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Old 12-16-2005, 12:15 AM
Sven Johannsen
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These paired with the Dell with the headset profile are bound to have poor audio. That's not a hi-fidelity profile, but rather a voice profile designed for voice headsets, mono and mic. That is also why you couldn't pair the phone and the Dell simultaneously, you were trying to use the same profile twice on the headphones. You would need the stereo specific A2DP profile on the Dell to male use of both the stereo and headset capabilities of the headphones at the same time.

There is a version of the HP drivers designed for their headphones that will load and work on the Dell, giving it A2DP capabilities. The quality of the stereo transmission when supported by the PPC will be variable depending on the stress the PPC happens to be under. The HP headphones will likely work much better on the 4700 if used with the transmitter that these come with.

It's a shame that more PPCs don't come with the A2DP profile, or more headphone manufacturers don't supply it. Supposedly the next update from MS to WM5, the one with the security features that enable push e-mail, includes A2DP in the MS BT stack. Hope the OEMs using it don't strip it out, and actually provide it.

If you are watchful when you get a BT dongle for your PC that supports the A2DP, you'll find these headphones work pretty well for that too.
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