Tag Archives: A2DP

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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Bose SoundLink has Bluetooth inside

By mtc | Published: July 28, 2009
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

By mtc | Published: June 25, 2009
...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.

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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