iPhone apparently does seem to support sending any audio - including music and the audio tracks from your videos - to a Bluetooth headset that isn’t even enabled with A2DP - but it aint pretty.[...] Thanks to chanpory for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 477Diggs).
What other users say about this:
askjason75: You can enable Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) and Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) profiles via hardware solutions such as iBlueT from 8bananas.com. Basically it is a “Made for iPod” dongle and stereo headset bundle. You connect the dongle to the iPhone via the dock connector and then pair the stereo headset to your iPhone / dongle. I can confirm it does NOT have the annoying speaker playing at the same time problem that everyone has experienced with the workarounds of enabling A2DP via tricks / hacks etc… It only cost $99USD vs the Apple Bluetooth headset at $129 USD…
alias420: http://www.iphone-hacks.com
iapx: The interesting thing is that enable everyone to SHARE music over bluetooth, from an iPhone to any bluetotth-enabld computer…
ballmatic: I found the easiest solution to be $50 for the Oakley icombi bluetooth adapter for instant A2DP support with my Motorola S9 stereo headset. It’s technically not a hack, works 100% of the time, sounds great, and you don’t have to enter airplane mode. Shame on Apple for not having A2DP right out of the box though.
vaultspawn: This worked with my Samsung WEP200…..cool little discovery.
JeffS: There’s too many hacks needed to make the iPhone do the obvious things that a WM5 or WM6 phone can already do.
pr5owner: shit cant delete the comment above (used a stupid angle bracket to illustrate less than)
why the fuck would you want to stream your mp3/aac audio at less than 64kbps it will sound like absolute shit!!!!!!!!
a REAL A2DPphone will stream your audio at around 250kbps which is *OK* and will not chew your ears upthe only reason why you would do a dirty audio/bluetooth hack is for skype or other VOIP so you can use your bt headset to talk and hear. skype and voip is just voice which is ok at 64kbps
pr5owner: WTF why would you want to streamMusic at 250kpbs which is *ok* quality and is listenable
what a waste of time, unless they got skype running through that BT hack like pda phones, but then again, that is just voice not AUDIO
aserer511: LG Chocolate can do it out of the box.
Nysul: what? you don’t need A2DP to send audio to a bluetooth receiver. A2DP is just better quality and in stereo.
yingjai: Will these iPhone posts ever end? Why can’t there be news on other phones. I have to read at least 1 or 2 iPhone titles on frontpage everyday.
mrroarke: Hey… what happened to “It just works?” Is it keeping the “megahertz myth” company?
roastedbagel: I know I’ll get dugg down for this but…
It’s a shame you have to do a “hack” to do this in the first place…
squirmalicious: Hate the current apple board and love my Macbook, so I may have to get one of these….
