The future for IPOD

[blazerazor]

blue tooth , for wireless headphones + transfering + cingular. Woot!, WOO!

fingers crossed *I wish, I wish, I wish*

 

[JM Aggie08]

i will be the first and prolly not the last to not give a flying fvck

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I hear this will be the new iPhone

http://www.applele.com/img/pict05_iphone_r02b.jpg

 

[ultimatebob]

They weren't expected to release new iPods today, were they?

 

[blazerazor]

Originally posted by: JM Aggie08
i will be the first and prolly not the last to not give a flying fvck

So why did you post. And your signature shows your noobness, along the content of your post.

Would not wireless headphones super cool.? Or are you just too cool for that. It doesnot have to be apple. Some company needs to inovate. Just I'll bet my bottom dollar they do it first.

 

[blazerazor]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
They weren't expected to release new iPods today, were they?

No. Im just speculating.

 

[CKent]

i'M

 

[theNEOone]

yes and no. i would imagine that cell phone makers are hoping to consolidate devices, i.e. turn their phones into phones/media players and gain market share over the ipod. by making cell phones connect through that seemless cell phone-ipod-wireless headphone connectability, they lose the ability to closely control the market. cingular might try to make a push for this, but i would believe that they would be dwarfed by apple's and cell phone manufacturer's interests and be relegated to the sidelines.

however, there is already equipment out there that can do this. burton makes a snowboard jacket that allows you to have a cell phone in your pocket, and an ipod controlled by a display/remote on your sleeve. it'll display caller id on the sleeve, and mute your music if you answer the call. it's a great device, although it's not completely wireless...only the cell phone connects over bluetooth.


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[Don Vito Corleone]

This seems like a logical next step. Does Bluetooth have the bandwidth to be viable for file transfer?

 

[bigrash]

don't forget widescreen. rumor is that the bluetooth gen is coming late this year, while the widescreen is coming out early next year

 

[imported_LoKe]

Wireless headphones would be kinda nice.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Originally posted by: blazerazor

Originally posted by: JM Aggie08
i will be the first and prolly not the last to not give a flying fvck

So why did you post. And your signature shows your noobness, along the content of your post.

Would not wireless headphones super cool.? Or are you just too cool for that. It doesnot have to be apple. Some company needs to inovate. Just I'll bet my bottom dollar they do it first.

calm the fvck down. i stand by my statement since i have had two 3rd gen ipods that have died on me. and my noobness by my sig? are you that superior that you can insult someone's rig, that they worked hard for and are proud of? so is it that wrong that i cant give my own biased opinion on how not excited i am about the new fvcking ipods? man, you're awesome.

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: DonVito
This seems like a logical next step. Does Bluetooth have the bandwidth to be viable for file transfer?

No, it absolutely does not. Transfer speeds range from 20KB\s to 40KB\s. Not really practical for transfering music. I know this from trying it myself.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Wireless headphones would be kinda nice.

Not for audiophiles.

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: LoKe
Wireless headphones would be kinda nice.

Not for audiophiles.

Fortunately audiophiles wouldn't be caught dead listening to an iPod, so that's not an issue.

 

[zinkpig]

youd have to charge your headphones along with your ipod..blech !

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: LoKe
Wireless headphones would be kinda nice.

Not for audiophiles.

Fortunately audiophiles wouldn't be caught dead listening to an iPod, so that's not an issue.

Actually that's not true. For a portable system, not too much can beat an iPod line out to an amp, and even more so since they're rockbox-able.

 

[BrokenVisage]

A2DP.

/thread

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: LoKe
Wireless headphones would be kinda nice.

Not for audiophiles.

Fortunately audiophiles wouldn't be caught dead listening to an iPod, so that's not an issue.

Actually that's not true. For a portable system, not too much can beat an iPod line out to an amp, and even more so since they're rockbox-able.

Are you smoking crack? You mention it being portable, but then you qualify it's sound quality with an amp? Who carries an amp to listen to their iPod?

 

[QED]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: LoKe
Wireless headphones would be kinda nice.

Not for audiophiles.

Fortunately audiophiles wouldn't be caught dead listening to an iPod, so that's not an issue.

Actually that's not true. For a portable system, not too much can beat an iPod line out to an amp, and even more so since they're rockbox-able.

Are you smoking crack? You mention it being portable, but then you qualify it's sound quality with an amp? Who carries an amp to listen to their iPod?

You don't have to carry an amp to listen to an Ipod.

Yes, there is quite a growing community of audiophiles who use Ipods as their transport medium. When they want to listen to music from their Ipod at home or a fellow audiophile's house, they plug the Ipod's lineout to thier amp. Some of them have modded Ipods and/or modded amps to improve sound quality.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: LoKe
Wireless headphones would be kinda nice.

Not for audiophiles.

Fortunately audiophiles wouldn't be caught dead listening to an iPod, so that's not an issue.

Actually that's not true. For a portable system, not too much can beat an iPod line out to an amp, and even more so since they're rockbox-able.

Are you smoking crack? You mention it being portable, but then you qualify it's sound quality with an amp? Who carries an amp to listen to their iPod?

A lot of people do. Ever seen the Xin SuperMicro?

Come on, dude, there's a reason there's a market for portable amps. I'm a regular head-fi visitor, so I know what I'm talking about.

The reason iPods are very suitable for amping is because the stock iPod sound is quite neutral and non-colored - perfect for an amp. They're also popular and small, which doesn't hurt.

Maybe you don't carry an amp with your iPod - I know I don't carry an amp with my Sleek - but a lot of people do, so don't think that what you do is what everyone else does.

 

[QED]

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: LoKe
Wireless headphones would be kinda nice.

Not for audiophiles.

Fortunately audiophiles wouldn't be caught dead listening to an iPod, so that's not an issue.

Actually that's not true. For a portable system, not too much can beat an iPod line out to an amp, and even more so since they're rockbox-able.

Are you smoking crack? You mention it being portable, but then you qualify it's sound quality with an amp? Who carries an amp to listen to their iPod?

A lot of people do. Ever seen the Xin SuperMicro?

Come on, dude, there's a reason there's a market for portable amps. I'm a regular head-fi visitor, so I know what I'm talking about.

The reason iPods are very suitable for amping is because the stock iPod sound is quite neutral and non-colored - perfect for an amp. They're also popular and small, which doesn't hurt.

Maybe you don't carry an amp with your iPod - I know I don't carry an amp with my Sleek - but a lot of people do, so don't think that what you do is what everyone else does.

You have to take everything Nebor says with a huge grain of salt.

He's the some guy who claimed he had his Ipod Nano modded with a 10GB memory stick. When pressed for details, he of course never responds...

 

[Baked]

There's actually a mod you can buy to upgrade the iPod's amp. I read about this over at head-fi.org, the home of headphone nuts w/ too much money to waste. Most of them use mini portable amp w/ their iPod on the go.

 

[SamurAchzar]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: DonVito
This seems like a logical next step. Does Bluetooth have the bandwidth to be viable for file transfer?

No, it absolutely does not. Transfer speeds range from 20KB\s to 40KB\s. Not really practical for transfering music. I know this from trying it myself.

Bluetooth EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) supports up to 2.1MBit/sec, IIRC. That's like 260 Kilobyte/sec - more than fast enough for music, and appropriate for video at the low resolutions these screens support.

Older Bluetooth implementations were up to 700KBit/sec, IIRC again. That's around 90kilobyte/sec, enough for music but hardly for proper video.

Although those figures are peak theoretical bandwidth, in reality you're never hitting it.

With that aside, it's about time someone adopts Blueooth for portable media players (I thought about saying PMP but that's just ltoo much like PIMP - which is another sort of player, I guess).

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: QED
You have to take everything Nebor says with a huge grain of salt.

He's the some guy who claimed he had his Ipod Nano modded with a 10GB memory stick. When pressed for details, he of course never responds...

I know. Just spreading the head-fi love