It's on the way for sure, just maybe not as soon as we'd hoped. And with video! AppleInsider points us to a job listing for an iPod engineer with a list of skills that will certainly pay the bills:

Further down in the listing, Apple says, "Experience in the following areas is important: system integration, digital logic, SDRAM, Flash, ASIC's, processor selection, ATAPI, various communication protocols (ie: GSM, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11, Firewire, and USB), display types and video and analog integration."

While the job listing does not explicitly imply that the next-generation iPod will be capable of displaying video and connecting to WiFi networks, it does indicate that the company is at least experimenting with the technologies inside its iPod division.

So it might not be here in time for Christmas as we'd hoped, but at least we know people inside Apple are thinking along the same lines we are. Wireless is super-cool.

OK, so Apple and Motorola have teamed up to bring iTunes to some Next-Gen Motorola phones, and with todays release of iSync 1.5 they are yapping on about how this version works with a whole bunch of motorola phones that it didn't before. The catch? USB only. No bluetooth. Clearly the two companies are working together. Clearly they know that their customers want their products to work together. Mac has been pushing bluetooth. Many of the new Motorola phones on the list have bluetooth. WHY is this USB only? Not technically why, but why isn't there a single person at Motorola or Apple who can look at this situation and say "damn, we should do whatever we need to to make these phones work via bluetooth for iSync."

Anyone who has used Salling Clicker knows how cool it is to be able to control iTunes and other Mac functions over Buetooth from your phone. So cool in fact that Mac included the feature in it's new OS version 10.3.5. MobileWhack has the details ( I still haven't had a spare minute to install it myself):

If you only need a remote control, however, this appears to be built-in now in Mac OS X 10.3.5, as evident when I pair a Sony Ericsson K700i to my PowerBook. Not only does OS X know the K700i has a built-in remote control feature, but it even offers to set it up for me. The first time you do so, the K700i will go to the "remote control" panel and allow you to give it a whirl. Rather neat, but still haven't played with the Media Player remote yet, and I think that is probably one of the cooler ideas. Moving my mouse across a 20" Cinema display with a mobile phone takes a little while… to have such problems, I know.

Jon has just spent countless hours digging up every bit of info you need to get your PowerBook online via your Motorola V600 from anywhere at anytime.

I'm going to test this out this weekend, I swear.

Apple's continuing support of all things wireless has led to countless rumors of iPods with Bluetooth or iPods with wifi and a whole collection of other cable-less options. None of these have been confirmed, but the recent replacement of the three model iPod line with 2 models has sparked even more talk of what the yet unreleased high-est-end iPod flagship might include. 60GB? Color Screen? Bluetooth? Engadget posted this (probably fake) iPod ad that was "leaked" (read: photoshopped) which is more than likely just wishful thinking. In all honestly though, I can't imagine something like this being too far off. It just seems like a natural progression for them.

Since the end of last year Caryn Coleman, Xeni Jardin and I have been working on SENT: America's First Phonecam Art Show. Xeni teamed up with sixspace to explore this new device and see what kind of creative potential it might have. The online aspect where the public can send in images to the website has been live for months, but this weekend in Los Angeles is the offical opening of the physical in-gallery exhibition side of the show.

We invited a collection of photographers, fine artists, film directors, bloggers, and celebrities to take a phonecam (V600 model provided by Motorola) around with them for a month and see what they could get it to do. Those images, 3-5 from each artist, have been printed out and will be on display at an opening this weekend, and all next week for public viewing. Images submitted by the public will also be shown shown on a collection of flat screen iMacs. Artists either e-mailed the images they took directly from their phones to us, or came into the gallery and used the phones built in bluetooth to transfer their submissions directly to the PowerBook being used as the main database.

Invited artists: Cynthia Connolly, Mark Cuban, Clayton James Cubitt, Elizabeth Daniels (image at right), Jason DeFillippo, Warren Ellis, Eriberto Oriol, Glen E. Friedman, Steve Diet Goedde, Lana Kim, Randal Kleiser, Kathleen McGivney, Meeno, Andy Mueller, Megan Mullally, Estevan Oriol, Chad Robertson, Shawn Scallen, Penelope Spheeris, Manuel Wanskasmith, Ruth Waytz, Wil Wheaton, and "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Public Reception: Saturday, July 10 from 7-10pm
Continues through July 17 from 12-5 pm daily
@ The Standard Hotel - Brunette Room 4th Floor - 550 South Flower Street (downtown Los Angeles)

(Ed Note: as an aside, that's why I've been so quiet around here recently, since I've been spending every waking moment on this project, but after the opening this weekend, things should be back to normal -sean)

Earlier this year, PalmSource announced that it would not provide Mac OS synchronization software with Palm OS Cobalt (Palm OS 6). Mark/Space, Inc. announced that it would provide new synchronization software for Mac OS X and Palm OS 4, Palm OS 5 and Palm OS Cobalt devices. This new sync software would not only replace HotSync Manager and Palm Desktop, it would offer far more features than what Mac users have had available.

Rather than waiting for Palm OS Cobalt (Palm OS 6) devices, Mark/Space is pleased to announce The Missing Sync for Palm OS, version 4 with support for Palm OS 4 and Palm OS 5 devices and lots of new "Mac First" features!

This is great news for anyone who has been suffering recently with their PDA and Mac not playing nice, and to have a bunch of new "Mac First" features, well that's even better. What are these features you might ask? Bluetooth & WiFi sync support, Desktop mounting of memory cards, iPhoto plug in, iTunes plug in, USB & Bluetooth internet sharing, a Dock icon, and more. Sounds like it's well worth the $30 or so that it costs. If that rumored Treo 610 (or 660, or "Ace") with Bluetooth is released I'll be sure to give a full report on this. (via MobileWhack)

Good News: MacMice is releasing a multi-button bluetooth mouse for Macs that will fit right in with your design theme and save you from having to buy something off color. As Engadget points out, techically, this should work with other Bluetooth computhers as well, so if you are trying to Mac-ify your PC, this might be the perfect accessory.

Bad News: MacMice seems to be a Jack Campbell enterprise which is making a lot of people very skeptical.

Luckily this one in intentional. An eBay seller in the UK has taken the art of case moding and transformed an old fasion phone into a bluetooth headset. Check this out:

You are bidding on a one of a kind hand set that has bee modified to house a bluetooth headset. It works fine and you'll get loads of looks! there is an access hole to charge and operation is via a single rocker at the base (see picture) this enables volume up and down for the ear piece aswell as for the ringer volume. I will include the manual for operation.

Found via Pokia: Retro Phones of the Future!

If you have a newer Mac and a Palm OS PDA with bluetooth there's no reason you shouldn't be wirelessly syncing. Somepeople haven't taken that step because the old ways work fine, but they are the old ways for a reason. Apple has just posted some info docs giving you all the details you need to use iSynce and get your bluetooth sync on.

Unfortunately I bought a Sony Clie UX50 and it doesn't work with this, even using The Missing Sync, but I do use iSync and bluetooth with my phone. Er, well I did. My new Motorola phone doesn't support it. Anyway, I'm trying to sell both the devices so I can get back to the snuggly world of syncdom.

I just got my hands on a new Motorola V600 and wanted to give it a test drive. Since I've been using iSync via bluetooth with my Sony Ericsson T616 I assumed it would be just as easy with this. Not so. iSync doesn't support the V600 (at least not yet). Looking for a workaround, Google told me that lots of other people are having the same problem. It's even been discussed here. Now, the V600 is a fairly new phone, so maybe Apple just hasn't added it yet, but the T616 was included before it was released, so who knows. For now, a VERY GHETTO work around I've found is that you can send contacts, one by one, via bluetooth directly from AddressBook, which is OK if you only need a few, but a major pain if you have hundreds. Although, not as big a pain as retyping them all in by hand. Anyone else figured out a suitable way to do this?

Apple's Newton Message Pad, which was discontinued in 1998 sure has been getting a lot of press lately. It seems like everytime I turn around some other Newton freak has figured out a way to keep these devices current. Wired is running a story about Mike Manzano, a blogger who is using a Newton as his main input source.

Manzano fitted his MessagePad with a Wi-Fi card that sits in one of the Newton's two PC Card slots (it uses a driver written by a Newton user in Japan).

Manzano writes in longhand, running his posts through the Newton's spell-checker. "It's got really, really great handwriting recognition," Manzano said. "Natural and accurate."

Manzano e-mails his posts to his TypePad account, a hosting service run by Six Apart, publisher of the popular Movable Type blogging tool. The TypePad service does a lot of the magic; it's set up to accept blog entries by e-mail, making it very easy to maintain a blog from just about any e-mail-capable device.

The story goes on to talk about other Newton-based bloggers, and how people are soldering bluetooth chips into the motherboards to allow them to transmit images from digital cameras and blog those.

This morning Engadget was talking about the NaviPlay Bluetooth iPod Adapter. As you might expect this would pair up your iPod with other bluetooth devices like headsets, cell phones, laptops, etc for a whole range of functions. Even though this was supposed to be released a while ago, it's still not on the market and this pic is all Peter could track down. Clearly this is a powerful and mysterious device whose mystery is only exceeded by its power.

Thanks to BluePhoneMenu 1.0 you can hook that, and more up in seconds. Well, assuming you have a mobile phone with bluetooth that is.

BluePhoneMenu does not need to sync with your address book or  run any complex tasks. Simply add BluePhoneMenu to your startup  items and it will wait for a call from any Bluetooth phone you  have paired. You can also monitor signal strength, battery power  and many other properties all from the menu bar.

Yet I'm not quite sure I could tell you why. Outside of the obvious "On" replacing the "i" in the title, they both seem to do the same thing. Sync contacts from Apple's Address Book to your mobile phone and vice versa via cables or bluetooth. I'm all for a better sync option, so if anyone can figure out what makes this different, or better, I'd love to hear what you dig up.