The GMA gang played with the iPhone too and said they had to return theirs -- probably to the guy in the suit from the David Pogue video!!
On the Today Show they had two women demonstrating them. The dizzy blonde (Matt's co-host) didn't understand that you need to double-touch to activate certain features, and was getting nowhere, while the brunette was cruising, and loving every second of the iPhone!
The dizzy blonde (Matt's co-host) didn't understand that you need to double-touch to activate certain features, and was getting nowhere, while the brunette was cruising, and loving every second of the iPhone!
There's no need for Apple to have made two docks in my opinion. They should have just made the dual dock, included it with the iPhone, and then sold the bluetooth headset with the travel cable (which they do) for $99.. would have been a more streamlined approach IMO.
On the Today Show they had two women demonstrating them. The dizzy blonde (Matt's co-host) didn't understand that you need to double-touch to activate certain features, and was getting nowhere, while the brunette was cruising, and loving every second of the iPhone!
If this is the thing you are referring to, she didn't press the button. I took this screenshot just as she's pressing in on the screen. She keeps pressing below the button.
The Dual Dock should have been included. What better incentive to purchase the Apple headset?
My sentiments, too.
I also thinks there should have been a separate iPod dock for sale with an iPhone dock in the front and a Universal dock in the back for different iPods. I know I plan to keep at least one regualr iPod.
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Originally Posted by JohnnyKrz
$129 for a bluetooth earpiece that probably won't stay in your ear. Is it just me or does anyone else hate earbuds? Maybe I just have odd-sized ears...
I've always hated the Apple ear piece. Hopefullly Sony comes out with an earbud version.
Just how big of the market do you think is dominated by people that need a tele-typewriter? Save the $9 for the rest of us....
Oops... I take it back!
I thought that this was an adapter that was meant to solve the problem of the recessed headphone jack input that rendered the iPhone unusable with some standard iPod-friendly headphones..... (e.g., Pogue referred to it in his review).
Except that this isn't a regular bluetooth headset. Or even a nice Bluetooth 2.0 headset. It's a Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR headset that actually uses +EDR for it's connection meaning that it won't be like all the other bluetooth headsets you've ever used or any that you can buy today. So it will be better than the best bluetooth headset you are used to using.
Only two other companies make Bluetooth +EDR earpieces but even the latest Motorola phones that have +EDR don't use it when connecting to the earpiece.
Normal Bluetooth 2.0 Headset, 16kps
Bluetooth using +EDR = 3mb/s
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Originally Posted by a_greer
wheres the car charger?
$129 for a headset is soooooooo overpriced that it isnt even funny!
Except that this isn't a regular bluetooth headset. Or even a nice Bluetooth 2.0 headset. It's a Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR headset that actually uses +EDR for it's connection meaning that it won't be like all the other bluetooth headsets you've ever used or any that you can buy today. So it will be better than the best bluetooth headset you are used to using.
Only two other companies make Bluetooth +EDR earpieces but even the latest Motorola phones that have +EDR don't use it when connecting to the earpiece.
Normal Bluetooth 2.0 Headset, 16kps
Bluetooth using +EDR = 3mb/s
Yes, but can it do my laundry? And what ever happen to the concept that technology was to get better, and less expensive?
I think Apple should have thrown in for free the TTY adapter -- to charge an extra $9 for that is downright cheap, money-grubby, and ridiculous.
Considering they will only sell a few thousand, and it probably had to be certified by a third party to be "tty compliant" and that costs money: add the techncal development and support costs then the manufacturing and shipping, they cant be making more than $0.50 per unit -- furthermore if all iPhones included the TTY piece and costs $10 more, people would be ticked because they were wasting money and poluting by buying crap that you will never use.
If you spend $500 on a phone, the TTY kit is not that big of a deal.
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Why not get on the special list that Matt Lauer mentioned that he is on this morning on the Today Show? Perks anyone?
The GMA gang played with the iPhone too and said they had to return theirs -- probably to the guy in the suit from the David Pogue video!!
The GMA gang played with the iPhone too and said they had to return theirs -- probably to the guy in the suit from the David Pogue video!!
On the Today Show they had two women demonstrating them. The dizzy blonde (Matt's co-host) didn't understand that you need to double-touch to activate certain features, and was getting nowhere, while the brunette was cruising, and loving every second of the iPhone!
Man, am I glad I'm married to a brunette!
The dizzy blonde (Matt's co-host) didn't understand that you need to double-touch to activate certain features, and was getting nowhere, while the brunette was cruising, and loving every second of the iPhone!
Man, am I glad I'm married to a brunette!
Meredith Viera isn't a natural blonde...
On the Today Show they had two women demonstrating them. The dizzy blonde (Matt's co-host) didn't understand that you need to double-touch to activate certain features, and was getting nowhere, while the brunette was cruising, and loving every second of the iPhone!
If this is the thing you are referring to, she didn't press the button. I took this screenshot just as she's pressing in on the screen. She keeps pressing below the button.
The Dual Dock should have been included. What better incentive to purchase the Apple headset?
My sentiments, too.
I also thinks there should have been a separate iPod dock for sale with an iPhone dock in the front and a Universal dock in the back for different iPods. I know I plan to keep at least one regualr iPod.
$129 for a bluetooth earpiece that probably won't stay in your ear. Is it just me or does anyone else hate earbuds? Maybe I just have odd-sized ears...
I've always hated the Apple ear piece. Hopefullly Sony comes out with an earbud version.
Just how big of the market do you think is dominated by people that need a tele-typewriter? Save the $9 for the rest of us....
Oops... I take it back!
I thought that this was an adapter that was meant to solve the problem of the recessed headphone jack input that rendered the iPhone unusable with some standard iPod-friendly headphones..... (e.g., Pogue referred to it in his review).
Only two other companies make Bluetooth +EDR earpieces but even the latest Motorola phones that have +EDR don't use it when connecting to the earpiece.
Normal Bluetooth 2.0 Headset, 16kps
Bluetooth using +EDR = 3mb/s
wheres the car charger?
$129 for a headset is soooooooo overpriced that it isnt even funny!
Except that this isn't a regular bluetooth headset. Or even a nice Bluetooth 2.0 headset. It's a Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR headset that actually uses +EDR for it's connection meaning that it won't be like all the other bluetooth headsets you've ever used or any that you can buy today. So it will be better than the best bluetooth headset you are used to using.
Only two other companies make Bluetooth +EDR earpieces but even the latest Motorola phones that have +EDR don't use it when connecting to the earpiece.
Normal Bluetooth 2.0 Headset, 16kps
Bluetooth using +EDR = 3mb/s
Yes, but can it do my laundry? And what ever happen to the concept that technology was to get better, and less expensive?
Man, am I glad I'm married to a brunette!
If you could have married a blonde, you would have.
If you could have married a blonde, you would have.
Actually, my first wife was a blond! Man, did I learn my lesson!
I think Apple should have thrown in for free the TTY adapter -- to charge an extra $9 for that is downright cheap, money-grubby, and ridiculous.
Considering they will only sell a few thousand, and it probably had to be certified by a third party to be "tty compliant" and that costs money: add the techncal development and support costs then the manufacturing and shipping, they cant be making more than $0.50 per unit -- furthermore if all iPhones included the TTY piece and costs $10 more, people would be ticked because they were wasting money and poluting by buying crap that you will never use.
If you spend $500 on a phone, the TTY kit is not that big of a deal.