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45 of 46 found the following review helpful:
 Works flawlessly, cheap, portable: what more do you want? Jul 27, 2008
By Andrea L. Polk
I purchased this item to transfer video and photos from my Nokia cell phone. I installed it on my XP desktop, using the included CD drivers for the install. No upgrades were needed and the device picked up the signal from the Nokia immediately. I uploaded my files easily and the signal was great within about a 5' range.
Note that when you are prompted for a 'key', it's any series of numbers you put in. Then simply put the same password into the other bluetooth enabled device and you'll be good to go.
Vista recognized this device immediately and had drivers for it. No need to use the driver CD to install.
I was going to pay HP extra to install a bluetooth option, but I would have overpaid. This is the cheapest, most effective option you can buy and the seller got it to me quick. Don't hesitate to buy it.
27 of 27 found the following review helpful:
 Missing Drivers and CD May 26, 2009
By D. Barker
"TerranStryder"
Bargain Cell appears to be removing the CDs from their dongle clamshells. I ordered 4 dongles and none had the CD included. The drivers are not parts of Vista's online driver collection. No matching driver can be found online. This results in the dongles being useless and BargainCell keeping their S&H fee.
46 of 50 found the following review helpful:
 Great for the price Aug 01, 2008
By Mgamerz
"Mgamerz Productions"
This overall, is a great product.
It comes in a ~very~ generic package, so I assumed this was a generic-like bluetooth adapter (It is very generic). It comes with a CD, and the bluetooth adapter in the picture. It's bluetooth 2.0 like it says, but it's USB 1.1, which was kind of a bummer... But Bluetooth 2.0 has 3Mbps transfer speed and USB 1.1 is 12Mbps, so even if it is 2.0, it won't make a difference.
The plastic casing on the adapter is kinda weak. And it wiggles a bit, so that kind of bugged me. I don't know if the CD is actually worth using because I am using Ubuntu 8.04. I'm not even close to a linux expert, so it took me about an hour and a half to get my phone connected and get my wireless headphones working. The transfer speed to the phone is fast, a good 20KB/S at the least (No transfer speed shown on Bluetooth communications) Took about a minute for 5.25 Megabytes.
Using the A2DP audio profile (High Quality Sound for the Bluetooth bandwidth), my headphones sound just as good as a $25 pair of wired headphones.
As for distance, I can walk around my whole house and only in one spot did I have a break, but the audio quality dropped the farther i got away but I never was disconnected (It was about 40 feet with 2-3 walls at all times).
Overall this is a good deal, I would recommend buying it if you want a cheap and decent bluetooth adapter. But the packaging indicated no company name at all anywhere, so that's a mark off.
Other than that, I would buy it.
It's REALLY great for transferring files to your phone. Yes, it is slow, but it's really annoying to have to use a cable.
REVIEW EDIT: After like 6 or 7 months of use, the plastic that holds the dongle together broke apart into half. A quick and easy fix is just to use clear tape and tape it back together, and mine was good as new. Still working great, over a year later.
Update: Still going. Just don't unplug/replug it in often and it'll work forever. Works great with Windows 7. No drivers or discs needed, it will do it all for you. Use BlueSoleil (its like 20 bucks... just gotta shop around though) cause it has way better bluetooth stuff than windows.
21 of 24 found the following review helpful:
Not even worth a dollar. Feb 22, 2009
By N. Barnes
Pros - Cheap.
Cons -
Doesnt work.
Software on the CD didnt work
Software on the CD is just a freaking trial.
To get the full version of the software you need to pay.
To get a newer version of the software you need to buy it.
I almost feel like this is a scam to get you to buy software
that probably wont even work anyways.
I bought this for only one reason, to use my bluetooth headset with my PC. This product has failed to deliver even that.
I would NOT recommend this product even for the price. You are better of just spending the money and getting a quality product.
14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Good for the price Oct 30, 2008
By James Chase
I bought this primarily to use with Skype on Windows Vista. The shipping took about a week to get to me, which isn't too bad.
It comes with IVT BlueSoleil version 2.7 which is outdated (the newest one is 6.2). I initially had problems getting this to work with Skype and my bluetooth headset, so I tried the newest version of BlueSoleil. This actually worked worse (kept saying my microphone wasn't configured correctly in skype), so I went back to the version included with the USB Bluetooth Adapter. The 2nd time I installed it, I got it to work without too much trouble. The program isn't entirely obvious to use if you've never dealt with bluetooth. The scanning for bluetooth devices and pairing between the adapter and your bluetooth device makes sense, but once it is recognized you should be sure to search the device for services so that you can enable the device to do whatever it is that it is supposed to do.
The BlueSoleil program does interface with skype so that you can answer and hang up your calls using your headset (if supported on the headset).
I found the range to be not good despite what other say. I can't walk much further than about 6 feet from my computer before it starts to get crackly and bad reception. This may be because my computer is in a corner and when I walk away the signal has to travel through a wall. I have not tried it in a wide open scenario so I cannot comment on that. But it definitely does not go through walls very well!
In general (and this may apply more directly to my headset [plantronics 520] than to the receiver) the sound quality is good but there is definitely some static/crackling every once in awhile. So it's not really a clean sound/connection. It's usually not enough to bother me or the other party and generally people say I sound clear using the device.
If I were to do it all again, I think I would buy a higher quality adapter so that I can be sure the crackling/static is not the fault of my bluetooth adapter. For what it's worth the crackling is also present on when connected to my cell phone so it could be my headset's fault.
I have to say bluetooth is a pretty disappointing technology and is not well implemented with current Windows Operating Systems in that it requires third party software and is not simply plug and play.
But for $5, you can't really go wrong with this product.
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