Thinking about buying a stereophonic Bluetooth headset for your iPhone? A word of advise – DON’T DO IT. Don’t waste your money expecting that your new Bluetooth headset will work seamlessly with your iPhone as it had worked before – streaming beautiful music from your laptop or Bluetooth enabled MP3 player to your audiophilory senses.
I coughed up about $40 plus shipping for an LG HBS200 stereo headset three weeks ago only to find out that it only works making and receiving calls. So much for the stereophonic portion of it. Dang! The iPod and YouTube functionalities of the phone will not stream sound to the device.
Pairing the headset and the iPhone was a breeze and I thought I was on my way to a wire-free listening experience while running on my threadmill. Afterall, I’ve managed to yank my iPhone a couple of times off the front panel of the threadmill where it is sitting because of the dangling wire in the way of my swinging arms, and I thought a wireless device was worth the investment.
I spent hours and hours pouring over the manual and scouring the internet for a solution. And I found this: IT DOESN’T WORK.
The bottomline is that in respect to Bluetooth technology Apple probably made the decision to make the iPhone just that: a phone. Or maybe they want to capture the market by making sure no other Bluetooth devices will work fully on their phones except their own hardware.
A typical Apple business paradigm.
That’s why I never liked Apple products. But, hey, who am I kidding? The iPhone is the best damned cellphone I ever had. And now I can make phone calls in stereo.
