Charging iPhone with iPod charger

I have an AC adapter/charger that came with my iPod mini a couple years ago. Can I use this to charge the iPhone? It charges my iPod mini, nano, and 5G ipod without any trouble. Conversely, can I use the charger that came with the iphone to charge other iPods?
Any help is appreciated.

Although they are 30 pin connectors, they are not using the same pins for the same features. I read that the iphone will work on a Bose Sounddock so I plugged it into an older ipod 30 pin dock hooked up to speakers through the line out and it would not play the music through my speakers. If I used the iPhone dock it worked just fine. My conclusion is that at some point (When Video iPods came out I think) Apple switched the functions of some of the pins in the 30 pin connector. I don't know why it charges slow, but I do know that since they are 30 pin connectors we should not assume they will work the same for an ipod and iphone.

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