I've been bad mouthing the N-series from Nokia for quite awhile now. Now I'm no anti-Nokia zealot but I've always felt that Nokia is taking advantage of it's popularity and coming out with sub-standard mobiles [crippled might be a better term]. For example all Nokia mobiles except for the N8800 [which is not a music phone at all which is odd] does not have A2DP or AVRCP for that matter. They have mobiles with the capable Bluetooth chip but have elected to disable the profile and thus forcing the user to buy an 'enhancement' which is total bull crap IMO. Well I guess I can shut my piehole now as it seems that they have pulled their thumbs out of their assess and come up with 2 new models which support A2DP... Finally something not crippled in some way [hopefully] the N95 and 5300 series. It would be interesting to see how Nokia implements A2DP, I do hope it is way better than the way MS first did it in Windows Mobile devices [or did not do it for that matter]. They also have a brand new Stereo Bluetooth Headset BH-501 which bears an uncanny resemblance to i.Tech Blueband [they must have asked i.Tech to produce these for them]. Motorola's v3x has built in A2DP and AVRCP, I am unsure if the newer Sony Ericsson or Samsung [I know the WM smartphones from Samsung does] models supports these profiles as well. It is good to see that manufacturers are adding more and more features and in the end it is us the consumers who win and of course it is good to see less wires as well.
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