iPhone 5 Dock Smaller

A smaller dock connector means
the iPhone 5 will be incompatible
with accessories made for Apple
products going back nearly 10 years.

Apple is preparing to ditch the thirty-pin
connector it has used since the early
days of its iPod media player. The
iPhone 5 will instead ship with a
smaller dock connector containing 19
pins. The design change, long
rumored for the new iPhone, means
that the iPhone 5 will be incompatible
with the bulk of existing iPhone
accessories.
Why the change ? According to
sources cited by Reuters, the dock
switcheroo is meant "to make room
for the earphone moving to the
bottom." Souce: InformationWeek