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Bluetooth A2DP on iPhone 3GS and iPad better than on 3G

Noting that I railed against Apple’s implementation of A2DP when iPhone OS 3.0 was released last year, I was doing so from my experience with the iPhone 3G, the most prevalent model at the time.  Just to confirm and keep me on record, it’s still terrible. However, it seems that dark little example of an [...]
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Nexus One, Android Apps and my Nexus One + Sky Map experience

There are few things that are really nice about the Nexus One: The biggest being the display.  High resolution, and OLED meaning clarity and contrast ratios were stunning – making the apps and icons look amazing. Overall look and feel of the phone’s navigation and GUI was stellar.  However, the scrolling app tray with a [...]
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Netbooks…

The CEO of netbook pioneer Asustek Computer said Tuesday that he still sees no clear market for mini-laptops known as smartbooks, the reason the company isnt moving forward in that product segment. via Asusteks Android Eee PC Remains in Deep Freeze – PC World.
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Bluetooth Headphones: which ones can hold an iPhone’s jock?

Here’s a question for you all:  what model of Bluetooth headphones do you think can honestly hang with the design sophistication and street cred of an iPhone?  When A2DP support is released for the iPhone later this year, what models will get the bump in sales?  Here are the ones (from Amazon’s list of category [...]
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iPhone 3.0 will support Stereo Bluetooth. Overall, very cool, but caveat emptor.

Stereo Bluetooth support on iPhone is coming with iPhone OS 3.0.  Welcome news for many, but beware of the reduced audio quality you will get from many existing 3rd party A2DP devices.  Generic A2DP only support SBC compression format for wireless transmission, and therefore you will get nasty transcoding (or tandem) artifacts resulting in muddy, [...]
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Onkyo MHP-UW2 on sale now in Japan

Onkyo Direct in Japan has the Onkyo wireless headphones for iPod available to order. AVアクセサリー – MHP-UW2 e-onkyo
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