Bluetooth question: Windows ME + Pocket PC 2002 + T610

"Tony Clark" <curiousgeorge1964@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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|| "Chris Michael" <chris.michael@REMOVEMEintomobiles.com> wrote in
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||| Hi everybody,
|||
||| I need to buy a Bluetooth USB dongle and a CF card, but have heard
||| horror stories with regards to compatibility so I thought I'd seek
||| some advice :-).
|||
||| OK, firstly to deal with my HP Jornada 568 (PPC 2002), here are the
||| two options so far:
||| Belkin - http://tinyurl.com/lv3a
||| BlueMonkey - http://tinyurl.com/l7gz
|||
||| And, here are the options for a USB dongle for my PC (running
||| Windows ME): Belkin - http://tinyurl.com/fv4y
||| TDK - http://tinyurl.com/lv3k
|||
||| The PC, my PDA and my SE T610 are the only things that will be
||| "talking" to each other. Does anybody forsee any compatibility
||| issues or recommendations to help me choose from the products above.

|| Most of the horror stories were about PPC 2003 and CF card drivers.
|| Since you don't have PPC 2003 then you should not have that problem.
|| I have a Belkin USB dongle and it works just fine with my
|| Sony-Ericsson T68i. I am not so happy with Belkin's sloooooow
|| support for new driver releases. I am currently running a new
|| Widcomm stack but I had to hack it to make it work with the Belkin.
|| I really wish Belkin would try and keep up. Another possible issue
|| with Belkin is the F8T001, which is the USB dongle rated for 100m,
|| does not support the headset profile according to Belkin. They told
|| me in an email that this device does not have the proper hardware to
|| support BT Audio. I have not been able to make it work even with the
|| new Widcomm drivers and others have reported a similar problem. So
|| even though I am hesitant to believe Belkin it appears that they are
|| probably correct.
||
|| The Belkin and the TDK devices should work fine for you. I am not
|| familiar with the Blue Monkey devices so I cannot comment on them.
|| If you can live without the BT Audio support then getting Belkin on
|| both the PPC and the desktop is probably your best bet.
||
|| Cheers
|| TC
||
|| PS - I don't really think the BT Audio is anything to worry about
|| since a) most reports say that the quality is poor and suffers when
|| the desktop CPU gets busy and b) most of the BT headsets being sold
|| today are mono only so they really don't offer you much in the way
|| of MP3/Video playback.

Some great advice there Tony. I will probably not be going for the
BlueMonkey CF card, simply because it is not very well known and software
updates for future products will be very slow. However, I think I've chosen
the TDK USB adaptor, I know it's a lot bigger than the Belkin, but the
software that it comes with for mobile compatibility is supposedly second to
none. There shouldn't be a cross-manufacturer compaitbility problem (Belkin
CF and TDK adaptor), so that's what I think I'm going for.

Many thanks,
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The TDK is a pretty good device from the comments I have read about it. You
shouldn't have a problem getting it to work with a Belkin CF card for the
Jordana.
Good luck and please let us all know how things worked out.

Cheers
TC


"Chris Michael" <chris.michael@REMOVEMEintomobiles.com> wrote in message
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> "Tony Clark" <curiousgeorge1964@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:5lO4b.4982$tw6.2541@newsread4.news.pas.earthl ink.net
> || "Chris Michael" <chris.michael@REMOVEMEintomobiles.com> wrote in
> || message news:bivpt0$2sf$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> ||| Hi everybody,
> |||
> ||| I need to buy a Bluetooth USB dongle and a CF card, but have heard
> ||| horror stories with regards to compatibility so I thought I'd seek
> ||| some advice :-).
> |||
> ||| OK, firstly to deal with my HP Jornada 568 (PPC 2002), here are the
> ||| two options so far:
> ||| Belkin - http://tinyurl.com/lv3a
> ||| BlueMonkey - http://tinyurl.com/l7gz
> |||
> ||| And, here are the options for a USB dongle for my PC (running
> ||| Windows ME): Belkin - http://tinyurl.com/fv4y
> ||| TDK - http://tinyurl.com/lv3k
> |||
> ||| The PC, my PDA and my SE T610 are the only things that will be
> ||| "talking" to each other. Does anybody forsee any compatibility
> ||| issues or recommendations to help me choose from the products above.
>
> || Most of the horror stories were about PPC 2003 and CF card drivers.
> || Since you don't have PPC 2003 then you should not have that problem.
> || I have a Belkin USB dongle and it works just fine with my
> || Sony-Ericsson T68i. I am not so happy with Belkin's sloooooow
> || support for new driver releases. I am currently running a new
> || Widcomm stack but I had to hack it to make it work with the Belkin.
> || I really wish Belkin would try and keep up. Another possible issue
> || with Belkin is the F8T001, which is the USB dongle rated for 100m,
> || does not support the headset profile according to Belkin. They told
> || me in an email that this device does not have the proper hardware to
> || support BT Audio. I have not been able to make it work even with the
> || new Widcomm drivers and others have reported a similar problem. So
> || even though I am hesitant to believe Belkin it appears that they are
> || probably correct.
> ||
> || The Belkin and the TDK devices should work fine for you. I am not
> || familiar with the Blue Monkey devices so I cannot comment on them.
> || If you can live without the BT Audio support then getting Belkin on
> || both the PPC and the desktop is probably your best bet.
> ||
> || Cheers
> || TC
> ||
> || PS - I don't really think the BT Audio is anything to worry about
> || since a) most reports say that the quality is poor and suffers when
> || the desktop CPU gets busy and b) most of the BT headsets being sold
> || today are mono only so they really don't offer you much in the way
> || of MP3/Video playback.
>
> Some great advice there Tony. I will probably not be going for the
> BlueMonkey CF card, simply because it is not very well known and software
> updates for future products will be very slow. However, I think I've
chosen
> the TDK USB adaptor, I know it's a lot bigger than the Belkin, but the
> software that it comes with for mobile compatibility is supposedly second
to
> none. There shouldn't be a cross-manufacturer compaitbility problem
(Belkin
> CF and TDK adaptor), so that's what I think I'm going for.
>
> Many thanks,
> --
> Chris Michael
> www.INTOmobiles.com
> Free ringtones/logos
> Free mobile alerts
> 3 months free insurance
>
>