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A2DP Stereo Bluetooth Support

I have just got to know why it isn't an available feature on the iPhone, 3G or otherwise.

To anyone at Apple: Just so you know, the lack of A2DP is what is preventing me, and probably several thousands of other people from purchasing an iPhone. You likely don't care, as you're already selling millions of them as it is. But, it is beyond my ability to comprehend as to why you failed to add A2DP support. The wire and the white headphones are outdated, and should be a relic of the past.

Many of the issues with the iPhone are plain foolish. Copy & Paste, Video, MMS...these are all standard features on a great deal of phones out there. The iPhone could be the perfect all-in-one device, but no, you were either too short sited, too greedy, or too stupid to implement a few more capabilities.

All I really want to know, is WHY? Why did you fail to add A2DP stereo bluetooth support?

not an iPhone, Windows XP, still waiting for the real all-in-one phone

Posted on Jul 13, 2008 5:46 PM

28 replies

Nov 3, 2008 9:45 AM in response to Katherine Coffman

I just want to clarify one thing.. You can't get any music through a bluetooth headset right?, or is the problem that it is only Mono instead of Stereo?

Nov 8, 2008 1:27 PM in response to Katherine Coffman

I don't understand why everyone is bemoaning the lack of A2DP on the iPhone. It is my guess that Apple haven't bothered with it, because the sound quality is simply not good enough.
All the Bluetooth audio kit I have tried, sounds extremely quantised with very truncated bit depth. Not even good enough for the car, let alone headphones or through a HiFi.

Nov 8, 2008 1:50 PM in response to Katherine Coffman

I think iPhone does. check out this http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/29/iphone-1-1-1-bug-unleashes-music-over-bluetoo th/

Nov 8, 2008 9:53 PM in response to Katherine Coffman

Hello, I'm new to the iPhone world. I'm a skier in Colorado and just got a helmet with Bluetooth enabled. It's possible to sync a phone and music device to the headphones to be completely unwired. This would be nice due to the fact that skiing with wires dangling can be dangerous.

It was quite simple to sync the iPhone for phone use, but it seems impossible to do the same for the music side of things. It strikes me as a lack of A2DP.

My question is: Is it, or will it, be possible to use my iPhone to listen to music and send/recieve calls over Bluetooth?

Nov 9, 2008 1:43 AM in response to Tom Mckerrow

I'm pretty sure the sound quality with bluetooth headset would be comparable with radio. And most people are ok with listening to radio. The whole point with bluetooth headsets is to get rid of the wires, so having to carry around a wired headset too defeats the purpose.

Nov 11, 2008 7:17 PM in response to Tom Mckerrow

The sound from a good quality A2DP bluetooth stereo headset is very comparable to the sound heard with the included wired headphones. The difference being that A2DP provides freedom to do things that wired headphones do not provide. Such as the ability to snowboard, rollerblade, jog, etc without having a wire moving all around. The Bluetooth chip in the iPhone 3G can support this. Apple just needs to enable it with a software update. Note: Several bluetooth headsets such as from Motorola and Oakley allow one to make and receive calls, not just listen to music.

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Nov 15, 2008 8:33 AM in response to Katherine Coffman

Hi. I recently purchased a Motorola Stereo Headset HT820, and no where does it say that is incompatible with the IPhone. To my shock, the IPhone says "Paired" when I do what I have to do with the settings, but the headphones don't work. Luckily a friend of mine bought them and promptly used them on his cellphone which was not from Apple. The sound was great. My question: is this the problem you are talking about the A2DP? If so, then that really *****. Apple has enough money to go around to have to disallow these pairings. When I try to call both Motorola and Apple, they both blame each other, what a laugh. Can you tell me if I am right about this, or am I missing something here? Thanx, Bill

Nov 17, 2008 5:00 AM in response to imagine engine

It is the digital compression that you can hear in A2DP streamed music that I object to. Now matter how good the actual headphone or head-unit part of the chain is, it can not compensate for poor quality encoding.
It sounds like the results you get if you use the 128kbps import setting in iTunes.
Maybe I've been unlucky, but the A2DP kit I have experienced (my own ioPlay car stereo head-unit and a friend's Sony Ericsson headphones) is definitely not audiophile quality.
Let's hope the technology gets better, because I like the idea. But for the moment I have relegated my ioPlay to a simple hands-free unit and gone back to playing music through a wired connection.

CAuser

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Nov 17, 2008 9:38 AM in response to bentontechnical

So, are you saying you can have the A2DP feature with a plug in device? If so, what is that device and how does it work? I'm new to this A2DP concept and just reading this discussion has been a help. Thanks for any help you can offer.

Nov 17, 2008 10:07 PM in response to CAuser

http://iskin.com/ceruleanf1tx/

Nov 18, 2008 2:10 AM in response to Katherine Coffman

test

Nov 18, 2008 2:21 AM in response to Tom Mckerrow

Well most people only care about good audio quality when listening to music at home. When on the go it is more important that wires don't get in the way, and things are easy to carry around. I'm willing to sacrifice audio quality for that. It is not exactly an optimal solution to carry around a bluetooth headset and wired headphones.

At home I would listen to music on my full sized speakers anyway.

Nov 18, 2008 11:09 AM in response to rgnevashev

this works:
http://mobile.brando.com.hk/proddetail.php?prodid=03476

A2DP Stereo Bluetooth Support