What Apple’s new Lightning dock connector means for you
The new connector in all the new iPods and the iPhone 5 is called Lightning (like Thunderbolt, get it?). It's an 8-pin connector, which means it's much smaller than the 30-pin connector Apple's been using since it ditched FireWire almost 10 years ago.
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