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Stereo Bluetooth now on your iPhone! Kinda

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:26:25 +0000

For the iPhone users in the audience who are still a little mad that Apple still hasn’t included stereo Bluetooth (also known as A2DP), you are now able to use your Bluetooth headphones with your iPhone and iPod touch, but there’s a catch (as always). You must spend $62 to get a Bluetooth adapter who’s sole purpose is to provide A2DP. Gotta love it.

The Infinixx adapter uses the standard dock connector that you can find on recent iPods, so you can also use the adapter on your iPod Touch, iPod nano, iPod Classic, iPod Video, iPod Color, and iPod Mini. While it is a Bluetooth adapter, you can’t pair your non-stereo headset with it on your iPhone to have calls through that. Their solution? Pair your headset with the iPhone and your headphones with the adapter. Now that already mediocre battery on your iPhone 3G has been dropped to five minutes. Ok, maybe not quite as drastic, but it’s definitely a significant loss.

At $62, I’d rather wait for official (if ever) A2DP support from Apple, but a pair of wired headphones do the trick just nicely.

Via [Gizmodo]

Read [Brando]

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Apple releases iTunes 7.7

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:57:49 +0000

If you haven’t heard (and really, by now you should have), Apple released this new fangled thing called the iPhone 3G. Not sure if it’s hit the major markets of if any of them have sold… Anyways, the bigger news in the digital market is that iTunes 7.7 was released, and PLEASE hold your applause.

Now then… iTunes 7.7 does offer some nice new improvements. It adds the capability to sync with your iPhone 3G along with your newly updated iPhones and iPod touches with 2.0 firmware. It also adds functionality for remote functionality on your iPhone or iPod touch that allows you to control your iTunes library anywhere in your house that you have a Wi-Fi signal. I’ve used the Remote app (along with a bunch of other iPod touch apps which I will discuss that are relevant to music) and I have to say it is, by far, the easiest app I have used. Open Remote, open iTunes on your computer, and sync. But we’ll do a review later on.

If you haven’t already, you can use Software Update to update iTunes to the latest version (on both Mac and Windows) or download the latest version from here.

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