Tag Archives: A2DP

Bose SoundLink has Bluetooth inside

So another little thing I like to do from time to time is troll the FCC database to see what’s happening in the field.  My curiosity was peaked by the Bose SoundLink enough to go fish.  I wrote about the new Bose product a couple weeks ago, and pointed out some viable, more affordable alternatives.
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Apple iPhone OS 3.0 shines fresh light (and enmity) on A2DP Stereo Bluetooth

…something funky is definitely going on with the Bluetooth stereo audio performance on the iPhone. Your suspicions are not unwarranted.

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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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