For $62 you can now stream music from your iPhone/iPod to your A2DP enabled headphones. Hmm. Me thinks you should save that money and put it towards a high quality set of over-the-ears or in-ear buds.
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Can someone make an A2DP app for the app store, or is the bluetooth chip not able to do that apple put inside the iPhone. I’m just saying isn’t it our choice if we want to run a battery down to nothing. Why does apple care so much what I do with my battery??
It wont work with an app. The bluetooth chip needs the A2DP profile built into either it or into the firmware. Im not exactly sure how that works.
Why oh why do all the tech blogs keep talking about this? Motorola and Sony have had dongles like this out for a couple of years now. I personally have been using the Sony one for over a year and it works flawlessly with my iPhone. This is nothing new!
“Me thinks you should save that money and put it towards a high quality set of over-the-ears or in-ear buds.”
Yeah. If one could actually buy a good pair of in-ear buds for $62. The ones I’ve looked at offer comparatively little value, and cost well over $100. Most are over-rated $15 Sony equivalents.
@John
“put it towards”
You’ll need to spend twice that to get a decent pair of in-ears.
OK, I know Iam behind on this post but this iphone, bluetooth A2DP transmitter issue is driving me crazy.
I have the iPhone 3G and the Motorla S9 headset. Needless to say I was appalled to find out this doesn’t work for stereo music listening out of the box. Whatever bonehead is responsible for that absurd decision should be fired immediately. Whatever, I am over it, and decided to shell out the extra money for one of the various bluetooth transmitters. I started with the Sony. I could get it to pair for phone calls and then for stereo, but I could never get it to answer a call when music was playing. I read numerous blog posts and found a number who laid out specific steps, saying it worked great, but they all offered slightly different steps. I wonder if they left out the part where you have to lean your head just right, bend over and kiss your a__ right when you turn on/off this or that to get the iphone to do with an extra $60 device what it should have done out of the box.
I tried them all: pair the headset to the phone first, turn off the BT on the phone and then pair to the transmitter. Others said pair to the transmitter then turn it off and pair to the phone. I could never get it to play stereo music and and answer a call from the headset.
Then I tried the motorola transmitter. Its instructions indicated this would work. I followed the steps exactly and this time the headset would pair to the transmitter and yet the music would never play through the headset, it just played through the iphone speaker while it did respond to the headset controls (play, pause, etc.).
There was even a video of a guy showing it working with an iCombi transmitter: http://bluetoothlounge.com/reviews/motorola-s9-paired-with-iphone-through-icombi-a2dp-adapter/
Unfortunately, it seems that iCombi isn’t around anymore, or their web site shows press releases from 2005, Amazon shows their devces out of stock and no date for when they will e available, an Oakley no longer lists their products on their web site.
This is just absurd, I have spent hours on this. I feel like a monkey randomly trying minute variations on the process, turn this one on first, then this off next, then pair this, disable that, unpair this, etc. etc. Somehow the commercials showing the cool apple guy and nerd PC guy don’t seem to talk about any of this.
Does anyone know how to make this work before I take hostages at Apple?
I purchased a Icombi AP21 and it was delivered within the week. I ordered it the day after Christmas this year of 2008. Check out the website. It works.
http://www.mwsbike.com/icombi