http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/ Engadget Comments for Plantronic's Voyager 510-USB Bluetooth headset: a first for enterprise VoIP softphones http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/
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I have the 500, and it works perfectly with my Treo and my Mac and Skype and whatnot. All you have to do is add it as a Bluetooth device, and it will show up in the Sound preferences as a possible audio device.

OS X is wonderful :-)

Wout.]]>May 17th 2006 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/May 17th 2006 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/May 17th 2006 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/
Given this, save your pennies and get the Sony Ericsson HBH-300 - an excellent bluetooth headset which does at least have headset answer for Skype.

As for corporate rollouts of bluetooth headsets for VOIP - dream on. We have IBM/Lenovo X and T series laptops with built in bluetooth. It requires a manual hack of the ini files of 3rd party drivers just to get the headset profile to work. All Bluetooth USB dongles I have encountered have similar nasty low level problems that have to be worked around. All this utterly defies our attempts at automation meaning rollouts cant happen. Microsoft Windows Bluetooth support needs alot of maturing.

This wasnt a rant - honest. well. maybe a little bit. Bluetooth promised me so much, but delivered so little thus far (sniff sniff).]]>May 17th 2006 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/
Thomas]]>May 17th 2006 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/May 17th 2006 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/I recently purchased a combined USB/BT Motorola device, combined with their H500 earpiece/mic. After some trial and error it worked nicely with Skype. But then THE problem.... ALL my PC's audio now had to be played thru the H500 earpiece including MP3s etc (they sounded lousy, as you would exxpect). I need a BT attachment and earpiece which does not completely hi-jack my entire audio system. And Yes I did call Motorola support, they seemed quite ahppy with the audio hi-jacking! Which devices would meet my needs?]]>May 17th 2006 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/I read it and I think the it people were correctly labeled "IT drones" and "pansies.
Wake Up!
Learn something new.
If everything in cubical land was runny as it should we accountants would not be desperately searching Engadget for answers.
So shut you whining and take note:
Make getting the technology into our grey cubical lives easy rather than giving lectures on meaningless semantics.
Good Grief.
Talk about proving the authors point.]]>May 17th 2006 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/]]>May 17th 2006 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/I'm NOT a pansy... I'm not, I'm not, I'm NOT.

A bit defensive of your masculinity? 4 out of 11 posts were defensive, and unless you felt you were in that demographic [pansy + IT drone = you] it wouldn't have mattered.

]]>May 17th 2006 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/
I'm sure the 510 would be the same way.]]>May 17th 2006 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/May 17th 2006 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/
Another question is whether the earpiece and software (PerSonoCall) will work without the dongle for people who already have Bluetooth built-into their laptops. The software is a free download:

http://www.plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/support/softwaredownloads/personocall.jhtml

...so if the dongle isn't going to be necessary, you'd save $100 by buying the earpiece alone.

http://www.plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/products/cat1150057/cat1150057/prod5460010
]]>May 17th 2006 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/
BTW, I am not sure the author is aware of the potential problems of running Skype on enterprise corporate networks but that's another topic.]]>May 18th 2006 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/From: Kingdom, Kelly [kelly.kingdom@plantronics.com]
To: Oblak, Daniel
Sent: Fri May 19 14:07:12 2006
Subject: Plantronics Product

Dan,

There are no plans to create a PersonoCall that will be compatible with a MAC.

Thank You
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CONTACT REQUEST
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Topic: suggestion
Name: Dan Oblak
Message: Cisco now provides a soft phone client for MacOS X (finally!) for CallManager (5.x for Windows, or 4.5 for Linux). Is there any chance we might see a MacOS X version of PerSonoCall in the next 12 months?]]>May 20th 2006 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/plantronics-voyager-510-usb-bluetooth-headsets-a-first-for-enterprise-voip-sof/Can you please explain how you got the personocall to work on the thinkpad?
thanks]]>Jul 2nd 2006 9:46AM