OK, I'll recant... when A2DP works using the base sound system. IE: I pair up my headset and sound... just... works...

when I see that, I will personally hand write an apology to Nokia and each person in this thread and mail it to each respective person/company.

somehow I don't think I will ever have to break out my pen and pad.

the thing isn't the device, really the thing is a rather nice little piece of engineering. I will admit that of all the PDAs I have owned it is the best...

However; I feel it quite insulting that I was promised this simple thing and it has yet to materialize... in fact it has been promised for over two years... nothing.

I am not a programmer, I have absoultly no programming skills what so ever, but in my LACK of skill I DO know what the overall problem is. It's not Nokia, It's not bluez, or the applications... it's the Linux sound architecture. This is the ONE THING that Microshaft has gotten right.

Please do not assume by the following that I am a windows fan. I'm not, I loathe Microsoft and all they make... the only thing I own that is a product of Microsoft is my Xbox, and please note, I modded it to run Linux!

In Windows, whatever sound I have playing on the system--notices, music, video audio, system sounds, Internet sounds (via flash or wm plugins)--it all plays unilaterally across the sound output. that means, if I have a bluetooth headset connected and the proper sound driver installed for it, Windows will automatically pipe all sound to my headset, IN STEREO no less.

But in Linux... well... sound is not so easy... you have to worry about the kernel having the necessary modules for both your sound card and for the sound architecture you want (alsa, gstreamer, etc.), and even if it has all that on place you have to then worry about whether or not your applications use/are compatible with the sound architecture you have loaded not to mention the fact that Linux tends to separate sound output excessively. on my little lappy here In my sound/alsa config I see no less than 4 outputs... when I only have 2!!! and only 2 of 'em actually work while the others trade places intermittently... it's a frikken crap shoot each time I boot weather or not my volume control shortcuts will work! and that's NOT including the headaches I've had trying to get a2dp to work... that introduces a whole new level of complexity that... well, I'll admit I have not been able to get my headset to work on any system I own. and I have tried this in fedora, Debian, SuSE, but NOT Ubuntu... I just dont like Ubuntu... and yes, I am aware that Ubuntu is a Debian branch... it's the Ubuntu creator politics... they bug me, please don't ask.

Look, you can tell me I'm an idiot all you like, you can flame me for getting all pissy about this. But you can't tell me that A2DP works on the Nokia Internet tablets. it's a myth. It's vaporware. And I'm getting a little tired of all you script kiddies out there who claim otherwise.

It's like selling me an '08 ford mustang and telling me it can go 280mph. SURE it can, but you have to gut the transmission, pull the throttle assembly and install NON FACTORY PARTS to get it to do so. using that as a selling point is simply misleading. In the majority of countries where this stuff is sold, misleading like that is ILLEGAL!!!

Final note, you can push this crap all you want, this forum is intended for just that, but until you/Nokia can make a simple install package (or set of packages) that replace the existing sound system on the Internet tablets to allow for NATIVE A2DP support, you are just hacking. that is not acceptable when Nokia has misrepresented the NATIVE abilities of the device.