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Its time for Wireless Zune Earbuds |
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Written by Kostas Tzounopoulos
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Thursday, 20 September 2007 |
 Kleer is a company with a technology for normal size earbuds which can connect wirelessly to adapters for music players, home stereos, PCs etc. Kleer has been in talks with Toshiba and Microsoft to support this technology on Zune 2 or a later product and have demonstrated it to Apple too. All of these while RCA just released a player supporting the technology, the RCA Jet Stream...
Back in the days of the CES 2007 (Consumer Electronics Show) I had posted about the Kleer technology. As we learn today from this Wired Blog post, Kleer has been in talks with Microsoft and Toshiba to support this technology "some time down the line" on Zune 2 or a later product. Kleer has also demonstrated its technology to Apple just to get as a reply, this technology has to prove at some extent itself on a number of other products first. Which is just exactly the case with Kleer expecting to have 10-15 products in this years CES. RCA had also demonstrated the Jet Stream with the wireless earbuds in CES 2007 while the product was released a few days ago. Here is a review on Gizmodo . According to this the sound quality is very good although the price of the low end Jet Stream with 1 GB memory, FM radio, video capabilities but a very small screen gets quite high at $139 because of the earbuds.
But what about Zune 2? Will Microsoft support this technology and generally wireless accessories? We have seen them in Xbox 360 (Wireless headset, wireless control pad) but not in Zune. Can you please do it before Apple releasing them for the iPod Touch to avoid the "me too" Microsoft syndrome? thanks :) Links:
RCA Jet Stream Homepage
Kleer
Wireless Headphones Possibly Coming to Zunes, IPods (Wired Blogs)
RCA Jet Stream MP3 Player Ditches the Headphone Cable (Wired Blogs)
First Hands-On With the RCA Jet Stream MP3 Player with Kleer Wireless Headphones (Gizmodo) Related articles:
Kleer: Wireless un-tethered earbuds
October 16th: Zune 2.0 release date?
The iPod Touch with WiFi announced
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