I bought this so I could sync my Palm Centro to Outlook 07 on my laptop without having to get out the usb cable every time. I'm running XP Home edition and the only issue I had was figuring out what port to set Hotsync to. But after I set it to the right port it worked great.

For the price I would definitely recommend this to someone who gets tired of the cable every time you want to sync and don't have built in bluetooth on your computer.

My primary reason for getting this dongle was to use my bluetooth headset to listen to music on my pc at work. Got the dongle in the mail a few days after I ordered, but didn't get the software cd with it.. so I downloaded the latest version of Bluesoleil. Well, this didn't work well at all. It would connect, then it wouldn't. It wouldn't play music in stereo. So I did a lot of reading on the internet... Tried using the windows bluetooth driver, and it wouldn't play any music. So then I read that the bluesoleil software before version 6.2 worked much better. So I downloaded version 6.0.227.0 and it is working perfectly now.

I didn't think the dongle was providing A2DP, but it was the software, not the hardware. I was getting ready to buy a new (name brand) dongle, but this $0.99 dongle works great!!!

If anyone is having issues with the dongle, try searching for version 6.0.227.0 of the software!

Does not work with all my electronics ... Just one headset ...
Dont really know what to say ?
For the headset use its 3 stars ..

It seem slike everyone likes this item... i bought it so i could know for my self.I give it a 1 as well for the low shiping... i even put a expited shipping and yet i have not recieved in 5 days now... there were no credit problems... all i know is that it isnt here yet... but everyone seems to think positive so i am going to add 3 more stars .. now it is 4 stars... but i dont know i am so anxious and i think it is going to be worth it...

I bought this primarily to use with Skype on Windows Vista. The shipping took about a week to get to me, which isn't too bad.

It comes with IVT BlueSoleil version 2.7 which is outdated (the newest one is 6.2). I initially had problems getting this to work with Skype and my bluetooth headset, so I tried the newest version of BlueSoleil. This actually worked worse (kept saying my microphone wasn't configured correctly in skype), so I went back to the version included with the USB Bluetooth Adapter. The 2nd time I installed it, I got it to work without too much trouble. The program isn't entirely obvious to use if you've never dealt with bluetooth. The scanning for bluetooth devices and pairing between the adapter and your bluetooth device makes sense, but once it is recognized you should be sure to search the device for services so that you can enable the device to do whatever it is that it is supposed to do.

The BlueSoleil program does interface with skype so that you can answer and hang up your calls using your headset (if supported on the headset).

I found the range to be not good despite what other say. I can't walk much further than about 6 feet from my computer before it starts to get crackly and bad reception. This may be because my computer is in a corner and when I walk away the signal has to travel through a wall. I have not tried it in a wide open scenario so I cannot comment on that. But it definitely does not go through walls very well!

In general (and this may apply more directly to my headset [plantronics 520] than to the receiver) the sound quality is good but there is definitely some static/crackling every once in awhile. So it's not really a clean sound/connection. It's usually not enough to bother me or the other party and generally people say I sound clear using the device.

If I were to do it all again, I think I would buy a higher quality adapter so that I can be sure the crackling/static is not the fault of my bluetooth adapter. For what it's worth the crackling is also present on when connected to my cell phone so it could be my headset's fault.

I have to say bluetooth is a pretty disappointing technology and is not well implemented with current Windows Operating Systems in that it requires third party software and is not simply plug and play.

But for $5, you can't really go wrong with this product.