Apple unveils Bluetooth headset, new headphones for iPhone

So Apple couldn't release its iPhone without also unveiling a new Bluetooth headset and a tweak to their iconic headphones now, could they? Keeping in line with Apple's minimalist design ethos, the Bluetooth headset appears from the side as a simple, thin, 2001-esque, black slab. It only has one button (on the top) and is apparently "incredibly small." Apple has also unveiled a new set of stereo headphones that accommodates the iPhone's cellular functionality. Similar to wire based hands-free kits, it has a small white box halfway up the wire with an integrated microphone and a "squeeze" switch for answering and hanging-up calls. Check out the break for a shot of the hands-free Apple headphones.

[Hasan @ Jan 9th 2007 2:14PM]

lol, where is the rest of the headset?

[mini.boss @ Jan 9th 2007 2:15PM]

Any mention on if the BT headset will work with any other phone? I'd buy it. (But then again it only has one button so no volume control???)

[pwfletcher @ Jan 9th 2007 2:17PM]

Check this out:

They didn't announce it @ the ketnote!!!!!

http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/

[John W @ Jan 9th 2007 2:18PM]

I hope the iPhone has an A2DP bluetooth profile so I can use my bluetooth headphones with it.

[pwfletcher @ Jan 9th 2007 2:32PM]

Apple just upgraded my MacBook Pro!!!!

"These Mac computers support 802.11n in the new AirPort Extreme Base Station using the included enabler software:

iMac with Intel Core 2 Duo (except 17-inch, 1.83GHz iMac)
MacBook with Intel Core 2 Duo
MacBook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo
Mac Pro with AirPort Extreme card option"

[Salesmunn @ Jan 9th 2007 2:47PM]

Jesus. Does that thing come with a neck implant too!? That model is horrifically giraffe-like.

[Ray-- @ Jan 9th 2007 3:11PM]

all this high-tech junk and they release new "wired" headphones... uhhhh wired?

[E @ Jan 9th 2007 3:16PM]

Ugly. Looks like half a clothes-pin hanging out of her ear.

[Marian @ Jan 10th 2007 3:52AM]

Ugly? Have you seen the bluetooth headsets that people are wearing in grocery stores, for example? Those are ugly!!!

[oddsends @ Jan 9th 2007 3:28PM]

"one button" very familiar

But it is uuuuggly ;(
(clothes pin indeed!)

[Dan @ Jan 9th 2007 4:41PM]

I'm surprised at teh design of the bluetooth headset. I thought it would be more Apple-esque and... well, white.

[Walt French @ Jan 9th 2007 6:08PM]

> That model is horrifically giraffe-like.

EXCELLENT point, Salesmunn. Why not stick a pencil in your ear & send in a way-more-beautiful picture for comparison?

[Z @ Jan 10th 2007 9:02AM]

That is one UGLY earpiece. Uninspiring design and certainly not worthy of the Apple name. A matte-black french fry or pastel stick. Yippee. Blech.

[Yubal @ Jan 10th 2007 2:50PM]

the model's neck is long, so the earpice looks small in comparison. I bet she ain't that pettite, more like 6 feet.

[Get used to it @ Jan 11th 2007 3:06AM]

Just like all of the other Apple products, this will work flawlessly as intended. All you losers and tools commenting on its design, well....you just keep that big, bright plantronics implanted into the side of your head while you bang on your PC, wondering why it just crapped its spleen for the 10th time today.

Apple sets the bar.......every time. Don't hate the player....hate the game.

[jman @ Jan 11th 2007 11:23AM]

that bluetooth thing looks so ugly, its like something that computer makers thought looked cool in the 90s. blech! incidentally does it come with the phone?

[Get used to it @ Jan 11th 2007 2:20PM]

Just like all of the other Apple products, this will work flawlessly as intended. All you losers and tools commenting on its design, well....you just keep that big, bright plantronics implanted into the side of your head while you bang on your PC, wondering why it just crapped its spleen for the 10th time today.

Apple sets the bar.......every time. Don't hate the player....hate the game.

[Luu @ Jan 13th 2007 11:43PM]

BlueTooth headsets are sooo freaking dorky, but this one...I'll wear. Very stylish and artsy. Minimalist!

When I see someone wearing a dorky BT headset, I think LOSER!

[nolatrash @ Jan 16th 2007 5:00PM]

Apparently not even apple can pull off a real bluetooth headset - how about wireless stereo, noise cancelling & cellphone (or for all you convinced that Jobs is the messiah, iphone)compatable head set. How about true voice to text w/ their OS so I can actually acomplish something with these 'toys' There is nothing new out of apple again. just more of the same form factor and features that have been around for 5 years and the assertion that they are better.

[Tenney Naumer @ Jan 16th 2007 10:15PM]

Well, you can think "loser" all you want, but I think "hearing impaired," which, by the way, I am. So far, I have not been able to cannot afford a Bluetooth-enabled cellular phone, but when I can, I will be sure to get an iPhone!

[jj91709 @ Jan 18th 2007 2:30PM]

Good Lord, look at the size of that woman's neck!

I'm unimpressed. Maybe Apple's putting this pic out ahead of time but they plan to wow us with something different. Can only hope.

And really, we need wireless stereo headphones with a2dp protocol that do not, I repeat, DO NOT have wires, unlike my Sony Stereo Bluetooth headphones which have 2 wires. I feel ridiculous. My wife says 'you spent $100 on wireless headphones and they gave you one with 2 wires.' Who's the idiot here?

[RaiderX @ Jan 24th 2007 3:31PM]

o_O WTH IS THAT!? xD That thing looks stupid. Its like just a block sticking in your ear. They should round it out more or something, fit it more ot the ear shape.