Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/03/ihome_airplay/
iHome announces AirPlay speaker
First of its kind?
Posted in Hardware, 3rd September 2010 16:28 GMT
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There's pretty darn little to say about this box, but the headline fact: it supports - or, rather, will support - Apple's AirPlay [1] media streaming technology.
Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz and JBL have all said they too will support AirPlay, but have yet to make product announcements.
Not so iHome [2] which has revealed this box, which it says the box has a built-in battery so you can carry it from room to room, all the time the speaker streaming music from your iTunes-running computer.
And control that computer, since the iHome box has track controls on top and AirTunes, AirPlay's music-only predecessor already supports this.
For now, it's all vapourware, of course. Anyone can say they're going to build a product, shipping it is something else. iHome is promising this boy before Christmas.
AirPlay is in iTunes 10 now, and will debut with iOS 4.2 [3], expected in November. ®