Thank you Mark,

I should have the A3 soon. I already own an old iPad2 and I'm lurking an iPad3 just to get the little outdated power push.

Great to hear there's not a specific rubber to that last one.

Thaïs again.

Hi,

The A3 arrived today, complete with box, two cradles, power supply and papers.
I've quickly tried it with iPad1 and iPad2. Of course no app is needed, it works plug'n'play.

Two interesting things i noticed:
- there was an annoying static background noise with the iPad1. It happens it came from the internal equalization from iOS. Turning it off solve the problem.
- I though the speakers option in the general setting (for flat or speech emphasis)was linked to the Beosetup app. It is not, the settings appears as soon as the iPad is docked. I just tried it with sung music without noticing much difference but i will try it with a movie or a tv show soon.

Now the A3 is charging in order to check the battery health which i suspect to be not good at all.
And next challenge is to find an iPad3 to use it as a portable TV set.

Hope this helps… 

I have an iPad 3 in mine. I started out with an original iPad 1 but it got to where the version of iOS it ran wouldn't run Spotify and such anymore, so I found an iPad 3 on eBay.

I only had two inserts to hold the iPad as noted and the one for the iPad2/3 worked fine. My battery is pretty shot now, only works for about 10 min unplugged from the adapter, but I haven't tried replacing it which I imagine to be a futile effort.

Thank you Jeff for answering,

I will confirm all this as soon as I have an iPad 3 (just to be sure nobody else ask itself the same question again!).

Jeff wrote:

My battery is pretty shot now, only works for about 10 min unplugged from the adapter, but I haven't tried replacing it which I imagine to be a futile effort.

I suspect mine will be the same (it was sold as store demo) but i dont think it would be a futile effort to replace the battery. Unless you mean that it would be difficult to impossible on that device.
Googling it, I found pictures of spare batteries which would point to the idea that people can change it. But i also found nothing about opening it: even on Beoworld, the three threads asking about that are dead without answer, just on guy telling he removed the 3 screws (I dont even see them! 😁)

Anyway, learning how to open it would be great, if somebody knows…

I admit I haven't really tried on the battery, but if there are options to replace I'll be interested. I guess I should look at the thing and see if I an figure out how to take it apart. Always an issue with modern products, so many seem designed to never be disassembled, you have to break them to take them apart and hope you can do it in a way that you can stick it back together.

Off to google batteries I guess. Hmmmm.

Here you go. It is very easy to open the A3 to change the battery

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