BenQ's IMS-100 Bluetooth speaker

by Paul Miller posted Jul 30th 2006 at 7:19AM

We're not sure there's going to be a whole lot of amplification going on with a 1.6-inch thick speaker that weighs 9.5 ounces, but we're sure BenQ's IMS-100 will give your tunes its best shot. The good news is that it'll look good pumping out those three watts, and the Bluetooth ability means no wires will have to get in the way. You can also do the boring thing and hook this up with a regular ol' mini-jack. The device operates on 4 AA batteries or an external adapter, works for speakerphone action and should be out in August.

[Via MobileMag]

Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Wireless

Tags: benq, benq ims-100, BenqIms-100, bluetooth

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Morty Salt @ Jul 30th 2006 11:52AM

This is what I was hoping Apple would put out but BenQ makes some nice stuff if they are under $50 bucks each I'll probably pick up 7 of them to hook up to my 7.1 surround system.

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Corey @ Jul 30th 2006 12:03PM

Hey so how is this going to work with the macbooks and powerbooks since they don't support the a2dp bluetooth profile yet. I tried setting up a pair of logitech headphones to it and found out that apple doesn't support the a2dp profile the hard way

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Zoundguy @ Jul 30th 2006 12:04PM

Are you aserious Morty? 3watts, 1.6 inch cone. Come on! You can't seriously want to use a wireless protocal to stream your 7.1 dolby digital signals do you? Besides, the frequency response of those things is going to be off the wall useless. They will sound ok if you are streaming some "nice" 128k song root kitted songs, but otherwise, yuck.

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Scott @ Jul 30th 2006 12:27PM

Why use such a compressed standard for a speaker?

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longtooth @ Aug 24th 2006 4:46PM

An AC adapter would be nice, but more importantly, does it have a set of output jacks that can be fed to a power amp?

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