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Buzz Out Loud Lounge: iPod with integrated Bluetooth headset?
iPod with integrated Bluetooth headset?
by TheComplex - 10/2/06 11:05 AMiPhone is a stupid idea. Didn’t anybody notice what happened to the Motorola rokr?
Here’s a thought: Why not integrate a Bluetooth headset in the iPod? Simple, just carry your phone around and use your iPod as a Bluetooth headset.
Now, imagine the possibility. Auto pause your music or video for incoming calls and answer calls, read your text message on-screen. Heck, while they’re at it: just use iTunes to manage contacts etc for your mobile phone.
A minor adjustment with major possibilities unlike an iPhone (see Rokr).
Next: iMobile (Apple's mobile platform)
Battery Problem
by mattrankin - 10/2/06 7:43 PM In reply to: iPod with integrated Bluetooth headset? by TheComplexI think that is a much better idea however the ipod will beed to be bigger to support the new hardware and its battery life will suffer.
Considering the battery life of ipods can be shcokingt at present, after adding phone and bluetooth capabilities, the battery won't last very long
what's the point?
by theblenderkid - 10/2/06 9:40 PM In reply to: iPod with integrated Bluetooth headset? by TheComplexIf you have an iPod with a bluetooth headset, then what use would headphones be? the quality would be total crap.
And using an ipod as a headset would be very hard to rig up. first: bluetooth phone. second: bluetooth ipod with all the software written so that it synchs all new incoming stuff to your ipod. plus, you'd have to take something out of your pocket to look at, anyway, if you'll pressing buttons.
Plus, all the features you're describing here are exactly what I want in an iPhone. That's probably what it's going to be: a totally integrated system. instead of carrying around two objects, like i do, You'd only need one.
the features you listed make an iPhone sound like an even better idea to me.
1mbps
by crampy20 - 10/3/06 5:28 AM In reply to: what's the point? by theblenderkidBluetooth operates at a maximum of 1mbps, note that is theoretical maximum, in the same way a wireless card operates at '54 mbps' but you get actual transfer speeds of about 400 kbps, in the same way that normal broadband is 2mbps put your top download speed is 300kbps, and how the playstation 2 can theoreticly handle 66 million polygons per second but in most games there are only about 8-15million at most.
Even so, I have experienced 180kbps transfer over bluetooth, now with a 120 kbps song that is perfectly sufficent. But you must remember the normal consumer can't tell the difference between mobile phone ringtones to iTS songs to CD audio tracks, and the average consumer would be happy.
I believe that the argument for and agaisnt the iPhone that you place is weak. Comparing a phone, that we dont actually have any sales figures for, to the most popular MP3 device, by a HUGE margin, in the world, is rather poor. Even if the iPhone had success, it wouldn't see a market share bigger than maybe 10%, if that (think about how many people have a phone and how many have an iPod). Plus you are comparing a frankly **** device (that Steve Jobs can't use) to a well designed easy-to-use device that has mass appeal. I can't say I like the ROKR design, but anything made by Apple, will be far better than that phone, and by the very fact that it is apple (iPhone + iTunes) should guarentee success.
Or..
by TheComplex - 10/3/06 11:44 AM In reply to: 1mbps by crampy20Make the earbuds completely wireless and integrate them in there. The iPod just the conduit for the calls from your mobile.
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Indepth iPod Bluetooth
by TheComplex - 10/3/06 11:40 AM In reply to: what's the point? by theblenderkidthen what use would headphones be? making and receiving calls
1) The earbuds need a mic along the cords somewhere
2) Buetooth would be in the iPod
3) hala...handfree calling with your iPod
I'm using a bluetooth headset with my mda right now and it works great!
Only drawback: If I what to see who's calling i've look at my mda. With the iPod it would be the same yet I could just had to look at the screen of the iPod. ..leave my phone in my pocket, purse, cars (10 feet range) or kitchen.
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