Pulsar 590 Cordless Headset

MPN: PULSAR590A

Description: The Plantronics Pulsar? 590 Series Bluetooth? Stereo Headsets deliver the ultimate in wireless freedom! Seamlessly switch between your Bluetooth phone and your favorite music or movie so you?ll never miss a call. With up to 12 hours of talk time and 10 hours of listen time, ... read more

The Plantronics Pulsar? 590 Series Bluetooth? Stereo Headsets deliver the ultimate in wireless freedom! Seamlessly switch between your Bluetooth phone and your favorite music or movie so you?ll never miss a call. With up to 12 hours of talk time and 10 hours of listen time, you can enjoy wireless stereo listening on laptops, PCs, TVs, DVD and MP3 players. minimize

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Great for traveling with a laptop- music + Skype

Started Jun 13, 2006

Strengths: Very nice hard shell case

Weaknesses: Weak documentation

I'm using this with a Dell D400 laptop that has built in Toshiba bluetooth (Dell Truemobile 350 module that took five minutes to install- $26 on Ebay). Setup was pretty straight forward and it seems to work great for what I wanted. Two different modes really, a stereo music mode, and a headset mode for phone use. If there's a way to have both at once, I haven't figured it out yet, as I switch back and forth. The stereo mode works great with iTunes or WMP, with the track buttons on the headset, too. I have found out in that mode the bluetooth signal is more sensitive to walls than shear range. Walking very far doesn't work if there are walls in between. The headset mode works great with Skype. I haven't tried it with a cell phone, but that's where the two modes are supposed to work simultaneously. I'm very pleased- $109 with shipping, and it's everything I wanted.

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Pennywaffer

Replied Jul 3, 2006

I can't seem to make it work with Skype. I have a Dell Inspiron 2200 and WInXP professional, and a Belkin Version 2.0 Bluetooth adapter.

If I pair and connect the pulsar 590a in headset mode, it will just function for a few seconds and then stop transferring. It will still be connected, but the sound and mic won't work. After I press the call button twice (thus switching away and back to headset mode) it will work for a few seconds again before it goes dead, and so on. The high quality bluetooth audio doesn't work at all.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Using the headphones with the universal adapter works great, haven't tried it with with a cellphone yet.

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