Review: Toysoft’s “Freedom” Redirects Where your Treo’s Audio Comes Out.
Not every program that pumps audio out of your Treo’s speaker or headset jack is created equally, nor does each one give you a choice between listening to sounds over a wired headset or over the speakerphone.
When your options seem limited and your back is to the wall, it may be time for a little Freedom , an innovative hack from ToySoft, which eats up only 44k of internal RAM but can’t live on an SD card, Freedom’s purpose is to give you total control of when and where your Treo directs its sound output.
Unfortunately, Palm has STILL yet to natively implement the A2DP and AVRCP protocols in any of their PalmOS Treos. These protocol “stacks” let you listen to and control MP3s over a Bluetooth headset.
There are hardware solutions that do, such as Plantronics’ Pulsar 590A headphones. On the software side, there’s the very popular SofTick Audio Gateway, which enables A2DP on Treos; but I’m afraid that Freedom is not capable of achieving what these solutions do.
However, it is able to make a few small miracles happen, including redirecting sound to the internal earpiece when your headset is plugged in, or with a wired headset, giving you total control over its features and buttons (if present).
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