Monday, June 22, 2009

A2DP on iPhone with P590

Just tried to connect my Plantronics P590 to my iPhone 3G that I updated last week to 3.0.
I am running this for 20 minutes now, and so far I love it in total.
Some points I noticed:
  • Quite some bass coming from the P590.
  • There are some problems, some songs show skipping like an old CD player, and even more enerving is a pitch-down effect (not good for musical ears).I found in some forums that there are indications that this only happens for self-imported tracks and not for iTunes tracks bought on iTunes? I would find this a weird selection effect and would propose that this is caused by differences between mp3 (less efficient) and ac3 (more efficient)?
  • Volume control is after pairing with headset blocked on iPhone and solely done via the headset
  • With the P590 next and previous track selection does NOT work.
  • Even high data rate songs in m4a format (lossless) play nicely via the headset. They /might/ sound a bit better, but that might be wishful thinking as the bluetooth encoder might reduce that quality all away
So overall I am very pleased that this is finally in the iPhone OS, pity that next track does not work with the P590, but I am looking anyway for a new Stereo Bluetooth headset, want to try in-ear plugs this time.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Bug in Project 2007

When formatting the Gantt Chart Bar Styles in a way, that something is put on top of the bar, so that the height of rows have to be expanded for it to make space, the bars become invisible in the print-out.