iPhone + handsfree Bluetooth with your Mac?

I’m one of those people that’s completely on the iPhone pill, without having even touched one, because I know that it looks incredible from all of the demos.

I’ve figured out how to do some cool stuff with my Treo, and even figured out Bluetooth and my Treo (syncing on Bluetooth is slow, but kind of nifty). The handsfree abilities of Bluetooth are even better, but I’m thinking, if you can use a Moto or Jabra headset with your cell phone or Mac via Bluetooth, why not both?

Even better, this is what I’m really thinking would be awesome with the iPhone: you’re working away at your office desk, with your iPhone resting on your desk next to the keyboard, in or out of its dock. You’re listening to iTunes through your Mac, with your amazing Sony/Yamaha/Bose/Other-overrated-brand speaker system.

A call comes in, and the following things happen:

1. iTunes pauses/drops the volume…
2. The iPhone ring tone plays through your Mac and speaker system, and a user interface appears on-screen, with the option of answering and whatnot, as it appears on the iPhone screen.
3. You can click “answer” on-screen, or tap “answer” on the iPhone. Doing so would route the output audio to your Mac, via Bluetooth or the sync cable. (I’m sure that Bluetooth can work either way, and the sync cable would have more than enough bandwidth to handle higher-fidelity audio than Bluetooth, provided it paused all other sync operations.)
4. You could choose between the iPhone’s microphone or the Mac microphone for input audio to talk to your friend. I’m sure that Apple could develop some sort of software gate, if they haven’t already, in order to prevent feedback/echo/audio loopback.
5. Do all of your awesome iPhone-ish call awesomeness with the onscreen UI on your Mac, or on the iPhone.
6. When the call is complete, audio input/output would return to normal computer actions, and iTunes would resume normal activity. The iPhone could also return to syncing, sleeping, or whatever it was doing before the call came in.

If set up correctly, this would be an amazing way to handsfree with an iPhone while at your desk. If Apple could build this into the OS/iTunes for free, I’d be sold.

Talk about GTD, huh?

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