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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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Everything USB reviews the Creative HS-1200 wireless gaming headset

Overall, a very good review of the Creative HS-1200 wireless gaming headset. Eric’s conclusion was balanced, and mostly positive:
Overall, the HS-1200 gaming headset comes out on top: it gets the job done and does it efficiently and effectively over long hours without making you wish for an ear massage. However, Creative’s wireless gaming solution – [...]

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Logitech ClearChat PC Wireless is Mac OS and Windows “Driverless”

These screen grabs of Logitech’s software download support area say it all…
For Mac OS X

… and for Windows,

The ClearChat will be shipping soon, so go check it out if you are looking a wireless headset with Logitech’s usual quality.

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I’ve been tinkering… Apple Airtunes is pretty slick

Many folks are familiar with Apple Airport Express and Airtunes. It provides the ability to send iTunes audio from a PC/Mac to speakers that are connected to the Airport Express (which has both a Toslink and a line-level output). I’ve been playing with the latest variant. With Airport Express w/ wireless N, they’ve [...]

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The Logitech’s ClearChat Wireless PC Headset has been a long time coming…

As chopstickhero so eloquently posited,
this is a product that makes you think “why didn’t i think of that?”
Well the folks at Avnera did (way back in 2004!), and we made a single chip that will bring devices like this (and more) to market for years to come, at prices consistent with any other common PC [...]

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Skype Journal gives high praise to FREETALK Wireless Stereo Headset

Jim Courtney at Skype Journal put the FREETALK through the paces, and offered his first impressions… and I quote:
Today is my day of liberation!… Beethoven’s 9th has finished now; the pianissimo phrases were soft, the chorale fortes did not distort; you could clearly hear every word of the chorus in the fourth movement. On [...]

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