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Summary: Belkin F8T001
Review: I bought this to use in conjunction with my wife's Sony Clie UX50. The device configuration was a snap, and paired successfully to the Sony, but I had problems configuring it to Hot Sync, Belkin support was terse at best, but the Sony support was great, and had the problem resolved in 20 minutes. It works as expected.
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Summary: Not what you think it is...
Review: i had this on my wish list thinking it would give my pc bluetooth capabilities. not the case. i realized it appeared to be more of a dongle/port converter than a wireless device. one end is a usb A port. the other end has some very small female port with 4 contacts. i've never seen this latter port type on any of my bluetooth devices... or anywhere for that fact.upon connecting it to my pc- it wasnt usb hot detected. after a scan for new hardware it still wasnt recognized. being this came with no documentation or software... it was a waste. if you know what it is- go for it, but its definately _not_ a device to give your pc bluetooth capabilities.
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Summary: Toothless Bluetooth
Review: I have a Dell Axim x30 and hoped to communicate with by Dell windows xp desktop through this device. After many hours of trying the only service that works is the file transfer. Bluetooth through this USB adapter is not ready for primetime.
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Summary: Works Great! - Work and Home.
Review: I have an HP iPaq 1945 that has built-in Bluetooth. I have an HP N1000C and use the F8T001 to sync with my iPaq. Works great! I keep my notebook in my office and I can still stay syncronized with my notebook while I work in a lab next door (50+ feet away and 3 walls away). I also loaded the software on my home system so that I can wirelessly sync my home Outlook (Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, etc.) with my office. You can also browse with my iPaq wirelessly using the Bluetooth connection, both at work and home. I'm running XP Pro on my work and home systems and had no, none, zip, nothing... go wrong. For those people that have had problems I don't know what to tell you. I had none of the issues you have mentioned. J. Russell
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Summary: Bad Range
Review: I have an IPaq Pocket PC 2215 and the Range is very poor with this device even though is a class 1 device for 100 meters. Return it and change it for a Linksys. What a diference! The linksys Rocks!!!! The range is double or triple. My advice is stay way from this device and buy the linksys instead.
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Summary: Does NOT work & HORRENDOUS customer service
Review: I have never been more dissatisfied with a product and customer service. F8T001 does NOT work with my Nokia 3600 phone - despite 8+ hours with customer support from Nokia & Belkin. The people at Belkin - save 1 - were unhelpful to extremely rude.
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Summary: Does NOT work & HORRENDOUS customer service
Review: I have never been more dissatisfied with a product and customer service. F8T001 does NOT work with my Nokia 3600 phone - despite 8+ hours with customer support from Nokia & Belkin. The people at Belkin - save 1 - were unhelpful to extremely rude.
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Summary: Win XP BSOD- WOW
Review: I haven't seen the BSOD (blue screen of death) in a while! How exciting! Never seemed to want to work with XP (even though it is supposed to be compatible)which kept telling me a local connection was unplugged. Once I tried to actually make a connection from a device, my pc would crash every few minutes. My PC experience goes back to 286's so I'm not a total doof, but, this is bad news. Maybe a newer version of the adapter will work, but only if you've got the courage to risk it.
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Summary: it works, it's just a little clunky
Review: i picked this up for the same reason several other readers did: i wanted to be able to move pictures, sound, and my phonebook from my phone to my laptop and back. i use a thinkpad x31 using windows xp for this task. use the supplid drivers from the cd, they're much better than anything windows will attempt to do. and it will just work, unlike what windows may create. browsing with the supplied belkin software is clunky and ackward, not nearly as fluid as it could be. it's most definitely not as smooth as it is under Mac OS X, but hey, that's what you get. it works, i get to move pictures around on my phone and my contact list without a cable. but it's prone to fits of delays and ackwardness. i'm wishing there was better integration with windows xp right now, xp sp2 supposedly has smoother bluetooth software and browsing. i wish the belkin sofware worked as nicely. as it stands, this isn't the convenient device i hoped it would be, but i'll keep using it.
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Summary: Belkin F8T001 has XP SP2 Root Canal
Review: I purchased the Belkin Bluetooth F8T001 USB Adapter so that I could synch my IPAQ 1945 PDA. However, after software installation, I could only get "BTTray: Incorrect License type" and "Error - Unable to start Stack Service."
When I contacted Belkin Tech Support, I was told that the problem was caused by the Microsoft Service Pack 2. According to Belkin, Microsoft has included their own version of Bluetooth in SP2, and it is not compatible with the Belkin adapter. When I asked for their suggestions, they replied that I should "uninstall SP2." They told me that SP1 "works with some devices," and XP works with everything. I asked when they were going to update their drivers to work with this adapter, and they said that they didn't know. "Microsoft had not yet published their interfaces." My feeling was that as far as the company Tech Support was concerned, the device works OK with XP original, so any problems I am having are just my tuogh luck.
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