Awaitng my new Motorola HS 850 (bluetooth) heads

[JWH]

Awaitng my new Motorola HS 850 (bluetooth) headset 1.2 compliant. It was purchased for Blackberry 7100T.

I would also like to use the headset with the Motion M 1300 tablet. I want the most versatile BT adaptor for the Motion.

PCMCIA (or CF)seems less obtrusive than the USB sticking out the bottom. Can I find such an adaptor which will do double-duty for GPS, mouse (roll wheel)?, lots of profiles.

So far looking at:
Anycom USB 240
Anycom CF 300
BlueTake BT500 & BT009X USB bundle
Anycom's mouse & USB bundle

How did you do it?

Jeff

[ChrisParis]

I use a Belkin BLuetooth PCMCIA adapter card. It's an older generation one and causes me some problems. Surprisingly, too, because Belkin is usually a provider of top notch stuff. But the driver installation is tedious (takes a LONG time, as much as 15 minutes as it scans each COM port and installs a separate driver for each), rife with install errors (you have topress ignore about 20 times, so you have to SIT through the fifteen minutes) and the final programs it installs are intrusive.

It doesn't even work that well at connecting to other BT devices. But it works with my printer, so I still use it on occasion.

I made the mistake of buying a Motorola phone that was supposed to have BT, but Verizon crippled most of the BT protocols and you can't swap data from the phone to the PC, so I really am not getting anything out of Bluetooth in the real world.

Bluetooth is a dying standard, partly (I think) due to poor integration with hardware, limited distance and a complicated user experience. I'm not sure I would invest in much of Bluetooth any more, because I would bet it's not around in a few years.

[peter parker]

Hey CP, I have the V710 as well, and an old 3COM bt PCMCIA card in my 1300.
Hacked the V710 and now i can transfer files with BT.
Shoot me a line and I'll tell you how....

[JWH]

ChrisParis, Thank you for your experience with the Belkin card.

I wonder if the Belkin hassles are lessened with newer versions or if this is inherent with all PCMCIA bluetooths?

I do see the limitaions of bluetooth in the long term, but since I've already made the initial jump, it would be nice to be able to mouse and keyboard without the tether.

JWH

[ChrisParis]

The Belkin problems were a result of the drivers and software they forced you to load, I believe. Perhaps newer versions are better?

[Trev]

How did you hack the v710? I am thinking of upgrading to one of those in coming weeks.

[Bing]

Personally after owning the v710 it is a good phone but you will not be able to do the following even after the hack which is annoying:

Listen to mp3's over bluetooth.
Use the camera (it is horrible in anything but high noon)

Other than that a good phone. If you have verizon I would wait for the next best model to come out.

visit http://www.howardforums.com/forumdis...s=&forumid=254 to see what I am talking about.

[peter parker]

Bing is right.
The hack doesn't enable the OBEX profile either.
It lets you transfer files using Motorola's software called Mobile Phone Tools.
It actually uses the DUN profile for file transfer.
There is a national class action lawsuit against Verizon because of the crippled bluetooth in the 710. The next model, called the E815, is due out in May i think.
The outcome of the lawsuit could determine wether or not the BT is crippled in the E815, so I'd wait to find out.

[Global Mobility]

JWH,

The Billionton PCMCIA BT card actually sits flush inside your computer and also has a small external antenna that you can pull out for extended range. Other BT cards have at least 1cm sticking out of your PCMCIA slot. As for USB dongles, they are versatile if you wish to share it with your desktop, but really gets in the way and tend to snap off, or even damage your USB port of handled improperly.

Regards,

[Bing]

Is there a way to put a bluetooth card in place of the modem card on the M1300. I actualy don't even know if there is a modem card on this pc but I thought I would ask the question anyway.