I've seen the clock radios in different resorts, and for the life of me, of could never figure why the company that makes them puts the dock on the top... I would never use it, plug my 400.00 iPhone or expensive iPod in a dust, crumb infested connector... You all go ahead and use them but if I really had to, I'd bring a cable extension ... Rather screw up a cable extension plug then the port on my iPod or iPhone ..