Motorola introducing a new stereo Bluetooth headset
posted Jan 7th 2005 12:10AM
Motorola is hitting both music and Bluetooth hard at CES in addition to jackets and hats with Bluetooth stereo
speakers, they're also talking up the HT820, a stereo Bluetooth headset. Since there are no pictures yet (and the CES
show floor is closed for the night) we aren't quite sure exactly how it works, but Motorola claims it can connect to a
music player and a phone separately and automatically pause the music when a phone call is answered on the headset. We
would suspect they mean mute, not pause the music, however the headset has controls for play and pause as well as call
controls according to Moto. Maybe those controls only work with Bluetooth enabled music players. For the wired players,
there is a headset jack built into the HT820 or Motorola will also offer the DC800, which takes audio out and streams
it over Bluetooth.
[via Geekzone]
One word: iTunes.
why would you suspect they mean mute, not pause?
If i'm listening to some music, or an audiobook, on my iPod and i get a phone call i don't just turn the volume down i pause the song. So it seems likely that this device would do the same...
"Pause" probably relates to music being listened to on bluetooth enabled phones that also include the ability to play mp3's. Two phones off the top of my head with this capability would be the iPAQ 6315, and the Motorola E398.
How does itunes have anything to do with this whatsoever?