Thecuriousminds at iFixituncovereda Broadcom Bluetooth chipset inside the innards of an iPodtouch2G, something that was withheld from the general public during the device'slauncha Broadcom BCM4325 Bluetooth 2.1+EDR chip. (That's thesilverrectangle in the middle of the top circuit board there.)
The iPod touch's Bluetooth chipset supports 2.1+EDR. We don't know for sure yet if it has A2DP, which would let you use stereo headphonesand be another hardware one-up over theiPhonebesides ">the built-in Nike+ functions. Just to be totally accurate, the BCM4235 also does WiFi -- and Nike+iPod has been called a "proprietary 802.11 protocol" in the past, so it's evenlesslikely that it's there for actual Bluetooth usage.
why does a ipod touch have a Bluetooth in it andiphone3g doesn't ?Thecuriousminds at iFixituncovereda Broadcom Bluetooth chipset inside the innards of an iPodtouch2G, something that was withheld from the general public during the device'slauncha Broadcom BCM4325 Bluetooth 2.1+EDR chip. (That's thesilverrectangle in the middle of the top circuit board there.)
The iPod touch's Bluetooth chipset supports 2.1+EDR. We don't know for sure yet if it has A2DP, which would let you use stereo headphonesand be another hardware one-up over theiPhonebesides ">the built-in Nike+ functions. Just to be totally accurate, the BCM4235 also does WiFi -- and Nike+iPod has been called a "proprietary 802.11 protocol" in the past, so it's evenlesslikely that it's there for actual Bluetooth usage.
why does a ipod touch have a Bluetooth in it andiphone3g doesn't ?