AirPhones Allows iPhone to Serve as Wireless Headphones

Now all I need is something that allows my iPhone to function as a Bluetooth headset for my phone that actually has service and I'll be in business.

Only works on Intel Macs... that leaves ALOT of people not being able to use it.

That's a very specific need... kind of defeats the point of "wireless" by having to plug into something, but whatever. I'd pick it up for .99 maybe, but not 4.99... there are too many other apps that are much better for that price.

Maybe I'm not wide awake yet, but why not just use Simplify?

Maybe I'm not wide awake yet, but why not just use Simplify?

I haven't installed the Mac server app yet, but from the description, it seems that this will stream more than just iTunes. I plan to test this with the SiriusXM StarPlayr app (seeing whereas the app won't be approved by Apple or SiriusXM any time soon).

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So I guess this is basically the opposite of Remote. It looks pretty cool though.

Theoretically, couldn't the Airphones app be used as a cheap way to turn an iPhone or iPod Touch into an AirPort Express-type of music-streaming device?

If Airphones allows the user to stream music over wifi into an iPhone/Touch, then you could simply connect the iPhone/Touch's headphone-out port into an audio-in port on any stereo in your house, resulting in the music from your Mac streaming into your iPhone and out of your stereo speakers. Right?

If so, then $4.99 is a lot more cost-effective than buying a $99 AirPort Express. I mean, sure, the AirPort Express does a lot of other things as well (it's a wifi router/extender, printer-server, etc.) -- but if you already have a wifi router in your house and you just wanted an AirPort Express to feed music from, say, your iMac in one room to your entertainment system in another room, then maybe Airphones would be a better alternative.

To make this really convenient, I guess the next question would be whether or not you could use Airphones simultaneously with the iPhone/Touch iTunes REMOTE app, so that you could control the music on your Mac from another room while also streaming it to your stereo speakers using Airphones, all via an iPhone.

I'm guessing that the current iPhone/Touch one-app-running-at-a-time limitation would keep this scenario from working. But with the next generation iPhone (expected around June 2009), maybe it would work.

I've been hoping that Apple would build this type of music-streaming-coupled-with-Mac-remote functionality into a new software release. And I'm surprised that the Airfoil guys haven't built an app along these lines (so we can use Airfoil on a Mac to stream music to an iPhone/iPod Touch in the same way Airfoil works with AirPort Express). Apple and Airfoil both seem well-positioned to offer robust solutions for this type of wifi streaming and remote media control. But maybe Airphones will fit the bill instead.

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pair this with "remote tap" and running this in the background and we could essentially watch any video type on our iphone streamed from the base computer. Granted the quality won't be awesome, but proof of concept is there!

This is great, but I'd love a airfoil speaker program. That was I can use my mac to broadcast music to all of my airtunes and to my iphone docked to a bose sounddock.

I dont really see the point if all it is streaming music from your computer to iphone/ipod over a LAN. Just play it off your computer or other better speakers.

Using it as a makeshift Aiport is pretty neat, but if you want to skip songs your SOL and have to walk over to it. And for receiving calls.

Now if you could do this over a larger network, then that'd be something.