There’s a bug in the 1.1.1 firmware that lets you stream audio through bluetooth. It’s not quite Stereo Bluetooth. It’s essentially mono Bluetooth, but it brings some functionality, and may be useful for podcasts and the like. To get audio through Bluetooth:
- pair your Bluetooth, if you haven’t done so already
- open Visual voicemail
- select ‘Audio’ at top right. If it doesn’t say ‘Audio,’ reconsider step 1.
- It will bring up a dialogue box to choose sound output. Select your Bluetooth headset
- Presto! Enjoy your audio through both the speaker and your Bluetooth headset.
Apple has posted their Human Interface Guidelines (HIG, PDF link) for programming for the iPhone. What this means is that they’ve completed the rules and guidelines for how they expect you, the iPhone user, to interact with applications on the device. It also means that now that they have interface guidelines, they can begin focusing on building the software they need for native third party applications and not web applications. Yes, I said it; worst of all, I believe it. Even worse, I think this is the big news of the weekend, even more than bricked iPhones. You’ll have to brave the cut for why.
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