Playing iPhone3g Music through SONY MEX BT5000

Here's some food for thought...
I have fitted the above bluetooth (BT) radio to my car. It pairs perfectly with my iPhone3g and I can receive and make calls truely handsfree thru the radio and the car speakers (as this model has a built in phone book and microphone).
It has two channels through BT. One for a "Handsfree Device" (ie a phone) and another called an "Audio Device".
This "Audio Device" source is used for streaming your music/podcast from a phone with AD2P BT. This works perfectly using any other phone but as the iphone3g does not have this standard of BT I never thought to try...
...However, the other evening, I had a voicemail message left on my iPhone. Didn't notice until in the car and absent mindedly pressed the play button. Expecting it to come through the iPhones telephone hands (like a normal telephone upto your ear) I pressed the soft "Speaker" icon on the iphone, and expected it to use the iPhone's speaker to listen to the voicemail.
Amazingly though, it started to come through the same previously mentioned Audio Device channel reserved for AD2P on my SONY. I thought it couldn't do that?
I still haven't tried to stream music, but the evidence so far, points to the fact that...if the option to tranfer the sound to a bluetooth device appears it can stream to an appropriate device akin to the voicemail.
So why do think a) it did this using my reserved AD2P Audio Device channel and b)Why cannot Apple put an equivalent soft "speaker" icon on the screen to send the audio from my songs on the iPhone as well.
It proves that the phone is more than capable don't you think...?

I think what you describe is the norm. Telephone related sound can go to the bluetooth device, and that includes voice mail.
Music will not play via bluetooth (and as far as I know, it would only be single channel (mono) if it did. Music via bluetooth is a common wishlist item, but I don't think you can get that from Apple.

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