IOGear Enhanced Data Rate Bluetooth USB Adapter with Range up to 66 ft. GBU221 by IOGEAR
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Digital camera reviews of IOGear Enhanced Data Rate Bluetooth USB Adapter with Range up to 66 ft. GBU221
Digital camera Review: Works Great but Supplied Product Manual, Installation CD, and Drivers are Useless
Summary: 4 Stars
Back Story:
I specifically bought this dongle because the official Microsoft Windows Vista compatibility web page states that this product is compatible with my 64 bit version of Vista. Also note: this is my THIRD dongle. I first purchased the $1.00 mini dongle listed on Amazon. That only worked on my XP computer. Then I bought the BTT004 listed here on Amazon because user reviews stated it works with Vista. It does, but only the 32 bit version. As you can see, I really wanted this product to work! I specifically wanted it to work with my bluetooth headset.
Review:
The manual that comes with the product is outdated and wrong. The installation CD fails because it can't find setup.exe! Things were not looking good. Then I remembered that someone on Amazon reviewed this product and stated that you need to download the latest drivers directly from IOGear. A quick review of Microsoft's Vista Compatibility website also states a download is required. After the new drivers were installed, it all worked!
Summary:
Just download the drivers from IOGear first. Ignore the manual. Don't use the installation CD. Then plug in the dongle and get working.
Rating:
I'm so happy that I finally got a dongle that works with Vista 64! I wish I could give this a 5 star rating, but the useless product manual and CD would most likely cause non computer-savvy types to give up. They are only useful for taking up space in a landfill. I also wish they had a micro version of this dongle. They are safer to use in laptop USB ports.
Digital camera Review: Works Great with Vista
Summary: 4 Stars
The main reason I got it was to use my new Motorola H500 headphones with Skype, and everything works great. Range is good too. I also put pics and ringtones on my cell phone.
I'm using it with Vista Premium and there are no problems.
It doesn't deserve 5 stars because it is a little thick which makes it tough to put 2 flash drives next to each other.
Digital camera Review: Works Great!!
Summary: 4 Stars
This item worked great for the reason purchased - sync Palm Tx and Blackberry. No choice since Palm does not support Vista 64.Digital camera Review: Works fine with Vista 64bits
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the bluetooth because I needed to sync my Palm with the desktop on Windows Vista 64bit, but I could use it for many other components including my cell phone.
In addition, I defined a serial port and it works excellent.
Digital camera Review: Works great on Vista 64
Summary: 5 Stars
I did quite a bit of searching for a USB Blue tooth device that would work on Vista 64 bit and stumbled across this one. It had mixed reviews but I figured I'd give it a shot. So far this has worked exceptionally well. The device came with a CD that included all the necessary installation items complete with the device driver. My wife (who doesn't know much about computers) was the one to actually get the device up and working. It took about 15 minutes of setup but after that it was working. I definitely recommend this item. I will offer this tip, I took about 2 minutes after installation for it to finally pick other blue tooth devices so if it doesn't work right away give it a few minutes.