2G iPod touch to have Bluetooth capability unlocked by iPhone OS 3.0
By Nilay Patel 
posted March 17th 2009 2:57PM
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Hmm. So does this mean I would be able to use my bluetooth Jaybird headphones with an iPod Touch without an adapter?
I just wish it would come out already. I have been waiting for it since this article came out. Isn't it Summer already? It's June, even.
BT would make a great device near perfect. I have an unlimited data plan on my cell phone. If I could tether my iTouch to it, i wouldn't have to keep gonig back and forth between the two. My Palm Treo 700-wx is pretty crappy by modern standards as it is. Now that I'm used to Safari on the iTouch, I hate to even surf on my low res, non-MultiTouch PDA-phone. I just use it for google maps from time to time. I was thinking of buying a new Palm Windows Mobile device, but with BT on the iTouch, I could live without it.
Really, the only think I'd really like to have at this point is GPS functionality. My phone doesn't have it, and the iTouch doesn't either, but gMaps works well enough over EV-DO to find you....
Ahh, BT, I'm getting psyched just thinking about it.
Does iPhone OS 3.0 allows Bluetooth PAN in order to connect to Internet between Bluetooth capable phone ?
If not, this update isn't interesting for me.
what dont you all just shut the hell up and quit complaing about the9.95 you gotta pay and just wait for sum leeto jeeto hacker d00d to put it up for free like evrything else you gotta pay for? guess what i got 3.0 already on my ipod touch beta5 and its pretty freaking sweet. so STFU!!!!!!!!!!
hey oynxboard it comes out he 17th wednesday of next week!!!!!!!!!!
Your all being silly. Nowhere have I read what the bluetooth functionality of this release will be except for the headset. If you all think your going to tether an itouch to your phone, then the update will require the nessecary bluetooth profiles, which i would bet that apple wont include to prevent the iphone from losing sales (they get more money from them I believe). Bluetooth DUN or a Bluetooth PAN profile are required to tether, and I would most certainly run out and buy an itouch if they are there because it is a wonderful mobile browser, but thats alI would use it for. I have ran into this problem before with a nokia N810 internet tablet and my WinMo phone. The n810 only supported DUN (dial up networking) and my phone only supported PAN (personal area networking) and was quite mad until I found a PAN profile for the nokia. Oh, and dont think bluetooth tethering is free. You have to pay an addtional fee to tether your phone to anything. The bluetooth method is one the phone carriers can control a little better and prevent you from doing if you dont have that type of service. The adhoc method (noted above as WIFIROUTER or something like that) is a 20 dollar piece of software that lets you get around the 20-30 dollars or so a month additional you'd have to pay on your phone to legitmaly tether, but if they catch you they will drop you and charge you the early termination fee (its in all terms of service i believe). (youd probably would use any data that you couldnt use legimtaly on a WinMO device anyway so they probably could claim you were doing it, but be aware)
The 10 dollar upgrade fee is a little disapointing, but all you whiners wouldnt be crying if it was a 10 dollar hardware piece that you could add. The functionality wasnt advertised, never said to be there, so the fact that it was there but disabled shouldnt have had any impact on your decision to buy the device.