Tag Archives: iPod

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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iHOME|ONE minisite revealed… say Watt?

By mtc | Published: March 24, 2009
Now, one-hundred of you… all together….  Watt! iHome has pulled the curtain back just a bit to tease the forthcoming iHome ONE.  They state this is “the one you’ve been waiting for.”  If only everyone knew on how many levels that’s not an overstatement! This one is near and dear to my heart. I was [...]
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Can iPhone 3.0 3rd-party notifiers access Core Location?

By mtc | Published: March 21, 2009
Ross Rubin raises an interesting point… Yes, the iPhone does allow background processes – Apple’s. While every other music player for the iPhone will stop playing when you exit it, Apple’s iPod application will play in the background. Obviously, this consumes cycles, but Apple doesn’t seem to mind the tax on battery life here. This [...]
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What the hell is this trying to illustrate?

By mtc | Published: March 15, 2009
Some wireless audio marketing is so busted… I won’t publicize which company this is from, but keen viewers should be able to figure it out… To be clear I find this graphic lazy, misleading, and totally ineffective.  Thankfully it isn’t something from any of my past employers… That it is trying to illustrate the portable [...]
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AirPhones turns your iPhone or touch into a wireless speaker

By mtc | Published: February 28, 2009
AirPhones turns your iPhone or touch into a wireless speaker. This falls under the “just because you can” category.  I don’t think there is much to see here for anyone but uber-geeks.
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Thirteen years after playing my first mp3 file, I think we’re on to something…

By mtc | Published: February 10, 2009
After spending a considerable amount of time looking for product opportunities in the digital audio device world (and finding one) for the better part of five years, and while being a chronic early adopter and experimenter of all things web 2.0 and similar, I’ve gleaned some “truths” that I thought I’d put down here. I [...]
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