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Bluetooth iPod: More Cost, Less Battery

Infoworld’s Tech Watch is covering the Bluetooth iPod watch:

I met with Michael Foley, executive director of the Bluetooth SIG and asked him if he heard anything about enabling iPod with Bluetooth so that you can use a Bluetooth wireless stereo headset.
Foley said everyone is waiting for it but he’s heard nothing from Apple.
However, here’s the straight skinny on what it would take to add Bluetooth to the iPod.
Number one, since the Bluetooth 2.0 spec is now ratified, which performs at 3Mb per second, stereo headsets are already on to the market.
The cost to Apple of adding a Bluetooth radio to the iPod would be about $2.50 for the iPod and another $2.50 for a headset. That’s assuming Apple wanted to offer the wireless headset.

Read more at Infoworld Tech Watch.


Infoworld’s Tech Watch is covering the Bluetooth iPod watch:

I met with Michael Foley, executive director of the Bluetooth SIG and asked him if he heard anything about enabling iPod with Bluetooth so that you can use a Bluetooth wireless stereo headset.
Foley said everyone is waiting for it but he’s heard nothing from Apple.
However, here’s the straight skinny on what it would take to add Bluetooth to the iPod.
Number one, since the Bluetooth 2.0 spec is now ratified, which performs at 3Mb per second, stereo headsets are already on to the market.
The cost to Apple of adding a Bluetooth radio to the iPod would be about $2.50 for the iPod and another $2.50 for a headset. That’s assuming Apple wanted to offer the wireless headset.

Read more at Infoworld Tech Watch.

By Jason O'Grady

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