Although the original iPhone and iPhone 3G both support bluetooth headsets, Apple’s “best iPod ever” mysteriously lacks the ability to play music over stereo bluetooth devices. And while Apple could potentially add this feature via software update, it doesn’t seem to be at the top of their list. If you’re tired of waiting for Apple and want to enjoy the sweet sound of wireless tunes, the Infinixx AP23 has you covered.
Written by Michael Johnston on July 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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Have you recently gotten a ticket for breaking the Hands Free Law recently? You might be in luck, because hat ticket just might have a silver lining, so to speak. Both Aliph and Plantronics have announced promotional offers to people who have recently been ticketed for talking on their cellphone when they should’ve been paying attention to the road. Aliph is offering $20 off of one of their lovely Jawbone 2 Bluetooth headsets, while Headsets.com is offering a Plantronics Discovery 925 headset ($149l.95 retail) for free to the first 734 applicants that have been ticketed.
[via BoingBoing, Headsets.com]
Written by Edward Kirk on July 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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After the iPhone 3G went on sale this Friday, Apple dropped the price of its über stylish Bluetooth Headset. Previously priced at a whopping $130, the headset has dropped $30 in price to a round $100 even. Why the drop in price? It wasn’t because Apple finally realized it was over-priced. Instead, they’ve decided to remove that oh-so-useful dual-dock from the package. They do include the “travel cable” though, which charges and pairs the headset.
If you would like to purchase the dock separately, it’s available from Apple for - get this - $49.
Written by Michael Johnston on July 14th, 2008 with no comments.
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While I can’t take credit for the idea (wish I had thought of it), I have never heard anyone mention it before as it relates to the iPhone. I was reading a post on engadget.com about a new phone (I don’t even remember which one it was), but it had a feature that would be KILLER on the 3g version of the iPhone.
Here goes: Most of us that travel with iPhones also travel with laptops. One feature that we hope for on the 3g iPhone is to be able to use it as a wireless modem (tethering/DUN) via Bluetooth. However, what would even be sweeter is having the iPhone itself become a Wi-Fi access point. Having a 3g iPhone means that we’ll have the potential for significantly faster data access than what we now see over EDGE. Since the iPhone already has Wi-Fi built-in, why not just tap a button, set a password and have it broadcast a Wi-Fi access signal that you could tap into with your laptop and surf?
Of course there’s the whole battery life thing and I have no idea if the Wi-Fi radio uses more power than the Bluetooth radio, but it would be pretty sweet nonetheless. It would also allow multiple devices to share the 3g internet connection simultaneously whereas Bluetooth would not.
Either way, the next version of the iPhone should definitely have either Bluetooth or Wi-Fi internet sharing for your laptop! Steve would probably argue that the iPhone is so good that you shouldn’t need to connect to the internet from your laptop and maybe with all the new corporate support (MS Exchange support, VPN access, etc.) that’s coming in iPhone 2.0 he’s right. I can’t wait til June to find out!
You may remember that I have a running list of features that I would like to see come to the iPhone (some of which have either been addressed in recent updates or have been announced for the 2.0 software update due in June) and all of which could be implemented via software updates or 3rd parties. So while were on the subject of the 3g iPhone, here are my:
Top 10 iPhone 2.0.1 Feature Requests
- Flash Player! - We can’t keep pretending that we don’t need this! With a faster iPhone, there’s no excuse
- Video Recording - No reason not to have this either
- MMS Messaging - Can we send some picts and video directly to our buddies without using email?
- Cut/Copy/Paste - Duh!
- Contact Search - I’m sure I’m not the only one with hundreds of contacts
- Note Syncing - No reason not to have this
- Audio Recording - Taking notes/Voice recorder would be a very popular feature
- Email Anything - The ability to email anything that’s on the device, ie: contacts, voicemail messages, maps, etc.
- Voice Dialing - Lesser phones have this basic feature
- Consolidated Email Box (option) - I have 5 email accounts on my iPhone - my screen is starting to wear out in the spot that I have to keep hitting the Back button on.
Written by terrywhite on April 4th, 2008 with no comments.
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Very interesting. I can pair my iPhone running the new 1.1.4 firmware with my Mac over Bluetooth, but it can’t find any services. I don’t think this worked with earlier firmware. I also tried iSync and BluePhoneElite and they threw the same message. I really hope this means that wireless sync is coming soon. Tethering [...]
Written by eas on February 27th, 2008 with no comments.
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