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iPod earphones,how power hungry is wireless?
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Nov 3, 2004, 02:29 AM
 
When iPod goes wireless , how feasable will wireless ear-phones be?

Will they be bulky to account for power cells?

Would lithium rechargables be the way to go?

I have never bought portable players for myself (going back to the very 1st Sony Walkman)as I find the wire to the earphones very restricting.

Wireless earphones would be a "buy now" feature for me.
     
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Nov 3, 2004, 02:50 AM
 
I'd be more concerned about sound quality at first. Even bt headsets aren't great.

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Nov 3, 2004, 08:09 AM
 
Wireless headphones. I don't understand why people want them. It's like wireless mice equally useless. Altough there is a difference, wireless mice are as good as the wired versions. Wireless headphones all suck. And wireless BT headphones are as good as impossible (today).

"When iPod goes wireless" not any time soon. And I don't see the point of it being wireless. Unless it's wireless firewire.
     
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Nov 3, 2004, 09:47 AM
 
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Powaqqatsi:
[B]I don't understand why people want them.[QUOTE]


The reason I want them is that the wire tangles too often. Now that really does suck, cordless phones, cordless remote controls are superior to wired ones. Quality is really about bandwidth and compression, just a matter of sorting out a decent algorithm


[QUOTE]"When iPod goes wireless" not any time soon. And I don't see the point of it being wireless. Unless it's wireless firewire. [QUOTE]

Airport express=a pointer to iPod going wireless, surely. Wireless-Firewire? tell Apple to get on it right away and I'll buy the finished product
     
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Nov 3, 2004, 12:28 PM
 
Yeah there were some rumors about wireless firewire at some point.
     
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Nov 3, 2004, 12:59 PM
 
Originally posted by apollo11:
cordless phones, cordless remote controls are superior to wired ones. [/B]
i think in these examples of course wireless will be a lot better. imo, i it because the distance from the two objects is large. wherever you are to the tv. cordless phone to the basestation. but it is not like you are wanting to leave your ipod on the other side of the house and still listen to music off it. if this is the case then a whole other issue comes about. how are you going to change songs, etc.

my ipod is always in my pocket or my backpack and i use either the wired remote that came with it or the wireless remoteremote i bought.
due to the fact that is always with me i don't see the point of wireless headphones.

i understand the cable issue, but mine have never given me a problem.
     
   
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