Headset?

[jjguarino]

If I want to use Skype do I need to buy a blue tooth headset? Or is there a way to plug corded headset into X50V? I just want to try it out, don't want to invest 100 plus into a headset I may never use much.

[Sven Johannsen]

Actually you get to choose. You can get BT headsets for under $40, or probabaly less if you check places like e-cost, buy.com, etc. The x50V does support the handsfree/headset profile natively.

You can also get a corded headset with mic. The trick here is that usually such things are for cell phones and have 2.5mm plugs, and the Dell takes a 3.5mm plug like most audio devices. Dell does sell a headset for the x50 line, http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=310-5968&c=us&l=en&cs=19&category_id=2999&page=external and you can find one at http://pc-mobile.net/px50aa.htm and http://www.seidioonline.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=HERSOVAXX50%2DSL

[jjguarino]

Thanks for buy.com link, every time I went store bluetooth headsets where 100 or so dollars. I just bought a Plantronics M2500 Bluetooth Wireless Headset from buy.com for $37...I figure $7 more was worth it to have wireless over Dells corded headset.

[kaitanium]

never buy anything from stores. stores are for touching, online is for buying espically when it comes to electronics

[miterb]

I just bought a Logitech Mobile Freedom Bluetooth headset to use with my Axim X50v. I am having a problem, using Skype, to get sound transmitted to the earphone. The microphone works fine.

On the Aximsite I have found a number of others with the same problem and the solution proposed is to install a Broadcom (Bluetooth stack software in the Axim) patch available to HP Users to upgrade the driver from version 1.5 to 1.6.

Does anybody on this forum have knowledge of this or should I just continue trying to make the 1.5 work. As I said, when I call my home SBC phone using SkypeOut I am able to be heard in the SBC phone but I cannot hear any responses in the Logitech headset.

Brad

[miterb]

Figured out the problem. I had the BT headset at the wrong setting (poor instructions come with it). Then I had the sound turned off on the PCA. I thought it just controlled the speaker on the PDA. However, when the sound is going OK to the headset, the speaker is bypassed.

Brad

[Sven Johannsen]

Great, I hadn't had a chance to get mine set up again to see if there was a trick to it. As I recalled, hitting the connect button on the headset routed both the in and out sound to it. Note that if you are listening to music or a video, and hit the disconnect button, the sound will come blaring out of the PPC again.

[stevelam]

never buy anything from stores. stores are for touching, online is for buying espically when it comes to electronics

Too right ive seen differances of £100's