Tag Archives: Bluetooth

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.
Unfortunately [...]

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It’s the centers of gravity, stupid.

By mtc | Published: July 16, 2009

I wanted to write a little about interface standards in consumer electronics.  My purpose here isn’t to write an exhaustive history of standards and formats – far from it, in fact – rather I want to present some background as a lead-in to some product-specific discussions that will be coming here on wab in [...]

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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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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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Great user review of the RF-WS02 outdoor wireless speaker

By mtc | Published: March 9, 2009

This www.bestbuy.com user (SR24) “gets” it.  In fact, she got almost every major differentiated feature that sets this product apart from others…  personally, I LOVE the fact she likes the group volume feature.
We bought two of these speakers to use in our living room and not outdoors. We only used one of the senders, but [...]

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