Bluetooth discussion - Bluetooth voice support in Windows XP SP2

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Bluetooth voice support in Windows XP SP2

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2006-05-17, 5:48 pm

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Once again I'd like to try and get a Bluetooth Headset to work as a microphone with my Windows XP (SP2) installation.

The last time I tried this was a few years ago and the XP Bluetooth stack didn't support voice and the Belkin Bluetooth software was so iffy I just gave up and sold my headset.

So my question is has Microsoft added support for voice in it's current implementation of Bluetooth??

Just for the record my current Blutooth device is a - Belkin F8T001v2 and I intend to buy a Plantronics Voyager 510 or Plantronics Discovery 645.

Thanks in advance. - CES

dold@XReXXBluet.usenet.us.com

2006-05-17, 11:48 pm

In alt.cellular.bluetooth CES <none@none.com> wrote:
> So my question is has Microsoft added support for voice in it's current
> implementation of Bluetooth??

I think not.

> Just for the record my current Blutooth device is a - Belkin F8T001v2 and
> I intend to buy a Plantronics Voyager 510 or Plantronics Discovery 645.

A coworker had a Jabra BT200 headset for his blackberry, added the DLink
DBT-120 (using the DLink-Widcom Drivers) for his WinXP PC, and was able to
use both Skype and Cisco Softphone on his PC with the BT headset.

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Gerd Staudenmaier

2006-05-17, 11:48 pm

CES schrieb:
Just for the record my current Blutooth device is a - Belkin F8T001v2
> and I intend to buy a Plantronics Voyager 510 or Plantronics Discovery 645.

I haven't tried yet, but I don't believe so. The bluetooth stack from
Microsoft is still one of the most worse stacks on market, not only by
lack of supported profiles but also by it long known and still not fixed
bugs,

It's a shame for M$ that they are unable to make this technology
available to the masses.

Same problem with Windows Mobile 2005 devices. the bluetooth stack there
is the same bullshit implementation as running under Win XP...

Gerd

Tym

2006-05-18, 5:48 pm

On Wed, 17 May 2006 20:48:41 +0000 (UTC),
dold@XReXXBluet.usenet.us.com wrote:

>A coworker had a Jabra BT200 headset for his blackberry, added the DLink
>DBT-120 (using the DLink-Widcom Drivers) for his WinXP PC, and was able to
>use both Skype and Cisco Softphone on his PC with the BT headset.

I've used A Belkin Dongle with the Jabra BT250 on skype and it works
fine. Only because you can tell skype which deveice to use!
Tym

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