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...iPod, you?ll notice that the adapters are nearly identical. In fact, if you already own the wireless headphone system, you can save $70 and just pick up a receiver for $80. After fiddling with a few buttons, you?ll be able to use it for your home stereo and your headphones. You can also put receivers in different parts of the house, so as you walk from room to room your music follows. Since the adapter itself consists of only a stereo plug, like the ones on typical headphones, it can be used with any iPod-including the Shuffle...
...rather a 2.4GHz Bluetooth signal, it can maintain a nice full sound at distances up to 30 feet. You can hear a little bit of digital hiss at the high end, but only when you?re nearby-near enough to just plug your iPod directly into your stereo. This is for the times when you are, say, working in the kitchen. You want full control over your tunes but can?t be hovering around the living-room sound system playing...
...arrival of the Motorola ROKR-aka "the iTunes phone"-has triggered a hullabaloo about music-playing phones. Turns out, lots of them do it. This month, Verizon Wireless introduced a couple of phones with stereo speakers that support V Cast news and entertainment, and both of them-the Samsung SPH-a950 and the LG VX9800-play MP3s...
...music sounds pretty good. You can use a special pair of headphones with a microphone built in (sold separately), but it's best to use the VX9800 as a mini boombox. The clarity of the stereo speakers is much better than expected, perhaps a little tinny with not a lot of midrange, but plenty loud, with no distortion, even at peak volume...
...Sprint and Verizon now have them, and Cingular will soon. Verizon may be the first to launch a wireless music store in the U.S., as it is already selling phones capable of tapping into the network. One to watch for: the new Samsung SCH-a950, a clamshell phone with stereo speakers and a thumbwheel for cuing up songs fast...