iphone music over bluetooth headset

In my previous blog post when I wrote about bluetooth file transfer in iphone using iBluetooth, I mentioned that we cannot listen to the music or video in the bluetooth headset. I explored more about this topic and am happy to find that I am wrong. There are couple of tricks to workaround this limitation. It is possible to listen to the iphone music or video in the bluetooth headset. The trick here is to exploit the capability of iphone to transfer audio during calls over bluetooth. The beauty is that these tricks does not need any hardware or software changes. The following tricks assumes that you have already coupled your bluetooth headset to your iphone.

The first trick is simple but not practical to use. As the phone can export audio over bluetooth during active call, the trick is to play the music while you are active on the call. While you are on the call if you press home button, it will give access to the main screen when you can select ipod and play the music. But the problem is that the music will stop if the call ends. So, this is not practical as you do not want to burn out the phone minutes.

The second trick is to exploit voice mail. You do not need to be on active call to use this. Go the voicemail tab in the phone menu. If you have voice mail enabled and configured, you will see a button for audio source. Tap it and select your bluetooth headset as the source. Then open the ipod and start playing your music. You will hear it in your headset.

The third trick is the geeky way. It reminds me of the days we used to jailbreak by making a fake call. As an active call is needed to have voice over bluetooth, we make a fake call. If you dail *#301#, the iphone will call itself. You can answer the call and it will be active till you end it. As you are calling yourself, you do not pay for the minutes. But there is a catch. You cannot get calls while you are on this unless you have call waiting enabled. See this video which explains the procedure.

Iriver spinn: music player with touch screen and spin wheel

It seems that touch screen for gadgets is becoming standard after iphone showed it to the world. Engadget is running an article about the new music player from iriver named spinn. It has a cool user interface sporting a touch screen and a spin wheel. See the video that recently surfaced giving a demo of this cool gadget.

Besides the common features, it has bluetooth capability, TV, picture browser etc. This is not yet available world wide. It is going to be released in south korea shortly. Moreover, this is not going to be easy on the pocket. Pre-order pricing indicates that an 8GB model costs $299, which is same as 8G ipod touch model.

Music player that dances to the music

Do not have a dance partner when you wanted to dance ? Take a look at this new cute and compact sony music player named "Rolly" that can dance to the music. It has some cool features built into it.
- Ofcourse the first thing is that it plays music
- It generates motion according to the music
- It has builtin sensors to detect and avoid obstacles.
- It can be controlled with a bluetooth remote
- It can be used as a wireless speaker over bluetooth(including mobile phone)
- Customizable motion

It is not yet available for the worldwide consumers. Its is going to be released only in japan in setptember this year. You have to see this video to appreciate the grace in its dance. An official video is also available, but it is a little bit boring. You may want to take a look at the google-transalted english page. Try browsing around the japanese links to see more details.