new headphones from apple

i was figuring they we start shipping yesterday since it was the last day of october and the keynote said they would be out in october but whats the deal

imac macbook air, Mac OS X (10.5.2), 7 ipods

Posted on Nov 1, 2008 11:19 AM

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Nov 9, 2008 3:08 AM in response to Ollie-91

I asked an Apple Reseller and he told me
"The ear-phones (New In-Ear) are announced for November, without more precision for the moment unfortunately."

Nov 9, 2008 2:38 PM in response to stradijeri

I can say fairly certainly that they (the Apple iPhone headset) won't work with the iPod Touch 2G -- that is to say the earphones work, the mic works, but you'll have no control over pausing/skipping music tracks.

I bought them at an Apple store in London a couple of weeks ago and returned them for that reason.

Interesting that the store 1) accepted the return and 2) had no idea that the headphones should provide music control (it's mentioned nowhere in the packaging, only on the website product description -- where it also in fact misleadingly says they're 'compatible' with the iPod Touch 2G...)

Nov 12, 2008 7:05 PM in response to Furtwanglerian

are you sure about that? I own both iphone 3G, 2G ipod touch. earbuds for iphone with mic/playback control is working with 2G ipod touch as well, excepting microphone feature. press twice is next song, three times is previous song, press one time is stop & play. I am sure about it. but I don't like earbuds because it sounds terrible. wire is not smooth after folding.

Nov 19, 2008 3:11 PM in response to ArchUrban

Interesting, ArchUrban...

Yes, I had the MA814LLA "Apple Stereo headset with Mic" and found that with my iPod Touch 2G the microphone worked perfectly (I made a few Skype calls using fring), but that I had no control over the music playback.

I'm starting to think it's maybe not so surprising that it's taking longer than was initially suggested for Apple to get these new-Touch-compatible headsets out...

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