Bluetooth Headset with Softphone

Posts: 222 · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:59 pm Post subject: Bluetooth Headset with Softphone

I have a Motorola HS820 bluetooth headset that I use with my cell phone. I bought a cheap ($39) bluetooth dongle for my PC and can use that same headset with my softphone. (My laptop has built-in bluetooth, so I don't even need the dongle.)

Works great and makes the softphone much handier, as I can walk around (up to 30 feet from my computer) without wires connected to my head.

If you have a softphone and a bluetooth headset, you might give this a try.

Fletcher

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 09, 2005 Posts: 1

So how did your softphone recognize the headset? I understand that you have a bluetooth dongle and a bluetooth headset. What did you do? Did you just set it up and windows picked it up as speakers and a microphone? I want to do the same thing: 1. Buy a dongle, 2. Get a bluetooth headset, and 3. Use it with my softphone and Voip and such. The bluetooth headset I plan on getting is the cheapest one I found, from Logitech, which by the way has some good reviews. Thanks for your help.

Posts: 82 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Feb 15, 2005 Posts: 82

I personally use a Jabra headset ($100 Best Buy) that I am very happy with. It received great reviews and the battery life is unbelievable. I had a different brand to start off with and the battery life was not long enough.

Posts: 3 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 05, 2005 Posts: 3

Please provide Jabra headset part # Question

Thanks!

DentalRep wrote:

I personally use a Jabra headset ($100 Best Buy) that I am very happy with. It received great reviews and the battery life is unbelievable. I had a different brand to start off with and the battery life was not long enough.

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 19, 2005 Posts: 1

Just spent a few hours yesterday trolling for info, then made purchase -

Headset = Logitech Mobile Freedom ($50 or less everywhere)
Bluetooth USB dongle = Targus ACB10US ($40 at Office Depot)

Worked sweet!

Plenty of warnings around the web about Windows Bluetooth implementation not supporting the bluetooth Headset profile - I followed instructions for installing the alternate (Widcomm) drivers that I downloaded from the Targus website and it worked on the first try (how often does that happen?)

Being a new bluetooth user, I wasn't sure what would happen with headset on, mobile phone on, dongle on. Apparently the headset will pair with only bluetooth source at any point in time - either the phone or the laptop.

Posts: 34 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 34

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Please provide Jabra headset part #
Thanks!

Jabra BT250 Wireless Headset used with the IBM Bluetooth II card built into my laptop.

They also make a BT250 with an adapter for non-bluetooth gear, but it is a little more $$

Doug

Posts: 31 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Dec 14, 2004 Posts: 31

how is you voice quality to the users on the other end? i have a generic bt dongle and an od belkin headset and the call quality ****. i was tempted to buy a new headset but didn;'t want to do it if it wasn't going to make that much of a difference

Posts: 34 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 34

kailes wrote:

how is you voice quality to the users on the other end? i have a generic bt dongle and an od belkin headset and the call quality ****. i was tempted to buy a new headset but didn;'t want to do it if it wasn't going to make that much of a difference

I have been told that it sounds like a really good cell phone. Not as good as a land line, but all my Vonage accounts sound like that, even the Linksys based lines.

Doug

Posts: 5 · New Forum Member Joined: May 19, 2005 Posts: 5

I have been using a bluetooth headset too and I love it. But, when the headset is selected in the softphone as the audio device, The phone doesnt ring through the pc speakers. Anyone have any solution for this?

John

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Jul 17, 2005 Posts: 1

I think a better solution is a product such as this:
http://www.clipcomm.co.kr/eng/e_product/e_product_bs_v100.html

Something that lets you use your bluetooth headset through either a landline or cell connetion both at home and away. Not sure about the softphone because when you have to have your computer up to use it. When do you use a softphone where a VOIP landline or Cell phone aren't better?