Go IPod Wireless with the Motorola D650 Bluetooth Dongle

With the advent of Bluetooth wireless technology for cellular phones, the Bluetooth headset has become ubiquitous. As such there is a need to be able to extend the usefulness of Bluetooth headsets to work with other sorts of portable devices such as laptop computers and portable music players such as the Apple iPod. Motorola, a communications leader for decades, has helped to extend the usability of Bluetooth headsets and Bluetooth technology by creating its new Motorola D650 Bluetooth Dongle for the Apple iPod.

"Dongle" is a general name for any sort of miscellaneous communications adapters, but lately the term has come to apply to adapters for Bluetooth technology to allow Bluetooth devices to be adapted to various types of non-Bluetooth capable technology. While USB Bluetooth dongles have been on the market for quite a while, the Motorola D650 iPod Dongle is unique insofar as it allows a Bluetooth headset to be used as headphones for the popular Apple iPod.

While users of the Motorola D650 iPod Bluetooth Dongle will be most satisfied if they use a pair of stereo Bluetooth headphones, many standard monaural Bluetooth headsets are now able to function for streaming audio as well. A good example would be the Jabra BT8040 Bluetooth earpiece. While the earpiece itself is mono, it is able to combine the left and right channels from the stereo audio files into a single audio stream. This allows one to hear the full stereo sound but instead as mono. Any Bluetooth earpiece that is designed for streaming audio should work similarly with the Motorola D650 iPod Bluetooth Dongle.

One very nice result to using the Motorola d650 iPod Dongle is that it is possible to listen to your own personal music collection privately through a very professional and acceptable Bluetooth earpiece. This has the happy result that one can listen to music privately in public forums without having to worry about seeming unprofessional or distracted at work or other public places.

The Motorola D650 iPod Bluetooth Dongle is very easy to configure, and the process is similar to that of any other Bluetooth device. Simple put both devices in pairing mode and set them to recognize each other according to the manufacturer's directions for your Bluetooth headset or earpiece. It is purely an exercise in following directions, and you should be up and running with streaming wireless audio from your Bluetooth headset in no time flat.

In conclusion, if you own an Apple iPod and a Bluetooth headset, the Motorola D650 iPod Bluetooth Dongle is the perfect solution to extending the usefulness and stealthiness of your iPod. While it is getting more and more acceptable to listen to music in public places, the Motorola D650 iPod Bluetooth Dongle is the perfect solution to those times and places when listening to music in public is unacceptable.