RIM's BlackBerry Remote Stereo Gateway on sale for $80

BlackBerry owners looking to wirelessly connect to a home stereo or portable speakers can finally pick up that Remote Stereo Gateway we first saw sneaking through the FCC at the end of last month, for $80 from Tessco. The matchbook-size dongle receives a Bluetooth signal from your compatible 'Berry, and then pushes the audio out a standard 1/8-inch jack. According to the retail description, the device is also capable of streaming tunes from your stereo to a pair of Bluetooth headphones, which would mean that we are in fact looking at an A2DP profile here and thus likely compatibility with non-BlackBerry devices. Anyone wanna do us a solid and test this out with a WinMo phone?

[Via The Boy Genius Report]

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 1:10PM]

WBT-210 from Jensen. I purchased 10 of these on eBay for $5 each. It has A2DP as well has a built in mic for handsfree calls. Works fine with WM devices for A2DP.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 1:13PM]

Wow. Blackberry>iPhone for music. Hello Steve Jobs?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 1:24PM]

LOL. Yeah it's great when people at the gym are all perplexed that your non Iphone phone can use Bluetooth stereo headsets when their top of the line music playing phone can't.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 1:26PM]

YEAH. Wow. Too bad most people who use blackberrys don't read this stuff.

i'd venture to say most readers are 60% iphone users or something crazy like that.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 1:30PM]

Always have been. That's why Engadget does so well with mobile stories.

[MeanSpyvie Posted Feb 13th 2008 2:03PM]

LOL

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 7:18PM]

I read this everyday and I have a blackberry, had one for a long time. Yes I would still take my 8830 over a iPhone any day, not because I hate apple, cus its a better all around phone.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 1:40PM]

Only to tell people that I'm using for six month now the stereo bluetooth headphones Plantronics Pulsar 260, which has a buit-in microphone and can be used at home for the same purpous of this little box. So that means you have 2in1 for less money. costs from 42 dollars, that is half price

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 1:49PM]

Your Plantronics Pulsar headset has a stereo output jack to hook up to your home stereo system? Man my Rokr S9's only have the stereo headset handsfree mic and mp3 controls part.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 1:57PM]

YEs it does. check this http://www.wirelessground.com/plpu260stblh.html

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 2:25PM]

about $55 at newegg and amazon... with shipping incld

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 7:46PM]

Does your Plantronics jobby have a 3.5mm jack, or a 2.5mm? Do you need to use an adapter to use standard headphones/headphone jack?
I'd love to not spend $80 and bluetooth equip my car stereo...

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 2:55PM]

Yup. I got Pulsar 260 also. Love it!

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 2:43PM]

Yeah, but I bet yours doesn't double to also stream from a non-bluetooth source to bluetooth headsets. In otherwords, the line-in becomes a line-out. Dual use. Now that's cool. I wouldn't mind being able to use my bluetooth headset with my stereo system for wireless internet streaming music around the house.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 2:51PM]

That's definitely a nice find Evandro. Actually this could be a solution for people wanting to use their bluetooth device with their car stereo.

Mike it uses a 2.5 mm jack according to the diagram.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 2:23PM]

Man if this could work for my Samsung Blackjack, I'd love to hook this up to my car stereo system. I keep my music loud, so it would be great if it could cut out when someone calls me so I could hear the phone. Does anyone else know of a device that could work for this...thats cheaper?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 2:56PM]

Just ordered mine @ http://www.gotthelatest.com for $64.95. They are quoting a 1 week lead time. I'll keep you posted.
Here is the direct link.
http://www.gotthelatest.com/bluetooth-acessories-Item-ASY-16130-001.html

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 3:21PM]

Loot it is a 2.5mm but it brings a cable to make it 3.5 mm. I mean it comes with a cable that has 2.5 output to 3.5 so u can plug to a auxiliar in with no extra hassle

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 3:27PM]

can the pulsar be used while its plugged in and charging?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 3:33PM]

The blackberry media player is completely lame and I can't imagine using it as any type of audio device. But this would be great for the other uses (but you can find cheaper products). RIM should spend less R&D on these devices and more time on writing a usable media application.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 8:03PM]

Stew, you need flipside:
http://flipside.fm

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 4:07PM]

So what exactly does this do turn a regular bluetooth signal into a stereo so you can plug your headphones into? so its just for phones without a2dp?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 4:14PM]

YEs u can use ur pulsar while it is charging. plus u can chage it through USB on the computer. comes with a wall carger also

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2008 10:03PM]

I've had a Logitech Music Anywhere (I think it's called) stereo adapter for over a year now that does this. It works great with A2DP on my WM6 Dash. It is really nice to walk into my room hit play on the reciever (or the ir remote) play music, switch tracks, etc. over my stereo speakers from my Dash all without even touching the Dash in my pocket.

So these things are nice and useful I'd like a remote though (like my logitech has) and the price seems a bit high for me. I bought mine on Woot over a year ago for $35 though, so I have no idea what they actually cost.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 14th 2008 1:00PM]

i ordered this AVRCP/A2DP compliant BT 2.0 trasmitter from dealextreme http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8422

$25 + Free shipping.. yet to get it .. will let you know if it works alright...