iPhone OS 3.0 and Bluetooth question

[Shameless1]

Ok I admit it, I don't have a clue when it comes to bluetooth head sets. That being said I got a couple questions thought I would ask them here.

With the new OS does that mean I can do stereo bluetooth and hear music and phone calls thru them ?

I have a friends that can do dialing with bluetooth connection in the car (GPS that has bluetooth), with the updated bluetooth will the iphone be able to do that ?

Again I know very little about bluetooth and what it's all about.

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[bobb-mini]

With the new OS does that mean I can do stereo bluetooth and hear music and phone calls thru them ?
I dunno whether u will do both simultaneously but one task-at-a-time, certainly.

I have a friends that can do dialing with bluetooth connection in the car (GPS that has bluetooth), with the updated bluetooth will the iphone be able to do that ?
Huh?

U mean like using a remote keypad to dial?

And I totally don't understand your question (if there was one) about GPS.

[Shameless1]

I dunno whether u will do both simultaneously but one task-at-a-time, certainly.


Huh?

U mean like using a remote keypad to dial?

And I totally don't understand your question (if there was one) about GPS.

Well the GPS could connect to the cell phone and bring up it's phone list and you could dial from it. The GPS also had a mic and speaker for hands free.

[bobb-mini]

Well the GPS could connect to the cell phone and bring up it's phone list and you could dial from it. The GPS also had a mic and speaker for hands free.
Oh, THAT I don't know.

If u feel like doing some research, basically Bluetooth have separate functions called PROFILES. A profile does a specific thing. Like A2DP is to play stereo signal. I forget what the headset profile is called, u may wanna find out whether this profile allows remote dialing.

[Shameless1]

Oh, THAT I don't know.

If u feel like doing some research, basically Bluetooth have separate functions called PROFILES. A profile does a specific thing. Like A2DP is to play stereo signal. I forget what the headset profile is called, u may wanna find out whether this profile allows remote dialing.

I guess my question is with OS 3.0 will you be able to do these different "profiles" ?

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[jhollington]

The iPhone already supports the Bluetooth dialing and headset profiles, so that won't really be anything new. So in other words, you should already be able to integrate your car with your existing iPhone for the purposes of handsfree phone calls and dialing.

The 3.0 OS is supposed to add stereo Bluetooth support (also known as the A2DP profile) and possibly remote music control (AVCRP profile). It also looks like it will provide Bluetooth PAN (personal area network) profile support for "tethering" your iPhone to your computer so that you can use your iPhone's Internet connection from your laptop via Bluetooth.

[bobb-mini]

I guess my question is with OS 3.0 will you be able to do these different "profiles" ?
I believe that's been published. Of course nothing is 100% certain until it comes out.

[baggss]

Well the GPS could connect to the cell phone and bring up it's phone list and you could dial from it. The GPS also had a mic and speaker for hands free.

My TomTom will do that with my iPhone with the current firmware.

[bobb-mini]

PAN profile huh. I always thought, why be limited by built-in storage? Have as many goggle-byte in the car, then just have the iPhone/iPod wirelessly access it! Wonder if the PAN throughput is enuff to handle things. Would be useful to access large detailed maps for GPS-like use.

[jhollington]

Well, I'm not convinced the PAN profile is going to work both ways.... It's main purpose right now seems to be for tethering ... using the iPhone to pass-through an Internet connection from another device using that profile. I'm not sure the iPhone will be able to act as a client for another PAN-capable device.

[wstanley]

Well, I'm not convinced the PAN profile is going to work both ways.... It's main purpose right now seems to be for tethering ... using the iPhone to pass-through an Internet connection from another device using that profile. I'm not sure the iPhone will be able to act as a client for another PAN-capable device.


The current software won't voice dial over bluetooth. For me, unless 3.0 can do that simple job I'll switch when my contract is up (I'm already frustrated by poor call quality on my 1st Gen iPhone in a major city). Any word if 3.0 will allow real voice dialing.

[jhollington]

Well, it's not so much that the iPhone doesn't support voice dial over Bluetooth as that the iPhone doesn't support voice dial at all (which naturally includes support for it over Bluetooth).

If you have a Bluetooth accessory that handles its own voice dialing, such as many integrated car systems, then the iPhone will work fine with those, since in this case it's the Bluetooth accessory/kit interpreting your voice and just passing a number to the iPhone.

In terms of 3.0, there have been rumours that voice dial may appear based on people digging into the beta code, but I haven't seen any concrete evidence of that yet in terms of somebody showing it working on an actual iPhone. I guess we'll have to wait and see what leaks out in future betas and/or what shows up in the final release.

It's also entirely possible that, like video recording capabilities, voice dial will only be available on new hardware rather than simply being provided for existing phones in a firmware upgrade. Logical reasons for this may be that Apple is adding a better speech recognition hardware chip to the new model, which I suspect is what they're also doing for video recording (adding hardware-encoding). This would explain why people are seeing these features in the beta code, but not seeing them actually implemented on their existing iPhones. Apple's history has shown that they tend to try and do things like this via hardware whenever possible in order to keep the user experience as fast and smooth as they can.