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CeBIT 2005: Bluetooth Headphones for the iPod
comment: 12 | Monday, March 14 (2005) 02:16PM | Posted by Austin Vaughan

Airlogic had their new product on display, the iCombi AP11, a bluetooth transmitter designed specifically for the iPod. It plugs into the headphone port and taps the iPod's own battery for power. The AP11 can stream music to the AH10, a set of wearable headphones with a built-in bluetooth reciever. On one side of the headphones you have a power button and on the other you have basic playback and volume controls. They work together automatically so there's no software to configure. Not available yet, but soon...

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Hyper_Noodle

Comments: 226
Mar 14 (2005) 02:18PM  

Being that I have an M3 (what with all the wire for the remote already), I was wondering at one point about whether or not wireless headphones would be a good investment. Does anybody know anything about the losses associated with using wireless headphones, if current technology on wireless sound just as good as wried, etc...




IpodH8R

Comments: 53
Mar 14 (2005) 02:27PM  

I think the bluetooth wireless is relatively new in the realm of wireless technology (For music, that is). But im not too sure...




Morphling

Comments: 211
Mar 14 (2005) 02:31PM  

no they won't sound anywhere near as good as regular headphones, but of course it depends what kind of headphones you have right now, stock buds will sound like utter shit no matter what, save a few like the karma.




musicman

Comments: 336
Mar 14 (2005) 02:31PM  

Remember that BT is digital, unlike the FM transmitter/headphones you may have tried in the past; i.e. the BT transmitter will encode and then transmit, the headphones will decode then amplify. It must be a BT 2 implementation as I don't think there is enough bandwidth in BT 1.0 or 1.1




Hyper_Noodle

Comments: 226
Mar 14 (2005) 02:47PM  

I definately don't use stock buds. I don't like buds in general. I have a pair of Sony MDR-V300s right now that I've been using for a year or so.




scottder

Comments: 185
Mar 14 (2005) 03:50PM  

Karma has MX300's...not much better than stock junk IMHO.




Morphling

Comments: 211
Mar 14 (2005) 06:26PM  

Music man
it's still not going to sound anywhere near wired headphones




mmss99

Comments: 103
Mar 14 (2005) 09:06PM  

well dos it have good sound quality wiht da blue tooth?




musicman

Comments: 336
Mar 15 (2005) 03:36AM  

If you say so Morphling




markymark

Comments: 1
Mar 15 (2005) 07:35PM  

anybody know if I can sync my pod using that blue teeth stuff??




peziswonderful

Comments: 42
Mar 15 (2005) 08:03PM  

how does one even begin to answer a question like that?





Steve

Comments: 1197
Mar 16 (2005) 03:15AM  

So you have another battery to worry about, big deal. Low-level radiation bathing your brain for hours? It's probably GOOD for you! And it's DIGITAL so there's no loss of quality! BT is gonna be big - real big - - any day now.




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