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Regulators O.K. Apple's Bluetooth headset for sale alongside iPhone

Federal regulators this week gave Apple Inc. the go-ahead to begin selling its seldom-mentioned Bluetooth headset alongside iPhone later this month.

Documents released Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission, which omit photographs and a user manual at the iPod maker's request, show the device to carry model number A1221 and FCC ID BCGA1221.

Apple has said little about the pen cap-like accessory since introducing it back in January alongside its first-ever mobile handset — iPhone. Similarly, it has not said how much it plans to charge for the device or precisely when it will be available.

The Cupertino-based company also announced a second iPhone accessory, a wired headset with built-in microphone, that it also plans market alongside iPhone.

Again, details surrounding pricing and availability of that product have not been made public.


Apple's iPhone Bluetooth headset as shown At Macworld Expo (more photos).
Apple Booth: Macworld 2007
Apple's iPhone Bluetooth headset as shown At Macworld Expo (more photos).
Apple Booth: Macworld 2007
Apple's iPhone Bluetooth headset as shown At Macworld Expo (more photos).
iPhone headset
Apple's iPhone Bluetooth headset as shown in FCC test reports.
iPhone headset



35 Comments

tedndi 21 Years · 1866 comments

NEW HARDWARE AT LAST!!!

....IT ISN'T MULTICORE? WTF!!

apple is doomed.

tsvisser 19 Years · 36 comments

it does not have native multi-core support... rather an aggregate processing feature that allows units to be used in parallel... sort of a dual-mono-core for a combined stereo feature when using two. engineers have not figured out yet how to program the process manager to distribute the workload across more than two units at this time, give the ZIF-2 socket of the user's MELONv1.0 interface orb.

buck 19 Years · 293 comments

Will it enable wireless bluetooth squirting?

allblue 18 Years · 392 comments

Quote:
Originally Posted by tsvisser

it does not have native multi-core support... rather an aggregate processing feature that allows units to be used in parallel... sort of a dual-mono-core for a combined stereo feature when using two. engineers have not figured out yet how to program the process manager to distribute the workload across more than two units at this time, give the ZIF-2 socket of the user's MELONv1.0 interface orb.

Ah yes but you're forgetting that the ZIF-2 correlates dynamically utilising the vertical plane, therefore allowing access to the orb via the multi-dimensional Gunter switching system. Not that I'm an expert or anything...

solipsism 19 Years · 25701 comments

Quote:
Originally Posted by AppleInsider

The Cupertino-based company also announced a second iPhone accessory, a wired headset with built-in microphone, that it also plans market alongside iPhone

I thought this headphone/mic was included with the iPhone.