http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Jul 2nd 2006 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/
I run the headphone cord behind my back, so I don't get tangled with it. but hey what do I know, ]]>Jul 2nd 2006 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Jul 2nd 2006 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Jul 2nd 2006 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Jul 2nd 2006 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Jun 9th 2007 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/static telephone quality?

You have no clue do you? Why don't you try listening to A2DP headphones before you judge. They sound pretty darn good.

Plus, most of you are missing the point completely. Once you have an A2DP enabled source, you can feed it to any A2DP enabled output device. Imagine getting in to your car and you get seamless hand-off from your iPod to your car stereo. Imagine letting your friends sitting near by listen to a track quick without having to swap plugs around. Imagine multiple headphones connected to a single iPod without splitters.]]>Jul 2nd 2006 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/
Talk time is limited to 4 hours and (we assume) is the listening time as well - meaning, your headphone batteries are gonna die before your iPod.

Ryan, don't you think this is a significant issue that needs to be addressed before these take a major share of the market? I agree, the wireless connection in a car would be great, but it will also be some time before BT is standard in Ford, GM, Toyota, etc. Not everyone drives a BMW, M-B, Audi, etc.]]>Jul 2nd 2006 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Jul 2nd 2006 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Jul 3rd 2006 1:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/I've had this stereo bt headset for months, and the quality is astounding. the range is awesome. and i've never had any problems with it. it hooks to my ipod via an audio dongle, which i'd prefer to lose. if this jabra could pair with my headset ( which has A2DP obviously, and AVRCP) i'd be sold
check it out
http://plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/products/cat1150057/cat1150057/prod29780013]]>Jul 3rd 2006 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Jul 3rd 2006 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/
That sounds exciting. Bluetooth headphone? Not so interesting.]]>Jul 3rd 2006 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/
You'd actually wear one of those outside? You look like an airtraffic controller?!?!?

Ryan said:
"Plus, most of you are missing the point completely. Once you have an A2DP enabled source, you can feed it to any A2DP enabled output device. Imagine getting in to your car and you get seamless hand-off from your iPod to your car stereo."

I think I would have my iPod charging in my car while I play music. And it's awfully lot of money to pay for that little conveniences. I've always said Bluetooth is a 3rd party add-on. Not something Apple should do. The market for use like this is so small it's not worth creating a new device or adding this to all High end iPods.

"Imagine letting your friends sitting near by listen to a track quick without having to swap plugs around. Imagine multiple headphones connected to a single iPod without splitters.""

How many time does this really happen? By the time you get your friend to hear the song you were listening to, it will be over. You have to put it in discovery mode, wait for it to handshake. become on the trusted devices. After listening to your song, they have to reestablish connection to their iPod.

And we all know that Bluetooth is the most reliable device connection...

If you are going to go thru all that trouble, might as well, give them the iPod so they can listen.

And think about the cost of doing this? You have assume that all of the people in the room will have bluetooth headphones. At $250 a pop, not likely, people balk at $99 headphone which are better sounding than any of these BT headphone, so people will pay for that?

Sorry to burst your bubbles, but this is waste of resources for Apple as far as I can see. As long as Jabbra feels they can make money from this it's okay, but if Apple tries to push this BT stuff on rest of us, forget it, I wouldn't pay more money for it.
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my bluetooth headset pairs with my phone, my computer, my mp3 player, AND my ps3, seamlessly, and i am not tethered to any of them, seamlessly switch from gaming on your ps3, to chatting on your IM (MSN for me) and answer a phone call, head out the door, and start jamming on your i-pod, all from 1 headset. no cord that wont let you turn your head, and whoever says the quality is bad, is just speculating.
the quality is fine, i have no trouble, i love bluetooth. i use bluetooth keyboard/mouse too, which lest me sit far away and type... WAY better reception than a laser wireless setup. i want everything to be bluetooth.

please stop telling everyone bluetooth's "faults" when you clearly dont even own a bluetooth device, and dont really belong in the topic.]]>Apr 5th 2007 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/What type of BT headphones do you have?
I am trying to find some BT headphones that will connect with my mac, ipod, and cell.]]>May 20th 2007 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Aug 20th 2007 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/May 28th 2007 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Aug 20th 2007 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Aug 2nd 2007 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/
I have a bluetooth keyboard/mouse & wireless internet. Not counting the iPod I have ONE cable plugged into my computer (the power cable) then the ugly white cord for the iPod. Doesn't fit the iMac...]]>Aug 16th 2007 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Aug 20th 2007 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Sep 7th 2007 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Now I am playing my MP3 on my cell! Cool man! Fantastic clarity. I can't believe the quality! The only limitation is the memory ltd to 2 Gb in the cell. So, now I need a BT for my iPod, which can handle 60 GB of stuff, so I can listen to anything I have stored.
See, there is use for BT and BT headphones :)
Liberty! I can call someone by merely saying the name of the person. We are getting there :)]]>Oct 15th 2007 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/]]>Nov 2nd 2007 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/quality BT audio. I have an iPod that I use exclusively for listening
to talk radio podcasts, and I could care less about high-quality
stereo audio delivered over A2DP - I'd just like to listen to it using
my plain old Bluetooth 2.0 headset. Unfortunately, almost all of the
products and information online is oriented toward A2DP support.

I'm wondering if this BT transmitter (or others like it)
that plug into a 3.5mm headphone jack or iPod dock connector can
deliver audio from my iPod to a standard, non-A2DP Bluetooth 2.0 headset.

]]>Dec 11th 2007 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Jan 15th 2008 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Jan 24th 2008 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Bluetooth-enabled devices.
With no software required, the Serial Bluetooth Adapter is a true plug-n-play solution. All you need to do is plug in the serial adapter to serial RS-232 equipment with a DB-9 connection and enjoy the freedom of wireless Bluetooth technology. In addition, the unit features external DIP switches allowing you to easily configure the baud rate with the simple flip of a switch. It is also fully compliant with Bluetooth 1.1 specifications and supports authentication and encryption.Hurry to get bluetooth adapters from Sourcinggate.com
http://www.sourcinggate.com/Bluetooth-Bluetooth-Adapter/c11_18/index.html]]>Jun 19th 2008 2:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.wholesale-star.com/bluetooth-bluetooth-adapters-c-40_42.html]]>Jul 18th 2008 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/02/jabra-announces-ipod-bluetooth-adapter/Aug 2nd 2008 8:55AM