Wireless, Wifi, Bluetooth and MP3 Players

There are a couple of uses of wireless technology in mp3 players that may interest you, or that you may wish to avoid!

Firstly and more commonly integrated is the use of bluetooth to transmit mp3 music wirelessly to a listening device - headphones or speakers. The benefit of this is that you can avoid the tangle and be a little more mobile than you may otherwise be.
For home use this can be especially beneficial, you can hoover up without needing to worry about knocking the metal tube against your valuable hardware. This will also allow the player to be plugged into power - possibly for a recharge before your next excursion out.
The biggest advantage has to be for home entertainment as you could have several sets of speakers around the home tuned into the same broadcast device and playing your fave tunes from the bedroom to the kitchen. You will need compatible receivers - either headphones or speakers and these will also require power.

The second use of wireless is very new and allows the mp3 player to connect to a wireless lan, so if you have wireless at home you can connect to your pc from anywhere else in the house and download the music files you want to play quickly and easily. For some people this will be the ideal solution to a major bugbear, but for most this is a little useless. Most people with wireless will already have a wireless laptop so their connection is already mobile, also the power used by the device while wirless will drain the battery much faster than just playing music. If you aren't sure how this would work for you then it probably wouldn't.

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