Did you know that there are roughly twenty-five Bluetooth profiles? iPhone only supports the Hands-Free Profile (HFP) and Headset Profile (HSP). You’ve heard my bellyache over the lack of support for Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) and Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP). If supported, these two profiles would stream music wirelessly from the iPhone to any supported Bluetooth headsets (i.e. Etymotic ety8) or wireless HiFi speakers (i.e. Com One Bluetooth Speaker System). Well, I’m back again with another Bluetooth bitch session.
Parrot finally sent me their new 7-inch Photo Viewer. Nearly every single Bluetooth-enabled phone on the market supports the Basic Imaging Profile (BIP), File Transfer Profile (FTP), and Object Push Profile (OPP). Guess what? iPhone can’t send images to the Photo Viewer. Why? Because iPhone’s Bluetooth is either extremely dumb, crippled or both.
http://www.myitablet.com/media/parrot-photo-viewer.flv
While I’m on the subject, not that I would ever want to use dial-up networking over EDGE, iPhone doesn’t support the Dial-Up Networking Profile (DUN).
Am I alone or are you pretty p----d off too?
iPhone Support:
Hands-Free Profile (HFP)
Headset Profile (HSP)
iPhone Does Not Support:
Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP)
Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP)
Basic Imaging Profile (BIP)
Basic Printing Profile (BPP)
Cordless Telephony Profile (CTP)
Device ID Profile (DID)
Dial-up Networking Profile (DUN)
Fax Profile (FAX)
File Transfer Profile (FTP)
General Audio/Video Distribution Profile (GAVDP)
Generic Access Profile (GAP)
Generic Object Exchange Profile (GOEP)
Human Interface Device Profile (HID)
Intercom Profile (ICP)
Object Push Profile (OPP)
Personal Area Networking Profile (PAN)
Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP)
Serial Port Profile (SPP)
Service Discovery Application Profile (SDAP)
SIM Access Profile (SAP,SIM)
Synchronisation Profile (synch)
Video Distribution Profile (vdp)
Wireless Application Protocol Bearer (WAPB)
Apple thought ahead and made it so you can only use their product with the I phone. It’s pretty obvious but still bs.
BTW – Even thought the iPhone supports Hands-Free Profile, it appears it does not do a great job with it. I’ve been using my iPhone with my car’s hands-free capability and the voice quality is so bad I can’t use it to make/receive calls. The two other phones I use with my car work fine.
Definitely both, dumb AND crippled.
And what about not supporting WAP, this product needs some serious reviewing! Regret buying it.
What are you trying to tell me I cannot send pictures or music from my nokia e65 to my iPhone? If so that’s really quite bad. Can someone please help. All my iPhone does is says it’s searchn for devises but nothing seems to happen. I don’t know y iPhone does this as this feature will just put people off buying stuff from iTunes.
Iphone bluetooth has relased!!!!
File transfert with bluetooth to pc, mac and phone!!!!
Visit Cydia and search ibluetooth!!!
I love the fact that i can do almost everything i did with my sony ericsson phone Plus go on the internet……….. what i regret is buying this piece of shit phone……..
I just spent 100 bucks on a bluetooth headset i can’t use because i just found this website telling me that the iphone doesn’t have Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) which i need for listening to music…….
i hate Steve Jobs……..
Ease up……. A2DP will be in the iPhone 3.0 next release this summer. Just wait and enjoy….. It will be free for iPhone 3G (2.0) users
Will SIM Access Profile (SAP,SIM) be available in iphone firmware 3.0 too ? Does anyone knows this ?
I cant believe I bought an iphone…its utter crap
I cant:
receieve photos/music/anything from other phones
forward text messages
export contacts from iphone to sim
no video recorder
transfer songs from my music folder on my pc to iphone
has a crap text predictor
etc etc
I should have stuck with my nokia
Rubstar, don’t be such a tool. The 3g’s been out for damn near a year, and it’s no secret that those functions you listed were missing. You’re either living under a rock, or too effin lazy to do even minimal research before buying a phone. If you DID know this stuff before you bought it (which you should have) you’re an even bigger tool than I originally thought…
Look, i researched the iphone and basically thought it was a complete piece of shite, until i found out that you jailbreak it, and then everything thats bad (ie missing) you get via cydia or uploading it yourself to the damn thing
I am sooooo peeevvvveeeed offf! No BT? I need BT functionality, and I need it now. Thank goodness I only bought 1 to test out. I wanted to buy over 250 for my students for teaching and learning … but not now!
This is an utter disappointment. I think it is all to do with GREED! They want EVERYTHING to go through WiFi because it costs. What are they thinking? What a BACKWARD step. Point me to a REAL 21st Century Mobile Phone/Shuttle device … I will begin marching …
Absolutely disgraceful…..
Just switched from a BBerry 8830 to an iPhone when my employer let me cancel my plan. I really think I’ve made a mistake!
I used the 8830 for dial-up networking, as a music player, and had it synched with my car stereo and stereo headset. Now my MacBook says that there are NO services available, and the car stereo won’t work through the Bluetooth interface.
The Blackberry supports SD cards, so the device is expandable. The iPhone – even with 16 GB will be out of date well before the phone contract is up.
I can’t believe that Apple would come up with such a brain-dead product!
Question, I have bluetooth car stereo, (Pioneer FH P 80 BT) and what I would like to know is if someone else who has a bluetooth car stereo or a car that comes with bluetooth… Does the Iphone work with it?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Question, which profiles does the iphone bluetooth support now?
OPP, FTP, A2DP, AVRCP, and so on.
i love the apple iphones ipod touch like features internet bla blah.. however i do miss sending pic messages and multimedia bluetoothing was a big thing for me :((( it really sucks. so it is retarded and crippled id just go back to my other :( but ive used sooooo much money getting into this one.
Bishop,
I have the exact combination (i.e. Pioneer FH-P80BT and iPhone 1st generation) and it works like a charm!. Full control of the iPhone over the BT (Contacts download, Caller ID, etc) as well as from the USB for playing your music (you have the exact controls as you would if you had an iPod)
Great stuff…
I have a JVC KD-AVX33 and it connects to my iphone, syncs contacts and recent calls but the voice quality is so bad… it seems to degrade after some minutes of use to almost unbearable on the other side (in the car sounds fine, but I always get compla8ints about noise)…
Another problem is that I have to delete the pair in the stereo and reconnect the phone each time I turn the car off… that is really a pain.
Normally, I would just get in the car and the devices would just connect…. Now, it’s delete the pair, set the stereo to open a device, go into the iphone settings/general/bluetooth/connect/password… then they connect :-(
Does anyone know how to resolve these issues?
Oh! BTW, I am using the new iPhone 3.0 software and it has streaming audio!!! Sounds OK, but quality could be better.
I Completely agree. I so miss decent Bluetooth. I couldn’t even send my addy book from my old phone. All I checked when I bought it was that it had Bluetooth. You should have to be told thAt it is shit Bluetooth
I have a parrott Bluetooth device for my car and it works great with my I phone my hubby has one in his car to :)
little dissapointed with new software wanted video and voice control and can u bluetooth now with other phones ??
The remote SAP feature is what I am looking for for my car and it seems that the iPHONE does not support it. From the looks of it, it doesn’t seem that they are going that route. Considering that most high end car require that technology for the phone to work correctly why wouldn’t Apple invest in a little bit of firmware upgrade? At the price the phone costs, you would think it does at least as good a Job as Nokia, the phone that I had to buy because it supports rsap! Sadly, had to return the iPhone.
I have 3.0 software update and still there is no provision for transfering contacts to my car satnav headset/hands free phone. Are Apple plain stupid or is it just they don’t care?
Yes, the iPhone is cripled in more ways than one – even the update calander still does cater for going directly to a date. One can get there but what a rigmeroll traversing back and forth with the arrows. I needed to get back to 1856 and it took me nearly 5 minutes to do so on that blasted thumb wheel.
It would seem that every other mobile phone manufacturer has done their best to make things easy and Apple have gone out of their way to make things as hard as possible.