>>>Cell phones are optimized for speech frequency range and characteristics...<<<<
I know, I know. It was a rhetorical question that basically meant "Why hasn't this technology come nearly as far as the technology to make phone calls?" But a better question would be, "How am I able to capture streaming music with seamless, crystal clear quality on my cell phone from a source possibly thousands of miles away, yet I can't transmit from my damned iPod to a speaker 50 feet away?"