Stereo Bluetooth support for the iPhone

In case you have already ventured into getting a Stereo Bluetooth headset for your iPhone or you are considering getting one, here is what you need to know:-

• The original iPhone (1st generation) does not support the Stereo Bluetooth profile (AD2P), even if you upgrade to the latest OS 3.x, which means that only iPhone 3G and 3GS supports the AD2P profile (and the iPod touch 2nd generation)
• You have to upgrade your iPhone to 3.1 firmware to be able to use the Voice Control from your Stereo Bluetooth headset and with that you also get a better WIFI performance on the device while using the Bluetooth headset.
• The AVRCP profile is not 100% supported. The AVRCP provides advanced controls commands directly from the Bluetooth headset including: Pause, Play, Stop, Next, Previous . Currently the Next, and Previous commands are not supported. Which means while you are listening on your Bluetooth headset you will not be able to skip to the next track or move back to the previous track from your headset, you would have to control it directly on your iPhone.

Overall, I have been using the Backbeat 906, and I have been happy with it’s audio quality so far on the iPhone 3GS, especially after I updated to 3.1.

If you can tolerate the limitations mentioned above, getting the stereo Bluetooth headset is very much worth it.

 

Dropped calls and AT&T

It’s getting to the point where within the first two minutes of every call I make 3-4 miles from where I live is dropped. It’s official now that AT&T 3G infrastructure can not handle the load put out by the data usage of the iPhone. At the same time, we are still being charged for a broken service.

Since all of this is official now, and AT&T already publicized it’s problem with it’s network on YouTube, why are we still charged 100% for the the broken service. At least AT&T should not charge for any dropped call.

 

Get Safari 4 Beta if you can’t wait for Google Chrome for the Mac

Safari 4 Beta appears to be as fast or even faster than Chrome (on Windows), so if you are tired of waiting for Chrome on the Mac to become available, it will be worth checking out the new Safari 4 Beta.

 

My Live account was hijacked !

It is very scary what just happened to my Microsoft Live account, but some how my contact list was hijacked and an email message was sent to my entire contact list. This is very scary! The email message was sent in my name, however, it did not include my signature.

The only way this could have happened, is through me using public wifi’s at Starbucks. This is only my speculation. Right now, I have set my password to automatically expire every 72 hours until I figure out what’s the story

Any other recommendations?

 

My first Mac

Finally, I broke down and purchased a white MacBook. I made this purchase mainly to do software development on it, and also to use it as a light weight laptop alternative. I have been using a heavy 15.4 inch Dell, which I have been happy with, except for it’s size.

My MacBook came with a 2 GB of RAM, 160 GB HD, with a disappointing Intel Graphics Card (Intel GMA X3100). I did not want to get the MBP yet, as this is my first Mac System, so I wanted to ween my self slowly into the world of Apple.

Also, I have installed Vista Ultimate on it using Bootcamp 1.2 and to my surprise, I could not believe how easy the whole process. I am impressed with the performance of Vista running on the MacBook. Right now I am still learning my way around the Mac OS X.

The first applications I have installed so far:
- Office 2008 for Mac
- iPhone SDK
- Firefox
- Live Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger

…and I am still looking to what other applications to install.

 

Symptoms you are addicted to your iPhone

1. You automatically assume that every screen is a touch screen: Many times I reach to my computer screen to use the same gesture I use on my iPhone to scroll up and down
2. Can’t sleep without it
3. Can’t stop playing with the iPhone even though you already checked everything on it less than 2 minutes ago
4. You can’t stop using the built in stopwatch
5. You don’t let your iPhone ever go out of charge no matter what.

 

Android based phones.

GPhone is a mobile phone running Google’s Android operating System, with 50 top applications already been announced. Check it out!

Link

Other Video Link: GPhone early preview protoype

 

Is Vista a failure?

I am getting sick and tired of reading about how failure Vista is. Vista being late is one thing, but stating that Vista is failure and XP is better, is totally wrong. I have Vista running on four of PCs running in my house and all are running very well. And no I don’t have the latest hardware on all four of my PCs

This notion that Microsoft talking about Windows7 indicates Vista failure is also wrong. Microsoft have indicated regardless how success the current OS is that they will have a two year release cycle.

In all these reports that talk about how bad Vista is, never mention any specifics why Vista is a failure. It seems that picking on Vista without providing any details is becoming a popular trend

 

Multi-touch in Windows 7 demo

Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7

I love the Mapping Application multi-touch experience, and the piano part is amazing.

 

I am shopping for a new light weight laptop, any suggestion?

Please post your ideas here