AirPhones: Wireless Audio Streaming From Mac to iPhone
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We’ve been complaining for years about the lack of streaming from the iPhone to Apple’s Airport Express. The little white Wi-Fi box can extend your network and wirelessly receive music from your Mac or PC, passing it through an old-fashioned cable on to your speakers.
It would seem, then, that you should be able to send tunes to the speakers from the iPhone or iPod Touch. You can’t. In one of its frequent but inexplicable arbitrary cripplings, Apple has ruled that thou cannot do this, despite it being technically feasible.
AirPhones doesn’t quite fix this — the iPhone app effectively does the opposite, but it is a neat way to replace hardware with software (if you already have the phone, that is). The $5 application (Intel Mac only right now) sits on the iPhone. A companion app (free) is installed on your Mac and beams audio over the network to the iPhone. You can then either hook up headphones (kind of pointless) or jack it into your stereo. Instant wireless audio streaming, without having to buy Apple’s crippled box.
Better yet, AirPhones also works with movies, something the Airport Express can’t do without the excellent Airfoil software from Rogue Amoeba, which costs $25.
Product page [AirPhones via TUAW]
See Also:
- 5 iPhone Applications That Replace Your Tools
- Apple TV Has Airtunes Built In
- Griffin Airbase: A Display Plinth for the Airport Express
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