Category Archives: products for on-the-go

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

By mtc | Published: April 12, 2010
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

By mtc | Published: January 4, 2010
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…

By mtc | Published: August 25, 2009
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?

By mtc | Published: March 26, 2009
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.

By mtc | Published: March 19, 2009
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

By mtc | Published: November 14, 2008
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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