03-17-2004, 12:34 AM
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Bluetooth Headphones: Digital Audio Without Wires
"The 'SONORIX' Bluetooth Audio Player OBH-0100, the first of its kind in the world, is a multi-functional wireless audio player that functions as a Wireless Headphone for PC enabling voice chatting and high quality music streaming, Wireless Headset for handsfree operation with mobile phones and Standalone Audio Player for listening to music anytime, anywhere.
� World's first Bluetooth stereo audio player
� Bluetooth technology for complete wirelessness
� CD quality sound
� Wireless PC stereo headphone feature
� Standalone music player (MP3/WMA) function
� Compressed music (MP3/WMA)
� Streaming function, voice chatting function
� High capacity flash memory embedded
� Uses high density Li-Ion Polymer battery for long lasting play
� UFO shaped battery charger
� Bluetooth USB Dongle(OBU-0100) included"
There's a review published in French, and here's a link to the Google translation into English, but isn't it amazing how far automated translations services still have to come? Look at this gibberish:
"As of l?ouverture of its beautiful limps worthy of the largest marks of the world of audio-visual, one of course discovers the helmet, a base of refill (for the removable battery included in the helmet), a dongle bluetooth, a extension bluetooth, a food for the base of refill and finally a cover." :lol:
Anyway, getting back to the subject at hand, this looks like a solid, useful product for getting rid of the wires. I tend to prefer listening to music on my speakers, but I can see scenarios where this would be useful as accessory for an audio player.
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03-17-2004, 12:43 AM
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03-17-2004, 12:53 AM
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Oracle
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I say: Want sound? Wait until the CeBIT starts...
I have a CD with some product information that I can not disclose yet, but boy are you in for a surprise. Think about streaming, think about no wires for speakers, think about the whole thing.
I'm waiting for a couple of review units to arrive so I can at last remove some clutter from the home theatre area at home.
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03-17-2004, 12:54 AM
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Mystic
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This is exactly why Bluetooth does not live up to the hype. It is meant to replace wires and speaker wires is one of the most important ones to get rid of (IMHO). BT just isn't fast enough to pass through quality stereo. Think of all the personal devices that you carry that have wires. I bet the most common is a stereo headphone with wires.
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03-17-2004, 01:04 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Apr 2004
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I noticed that they mention there is an optional adaptor for non-bluetooth phones.
They have a pic of it (fuzzy) with the "Bluetooth Headset". I wonder if you could use that device to transmitt audio data via bluetooth from any source (looks like a stereo jack) to any bluetooth compatible headset or speakers (I know that nobody has them yet). ie my mp3/cd player to my new bluetooth stereo headphones? I think this device is just as cool as the headphones, cause it would make any source instantly BT compatible.
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03-17-2004, 01:07 AM
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Pontificator
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Originally Posted by JonnoB
This is exactly why Bluetooth does not live up to the hype. It is meant to replace wires and speaker wires is one of the most important ones to get rid of (IMHO). BT just isn't fast enough to pass through quality stereo. Think of all the personal devices that you carry that have wires. I bet the most common is a stereo headphone with wires.
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BT 1.1 has more than enough bandwidth to deal with mp3/wma which covers most modern portable devices. BT 2.0 will happily match the needs of ANY stereo system.
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03-17-2004, 01:11 AM
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Pupil
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These have been promised on the net for a while now.
Not sure that these will see the light of day. There is also some confusion as to whether these will allow true streaming over the bluetooth profile or whether it can only store/access its internal memory.
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03-17-2004, 01:16 AM
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Mystic
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My desk is covered in DVI, Firewire, USB2 and optical speaker wires (fiber for DD5.1) ... I don't have much hope that BT gets rid of that wire mess.
I think that wireless USB will be real winner in wire replacement. Hopefully I am wrong and the BT SIG will get its act together and come up with a higher bandwidth solution sooner rather than later and more importantly it seems, do some quality certification for interoperability between devices.
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03-17-2004, 01:55 AM
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Oracle
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Originally Posted by fletch
These have been promised on the net for a while now.
Not sure that these will see the light of day. There is also some confusion as to whether these will allow true streaming over the bluetooth profile or whether it can only store/access its internal memory.
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Most products are in the vapourware club now. I've seen a couple sites from korean firms, and they always come back "Will be available later" - a year ago.
I've documentation of a range of new products that *will* replace speaker wires.
This one in the article is no more than a Bluetooth headset with a different shape, plus some flash memory to store music.
The Bluetooth functionality is, like the Sony Ericsson Bluetooth MP3 player in the market before this product only for headset. If a call comes in it stops playing the MP3. You can use Bluetooth to connect to the headset to transfer music. Of course you can connect to your desktop using the headset profile, but then it's not stereo.
Wait for the real thing. And yes, BT 2.0 has more power for the stereo streaming and speaker wire replacement.
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03-17-2004, 02:53 AM
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