Rossi01
07-26-2005, 10:26 AM
So we may finally have our Bluetooth headphones? :cool:
CSR Brings Bluetooth to Stereo Headphones for iPod
July 8, 2005 -- CSR has announced its BlueCore silicon is now inside iPod compatible stereo headphones from three companies: iTech, WiGear and Airlogic. All three companies now use BlueCore for Bluetooth stereo headphones (and plug-in adaptors) that have been designed to work with Apple's iPod as well as other MP3 players.
The digital signal processing (DSP) architecture built into CSR's BlueCore technology means CSR offers the only Bluetooth silicon with native support for MP3. This is said to result in better design functionality and up to twice the battery life.
CSR's DSP inside the BlueCore IC is highly optimized to run audio Codecs including the basic SBC (sub-band Codec). More importantly however, CSR's DSP architecture has the processor throughput to support MP3, AAC and other proprietary Codecs, with power consumption figures low enough for battery powered applications. Competing solutions, CSR claims, only offer support for SBC and consume twice as much power as CSR's 95mW, making them unsuitable for such applications.
BlueCore is said to be the world's first and only Bluetooth silicon to support and integrate MP3 and other highly compressive Codecs. Because of this, customers for CSR's stereo headphones or headsets benefit from enhanced audio quality and improved wireless operating range compared to those using first-generation designs that support only SBC.
Only Bluetooth headsets designed using CSR's BlueCore can wirelessly connect to a Bluetooth mobile phone and a music player simultaneously. When the user receives a phone call the device will automatically mute the sound and connect to the mobile phone. At the end of the call the original music connection will resume automatically.
CSR Brings Bluetooth to Stereo Headphones for iPod
July 8, 2005 -- CSR has announced its BlueCore silicon is now inside iPod compatible stereo headphones from three companies: iTech, WiGear and Airlogic. All three companies now use BlueCore for Bluetooth stereo headphones (and plug-in adaptors) that have been designed to work with Apple's iPod as well as other MP3 players.
The digital signal processing (DSP) architecture built into CSR's BlueCore technology means CSR offers the only Bluetooth silicon with native support for MP3. This is said to result in better design functionality and up to twice the battery life.
CSR's DSP inside the BlueCore IC is highly optimized to run audio Codecs including the basic SBC (sub-band Codec). More importantly however, CSR's DSP architecture has the processor throughput to support MP3, AAC and other proprietary Codecs, with power consumption figures low enough for battery powered applications. Competing solutions, CSR claims, only offer support for SBC and consume twice as much power as CSR's 95mW, making them unsuitable for such applications.
BlueCore is said to be the world's first and only Bluetooth silicon to support and integrate MP3 and other highly compressive Codecs. Because of this, customers for CSR's stereo headphones or headsets benefit from enhanced audio quality and improved wireless operating range compared to those using first-generation designs that support only SBC.
Only Bluetooth headsets designed using CSR's BlueCore can wirelessly connect to a Bluetooth mobile phone and a music player simultaneously. When the user receives a phone call the device will automatically mute the sound and connect to the mobile phone. At the end of the call the original music connection will resume automatically.