I
wanted to follow up on my previous blog, in regards to the iPhone 3.0 OS (which
you can read at: http://dongee.typepad.com/my_weblog/a-review-of-iphone-30-os/).
A few weeks ago, iPhone 3.0 (beta 5) was released and there have been a few noticeable improvements, one of which is the Bluetooth Audio (A2DP) feature.
For those of you like me, who love being freed from wires and enjoy listening to their music via Bluetooth Audio (A2DP), iPhone 3.0 (beta 5) has a few nice tweaks.
The previous version of the iPhone 3.0 required users to manually connect the Bluetooth device by tapping the Bluetooth logo, and selecting the appropriate device in a pop up. With iPhone 3.0 (beta 5), when your Bluetooth device is powered on, it will connect to your iPhone automatically. If you’re not sure it’s connected, view the bottom of your iPod screen (underneath the FF, PLAY, and Rewind controls) and it will display the device it’s connected to.
This feature is really nice for listening to Bluetooth Audio (A2DP) in our SUV (which is powered my Microsoft Sync). Once it syncs and plays a music selection (via streaming audio) and we leave the car, the music on the iPhone will automatically stop, and when we re-enter our car, it will pick up where the music left off.
One downside still exists with the Bluetooth Stereo feature, the fast forward/rewind controls on the bluetooth devices still don't work (Pause/Play, volume controls works fine) hopefully this will be fixed in the next release.
The Airplane Mode feature seems to work smoother now.
In the first release of iPhone 3.0 beta, when Airplane Mode was turned on while listening to music via Bluetooth, the Bluetooth connection severed, and when the Bluetooth was switched back on (on the iPhone) while still in Airplane Mode, the Bluetooth couldn’t re-sync to any of the paired devices. Now it does with no problems. Yeah.
Overall the performance seems better with iPhone 3.0 (beta 5). While emailing, texting and web browsing, switching to landscape mode transitions quicker and smoother.
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