According to bluetooth device users running iOS 4.1, the updated iOS is now fully AVRCP compatible. AVRCP is the mechanism which allows bluetooth headsets, or car dashboards to take full control of the audio functions of the devices they are connected to. Up until this release, users who paired their iPhones to their car to listen to music over bluetooth, needed to control playback via the iPod app. Now, with this full implementation of the bluetooth protocol, users can use the playback switches on their supported cars and headsets.
This new feature reportedly supports skipping forward, back, and volume. Prior to this beta, only volume control was accessible on third-party bluetooth devices. This is a nice addition to the operating system, and it furthers Apple’s push of safety. Instead of having to use their phone while driving to control their music, users can simply use their bluetooth headset or the controls built into their vehicles.
Why not open it all up?
Apple is for open standards, right?
That doesn’t mean that Apple shouldn’t keep some things to themselves.
Idiot
Yeah why not just cripple outside developers with less functionality that'll help the market and end users.
[...] we reported back in mid-July, iOS 4.1 brings full AVRCP bluetooth playback. This enhanced bluetooth protocol allows for greater [...]
Yay for full AVRCP support, that's what I say.
Along with Voice Commands (which I expect will soon be beefed up mightily following Apple's acquisition of Siri), my Plantronics Voyager 850 will have more irons in its "hands-free" fire.
I'm enjoying the progress of my iPhone "Tin Man" down the Yellow Brick Road of feature upgrades…
I am certainly glad to see this. I know I was hacked off at the fact that AVRCP wasn't supported with my 3G when I bought it in the spring of 2009 (I had bought a Motorola S9-HD with the intent of using it while exercising).
I appreciated the first attempt with 3.0 to support it, but again, the track controls not working was a discouragement.
Even more was the rental car with Ford's Sync, that could pair to the phone and stream the music, but fell short of anything else.
Now if they'd stop breaking 3rd Party tools for syncing music with every update, I'd be a happy camper.
what kind of car is that, on the picture above? brand and modell please.. BMW?
That's a Prius 3.
that's not a BMW car …