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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: My first post...Can the Jukebox do bluetooth?Re: My first post...Can the Jukebox do bluetooth?
From: Chris Muth <rockbox_at_muth.cc>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:22:24 -0600 If we feel like being politically incorrect (which I do), USB is this. There are two kinds of USB interfaces; the Master and the Slave. It makes sense, the master says what to do, and the slave does it. Period! -Chris On 2/12/04 at 1:25 PM Fred Maxwell wrote: >There are two kinds of USB interfaces; host and device. The USB >interface in your PC is a host interface. The USB interface in your >ARCHOS Jukebox, an iPod, a digital camera, a mouse, or a keyboard is a >"device" interface. So is the interface in a USB Bluetooth adapter. You >cannot hook two USB devices together and have them talk to one another. > >The Bluetooth wireless communications scheme has a theoretical maximum >data transfer of 723 kbps. In the real world, it's going to be a lot >less. That's not a lot of bandwidth when you're downloading MP3 files. >Compare that to the 12mbps of even USB 1.1 and it's rather weak. >Compared to 480mbps of USB 2.0, it's downright pathetic. > >Regards, >Fred Maxwell > >Ready, Matthew wrote: > >> The future of mobile computing and multimedia is going to be bluetooth >> enabled hard drives. These devices will enable everything from pda >> watches, cell phones, and ear pieces to have access to high quality >> databases of multimedia content. The question I have is who will be >> first? Apple or someone else? Ipod is apparently going bluetooth soon. >> I was wondering, is it possible to make the Archos Jukebox do >> bluetooth networking using a simply USB bluetooth dongle? There are >> tons of them available cheap such as this one at walmart: >> >> >_http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=2432046&sourceid=1500000000000000624080_ >> ><http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=2432046&sourceid=1500000000000000624080> >> >> Anyways, that’s my question. I am looking forward to the replies! >> >> Matt >> >> www.wisdomproject.net >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>_______________________________________________ >>http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-02-12 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |