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This is a prayer for Sony Ericsson and the mobile phone industry and their commitment to consolidate the latter as the all-devices-in-one-in-my-pocket industry. It is unacceptable that the last device to jump into the wireless fashion is the stereo headphones. Everything seems to be wireless but the most annoying cableful accesory of our MP3 players and MP3 mobile phones. Did i just say MP3 players? Well, actually, you now CAN turn your iPod or standard audio player into a bluetooth enabled device with wireless headphones, with the Bluetake BT420 Bluetooth Hi-Fi Sports Headphone Kit. It consists of a dongle that plugs to your player's 3.5mm jack, receives the audio from the player and transmits it to a easily paired couple of wireless headphones! Now for the mobile phone related part of the story, it also has a microphone to answer calls from your in-the-pocket Sony Ericsson, through either the Handsfree or Headset profile. But what if you want to listen to the FM radio or MP3 stored in that K700? Unfortunately no phone is able to transmit other sound than the calls sound because their lack of the Advanced Audio Distribution Bluetooth Profile (A2D). YET. You can still connect the dongle to a P910/P900/P800 using a 3.5 to 2.5mm adaptor, but the revolution will happen when the A2P profile comes in a MP3 enabled mobile phone. And the first mobile phone brand to get this... will be a winner. After leadership in imaging, SE, why not do it into audio?

Buy it at 156€ in Expansys: http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=114076 (if you do it, remember to put clubsonyericsson in the "where did you hear from us" field and i owe you a beer )

Review of the Bluetaje BT420 in Pdacorps.com: http://www.pdacorps.com/default.asp?key=pages/iPhono.htm

Official product page: http://www.bluetake.com/Products/BT420EX.htm