Guest squall Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 As ever there has been a huge number of press releases coming out of ceBIT in Germany. This one caught my eye, music over bluetooth with 8 hours battery life, and remote controls, if a phone could ever take the place of an ipod this kind of technology is key. Mobile phone OEMs can bring wireless stereo music to market faster HANOVER, GERMANY - CeBIT 2005 /Send2Press Newswire/ -- Impulsesoft, the world's leading Bluetooth stereo solution company, announced the release of iWALTZ - Impulsesoft Wireless Audio Suite for Windows® Mobile. iWALTZ enables OEMs to bring multimedia phones quicker to market by leveraging Microsoft's Bluetooth infrastructure and Impulsesoft's market-leading technology for wireless multimedia. iWALTZ enables multimedia mobile phones using MS Smartphone® and MS Pocket-PC Phone®-Edition to stream music over Bluetooth, seamlessly switch between music and voice calls, and display rich media related information on wireless accessories. iWALTZ contains audio and control middleware that enables an integrated Bluetooth audio experience - wireless streaming of CD quality music between mobile phones and stereo headset, remote display capability on a stereo headset, switch between music and voice call on the same device. iWALTZ is based on Impulsesoft's patent-pending Bluetooth audio-subsystem architecture for mobile phones and is built over the Microsoft® Bluetooth protocol stack. The middleware leverages Impulsesoft driven open standard GMCPTM (Generic Media Control Protocol) for rich content related information access over Bluetooth. iWALTZ consists of Bluetooth audio (A2DP) and remote control (AVRCP) profiles, ARM9 and TI C55x DSP optimized Sub-band encoder (SBC), audio drivers, Active-X controls for play list, remote control and ID3 tag information from Windows Media Player®, support for call logs, phone-book and SMS access for remote display. The audio middleware interacts with the existing voice profile (handsfree) from Microsoft for delivering an integrated Bluetooth experience for voice and music. iWALTZ is available today on WIN CE 4.2 and WIN CE 5.0 platforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tudor Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 I think this would be awesome because it moves the digital-analog conversion to the headphones, potentially improving the quality. On the other hand, I wonder why don't they release an mp3 player all built in a set of headphones? They have to put batteries for Bluetooth and DAC - why not put the storage there as well and use the phone only as a remote control? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mirpy1 Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 (edited) they have http://bluetooth.weblogsinc.com/entry/2487485526226928/ dont know how much they are though. :D carphone warehouse £199 Edited March 12, 2005 by mirpy1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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