I am now on my third Bluetooth headset in the past 9 months. At roughly $70 each I could have funded my new iPhone. While these headsets burn a hole in my wallet this represents an opportunity — a docking station for your headset that is integrated directly into the the phone. Don’t need your headset — simply slide it into your phone. Between the health and public safety (see state of California and New York) concerns hands-free headsets will become integrated into the phone and some clever and innovative phone manufacturer can begin to bundle them together and provide a nice parking garage for the headset.
I imagine the early versions of this feature will be similar to the integrated docking stations for the PowerBook or those strings your mom used to attach to your mittens to keep them attached to your coat. Yet, with fewer male-female connections to make the mobile phone version of the docking station will progress far more quickly then the docking stations for the Powerbook.
[PowerBook docking station. picture source wikipedia]
cool idea to integrate a headset into a phone. is this a business opportunity for you?