Belkin was kind enough to send me a couple of iPhone accessories such as the acrylic case, and headphone connector.
The Acrylic case doesn’t provide much of a protection should you drop it. I found in my review that the front piece that connects to the back piece holding the iPhone in place easily pops off. So I urge you to be very careful using this case. It’s pretty to use and extremely stylish. The Acrylic case allows full access to the iPhone ports, screen and buttons. The belt also doubles as a “video-viewing stand.” The Acrylic case sells for $29.99.
Click over for more pictures and video demo of the Belkin Acrylic iPhone case and headphone adapter.
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Thanks to Apple’s modification to the headphone connector, accessory makers now have an opportunity to cash in. That’s right, in order to fit most standard-size headphones on the market, you need to purchase a headphone adapter, or you can use the headphones provided by Apple. This is set you back around $10, depending on where you buy it.
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Just a quick note maybe you know this,
A cell phone jack has to accommodate headphones that have a mic in them. If you compare your regular ipod headphones to the iphone head phones you will see the iphone has 3 stripes on it and the ipod has 2 stripes. The extra section is to accomodate the microphone in your headset.
Usually the adapter drops one line internally for a mike in short adapter section and then passes on the other two lines for your standard headphones.
This is pretty much a know deal, i had a I730 and it was the same thing. Your iphone speakers probably will not work with your ipod.
[quote comment="4888"]Just a quick note maybe you know this,
A cell phone jack has to accommodate headphones that have a mic in them. If you compare your regular ipod headphones to the iphone head phones you will see the iphone has 3 stripes on it and the ipod has 2 stripes. The extra section is to accomodate the microphone in your headset.
Usually the adapter drops one line internally for a mike in short adapter section and then passes on the other two lines for your standard headphones.
This is pretty much a know deal, i had a I730 and it was the same thing. Your iphone speakers probably will not work with your ipod.[/quote]
Damn you make a solid point Nathan! I didn’t even think of that. Any chance you can explain why Apple left out A2DP support? It’s pretty weird that one of the three key feature is iPod. Makes no sense why we shouldn’t be able to stream audio to a Bluetooth headset or Bluetooth compatible speakers.
My theory on why the A2DP was left out.
Theory 1# A2DP has been the baine of existance for many WM4 or WM5 users. For what ever the reason there were many pocket pc folks with crippled bluetooth. I believe most manufactures have a hard time implementing A2DP. Eventually once the PPC hit WM5 and WM6 the bluetooth features were slightly enabled. At the time bluetooth limitations were a combination of technical implementation and the carrier purposely crippling the device.
I strongly feel that this will eventually come out at a software upgrade, it would be silly not to enable this feature.
In general you will notice that there is no way to get a data file into the phone. You can’t pop out the SD card and load files onto and put back in.
If you keep that in mind, it’s also a reason why the bluetooth file transfer and many other profiles are neutered. Apple has locked down this phone very hard.
In this same instance the the only person that has access to the inner workings of your phone is Apple.
If you look at most Apple designs there tend to be a bit more restrictive for fiddling.
I was listening to the TWIT podcast today, and one of the participants volunteered that they had heard that A2DP functionality was indeed present on the iPhone – but that it would only be enabled by a firmware upgrade.
Something to think about, given the other promised software updates already anticipated.