for plugging into the computer) and a separate mini-USB jack for plugging in the included AC adapter (which has an integrated mini-USB lead). Fortunately, those dumbnesses cancel out — I plug the integrated USB cable of the charging dock into the included OEM travel charger, and use the charging dock's mini-USB-plug charger as my travel charger with integrated cable. Both problems solved. (Of course, I generally don't use a travel charger anyway — my netbook makes a perfectly useful USB power source, and I always have a mini-USB cable in my bag.)

The other problem is that there is a bright blue LED at the bottom of a little hole (which seems to be intended to showcase the clear plastic stylus which came with the dock, which is funny because the HTC Magic screen is capacitive and thus doesn't work with a stylus). Fortunately the hole is also the right size for a cotton swab to be stuffed in, and failing that there's plenty of other ways to plug the hole (putty, electrical tape, etc.).