CSR proposes Apple use its chips for wireless iPod headphones

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  • Reply 21 of 52
    ragexragex Posts: 126member
    That's good. I have the logitech bluetooth headphones for the iPod, but I would love to see Apple intergrate some form of wireless technology in, granted battery life does not suffer. Maybe the upcoming wireless usb standard being developed.
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  • Reply 22 of 52
    Let's get crazy....



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  • Reply 23 of 52
    melgrossmelgross Posts: 33,661member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by European guy

    Let's get crazy....







    Uh yeah. I think we're starting to overflow our cups.



    Welll, why not 3D projected in space in front or above?
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  • Reply 24 of 52
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BWhaler

    Well, announcing to the world that you are trying to do business with Apple and leaking what a possible product feature will be, is an absolute GUARANTEE that you either a) are not doing any business with Apple whatsoever, and b) you never will.



    I suspect this is just some idiot CEO's attempt to drum up some business from Apple's competitors. Leak you tried to sell to Apple which gets Apple's competitors to call you.



    This is just a sleazy sales technique. Nothing more.






    You are so absolutely right. Cigar for you sir.



    I can even picture Steve's face when he read this news item... not pretty.
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  • Reply 25 of 52
    my post made no sense whatsoever upon a quick re-reading. move along...nothing to see here.
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  • Reply 26 of 52
    melgrossmelgross Posts: 33,661member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by sunilraman

    my post made no sense whatsoever upon a quick re-reading. move along...nothing to see here.



    It's ok, we're used to it.
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  • Reply 27 of 52
    Quote:

    Originally posted by hkbaq

    great mock up.....

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    guys...remember: BATTERY......bluetooth probably drains the hell out of the ipod/headphones.

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    one thing to suport the bluetooth deal is that they cahnged all their lines to include bluetooth 2.0



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    i recently got a bluetooth headphone form motorola...and it's sort of a hazzle because it needs to be paired....i use it for my pw and for my phone and i have to make a quick configuration...apple would have to do something easier.



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    the best motorola headset can hold up to 8 hours talk time and about 120 standby. so take the mic out and you probably get 10-12 hrs i gues....thats right about the same amount for the ipod. the diference is the charging. once they do it it will porbably not come standard, because that is something to profit from. i would do it as to small headsets, conected by a small thin rope, behind the head. so that you son't loose them.



    i would only put the BT in the higher end models so that you don't compromise space in the nano/shuffle




    Something like that would be superb. Does everyone agree this should be the way foward?



    8)
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  • Reply 28 of 52
    melgrossmelgross Posts: 33,661member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by jimbo123

    Something like that would be superb. Does everyone agree this should be the way foward?



    8)




    Well Jimbo, as I think I almost understood him, sort of. So, is he saying that we should have a Bluetooth headphone that recharges seperately from the iPod? Or what?



    Because those exist now. There are at least three. I'm not sure if they are made FOR the iPod though. Read it over a month or more ago.



    Bluetooth always has to be paired. I'm not sure if he understood that or thinks it's just for that device. I don't see the problem with charging. That would be no different than it is now.



    If, as I THINK he's saying, a headphone for built-in Bluetooth, that's idle speculation until Apple produces one WITH Bluetooth.
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  • Reply 29 of 52
    Originally posted by jimbo123

    Something like that would be superb. Does everyone agree this should be the way foward?




    hmmm.... an iPod that uses some sort of wireless technology to stream music to your stereo, other parts of the house, or to your wireless headphone, that uses the same wireless technology to synchronise Tunes, contacts and calendar info quickly and seamlessly with your mac or windows or linux(?!!!) pc? which recharges easily and has long battery life?



    most definitely. this is the next step in the iPod evolution, besides a PSP-size/quality screen for watching videos



    in a sleeker, tougher iPod-mini-esque form factor BRING IT ON, APPLE, BRING IT MATE. BRING IT.



    the only problem is that current 802.11g and bluetooth flavours to not offer these sort of benefits just yet.... what new wireless technology could apple use??
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  • Reply 30 of 52
    how awesome also would it be for said iPod Video where you can either watch it on the go, or just hook it up easily to your tv to watch standard definition... said videos sync and previewed and organised seamlessly using iTunes with Video



    fuck intel's viiv** and M$ media center bullshit. fuck a standalone divx-player device thingy. an iPod Video would be way better. way..



    **i do hold out hope that an intel chip of some sort

    [as demonstrated at intel idf playing h.264 with just something like a 1ghz xscale(?) IIRC]

    might make the iPod WirelessMedia 60gb and 80gb a reality in the near future.
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  • Reply 31 of 52
    Quote:

    Originally posted by sunilraman

    Originally posted by jimbo123

    Something like that would be superb. Does everyone agree this should be the way foward?




    hmmm.... an iPod that uses some sort of wireless technology to stream music to your stereo, other parts of the house, or to your wireless headphone, that uses the same wireless technology to synchronise Tunes, contacts and calendar info quickly and seamlessly with your mac or windows or linux(?!!!) pc? which recharges easily and has long battery life?



    most definitely. this is the next step in the iPod evolution, besides a PSP-size/quality screen for watching videos



    in a sleeker, tougher iPod-mini-esque form factor BRING IT ON, APPLE, BRING IT MATE. BRING IT.



    the only problem is that current 802.11g and bluetooth flavours to not offer these sort of benefits just yet.... what new wireless technology could apple use??




    I disagree the 'g' standard is more than adequate to stream music to a Hi Fi

    proof in this is the Airport Express connected to a Hi Fi.



    54mb band width is sufficent to stream music.

    Just think if you can stream music by iPod then If you have a computer which already has Airport Express or equivalant then you could put songs on the ipod from your computer! or vice versa also sync with iPhoto etc

    all of a sudden you have a mini PDA!!



    Possibilities are endless. Just need to have good battery life.
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  • Reply 32 of 52
    fair enough. but would 802.11g handle wireless streaming to headphones* alright? and yeah, battery life??

    as in the 802.11g transmitter/receiver would have to be in tha wireless headphone set itself as well as the iPod....



    maybe its too much at this stage to hope for a "one size fits all" wireless solution. 'round the corner maybe, in santa steve's goody bag. christmas 2006. i'll try to be a good boy by then......
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  • Reply 33 of 52
    melgrossmelgross Posts: 33,661member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by sunilraman

    fair enough. but would 802.11g handle wireless streaming to headphones* alright? and yeah, battery life??

    as in the 802.11g transmitter/receiver would have to be in tha wireless headphone set itself as well as the iPod....



    maybe its too much at this stage to hope for a "one size fits all" wireless solution. 'round the corner maybe, in santa steve's goody bag. christmas 2006. i'll try to be a good boy by then......




    WiFi is crazy overkill for audio. Even 11Mbs is overkill. Even USB 1.1 or Bluetooth 1.2 is enough for full fidelity stereo.
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  • Reply 34 of 52
    Quote:

    Originally posted by melgross

    WiFi is crazy overkill for audio. Even 11Mbs is overkill. Even USB 1.1 or Bluetooth 1.2 is enough for full fidelity stereo.



    But 'g' is Apple standard anyway. And the range is better than blue tooth.

    Also would WiFi data rate not be quicker than Blue Tooth..



    So maybe ditch the Bluetoth headphones and concentrate on transmitting music

    over a wirless network.
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  • Reply 35 of 52
    melgrossmelgross Posts: 33,661member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by jimbo123

    But 'g' is Apple standard anyway. And the range is better than blue tooth.

    Also would WiFi data rate not be quicker than Blue Tooth..



    So maybe ditch the Bluetoth headphones and concentrate on transmitting music

    over a wirless network.




    But it doesn't matter. Any rates higher than what is needed is wasted.



    Anyway, Apple is standardizing on Bluetooth 2.



    http://www.radio-electronics.com/inf...etooth_edr.php
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  • Reply 36 of 52
    sjksjk Posts: 603member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by jimbo123

    I disagree the 'g' standard is more than adequate to stream music to a Hi Fi

    proof in this is the Airport Express connected to a Hi Fi.



    54mb band width is sufficent to stream music.




    And sufficient for streaming "DVD quality" MPEG-2 video with DTS audio to EyeHome.
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  • Reply 37 of 52
    melgrossmelgross Posts: 33,661member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by sjk

    And sufficient for streaming "DVD quality" MPEG-2 video with DTS audio to EyeHome.



    Now you're talking about something else. video is always much more bandwidth intensive. It's also much more sensitive to interference. Whenever I am at a Sony press conferance where they show their TV Anywhere, it suffers from interference. So have every other demo from Samsung, Pioneer, HP, and the others I've seen.
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  • Reply 38 of 52
    sjksjk Posts: 603member
    Sure, but I don't understand how your response relates to my agreeing with jimbo123's comments.
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  • Reply 39 of 52
    melgrossmelgross Posts: 33,661member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by sjk

    Sure, but I don't understand how your response relates to my agreeing with jimbo123's comments.



    It wasn't intended to. I was agreeing with your contention, and simply noting that your statement changed the area that the last few posts had gone into. Then I brought up some problems with wireless video.



    Was that a problem?
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  • Reply 40 of 52
    Quote:

    Originally posted by melgross

    It wasn't intended to. I was agreeing with your contention, and simply noting that your statement changed the area that the last few posts had gone into. Then I brought up some problems with wireless video.



    Was that a problem?




    Do you know what the cause of the interference usually is?
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