SHURE iPhone Adapter

Shure Completes Apple iPhone Experience with Music Phone Adapter

New Inline Accessory for Shure Earphones Brings Rock Star Audio Quality to Mobile Communications

NILES, IL, June 26, 2007 - Shure Incorporated today unveiled its revolutionary Music Phone Adapter (MPA), the latest innovation in the company's acclaimed family of professional-grade audio accessories and a breakthrough for multi-function devices. Shure brought its 80-year professional audio legacy to the consumer market three years ago and has since defined the category for premium earphones and accessories. Their newest offering, the Music Phone Adapter, is a sleek modular accessory that converts the new Shure Sound Isolating? Earphones into a stereo headset and allows Apple iPhone users to switch seamlessly between listening and communicating.

According to IDC, converged mobile device shipments topped 80 million in 2006, a 42% increase over 2005, and continued growth is expected this year. In tandem, consumers' appetites for premium audio attachments that improve their listening experiences are growing rapidly. With 10 million iPhones expected to be sold in 2008, the opportunity for accessories manufacturers is enormous. Accessories are becoming a critical part of the portable device ecosystem, and the Shure MPA will redefine the audio quality of the convergence experience just as the iPhone promises to redefine what consumers can do on a mobile phone.

"In the past three years, we have watched the popularity of our earphones skyrocket as consumers have begun to recognize the value of premium accessories for their portable devices," said Mark Karnes, Executive Director of Marketing, Shure Incorporated. "The release of the iPhone promises to change the face of the music phone industry by getting serious music lovers to make the leap to a converged device. The Shure MPA combined with our award-winning earphones provides the missing piece of the convergence puzzle: one convenient accessory that seamlessly delivers premium audio for all portable listening activities."

The Shure MPA capitalizes on the company's ground-breaking modularity concept, first introduced in Shure's Push-To-Hear Control (PTH) and then brought to Shure's entire new line of Sound Isolating Earphones in January 2007. By coupling Shure earphones with the MPA accessory, consumers can easily bridge from personal listening nirvana to other communication activities that converged devices such as the iPhone offer. Instead of carrying both a pair of earphones and a music phone headset, consumers can incorporate the premium sound quality of Shure Sound Isolating Earphones into their mobile phone conversations, achieving new levels of sound quality, convenience, connectivity and portability. Read more on the SHURE website Here