Strange but useful variation on the multi adapter

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260452984209

So it has a 3.5mm headphone and female mini-usb port.  So you can listen to your Impression with regular headphones while charging with a generic USB charger.... odd combo, but cool.  Of course now all 4 cell phones in my house are now 20-pin Samsung devices!

What'd be super cool is to have a 20-pin male to a combo of 20-pin femail,  3.5mm and mini-usb 

I would suspect that it's both... unless the manufacturer of this device was as stupid as Samsung was before they realized that you can charge AND do data in the same cable.

...and, for that matter, who the *&$#@!  needs 20 pins?  Even HPC block-based, network file systems (so we're talking multiple gigabytes/second) run over serial Layer 1.  This is what makes USB so great.  OK so you want audio and power and data?  Power and data wrapped up in USB alone... 5 pins.  And headset audio?  4 pins.  What are the other 11 pins for? Porn?!

The iGo USB/adapter/chargers that Radioshack pushes on people can only be used for charging, not for data. Of course, the Radioshack employees don't know that, so they keep selling them to people.

I had to ream out the guy that sold it to me because I specifically asked him if it would do so, and he 'promised' it would.

OK here's one that specifically says it is for audio + charging with USB.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260452984209&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT


Though, what I really want is headset + charging.   

While you were looking, did you happen to come across a 3.5mm and a samsung 20 pin instead of a mini usb one? 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I just peed a little