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Logitech Mobile Freedom Bluetooth Headset. As I was contemplating making angry calls to my hosting provider last week when they shut down MaisonBisson for a couple days, it occurred to me that I would rather make those calls via SkypeOut or some similar service that didn’t reveal my home phone number. After all, I wouldn’t want an angry sysop to take revenge by having a spare modem call me up every 27 minutes between the hours of midnight and seven AM.

I’m ashamed to admit that it was at that moment that I decided to buy a Bluetooth headset. Trust me, I’d been thinking about it for a while and I had other, good uses in mind, but that was the moment.

My Logitech Mobile Freedom Bluetooth Headset arrived Saturday, but I only tried to pair a few moments ago.

You can probably imagine my shock when the OS X Bluetooth Setup Assistant told me my hardware didn’t support headsets. As it turns out, I hadn’t bothered to install the Bluetooth firmware update, released all the way back in November 2004. The big clue arrived in this MacDevCenter article about Bluetooth headsets and OS X.

But with the Bluetooth update installed, I quickly paired the headset with my 15“ aluminum PowerBook and was able to configure iChat to use it. None of my logged-in buddies were audio chat enabled, though, so I ambled over to Gizmo Project, a VOIP app similar to Skype. I was making calls in no time, and the recorded conversations reveal good sound quality from both ends of the call.

Then, with a change in the OS X System Preferences app, I was routing all audio output to the headset and listening to iTunes. Audio quality with music sounded like 22 KHz, but I didn’t buy this monophonic headset to listen to music.

tags: bluetooth, bluetooth firmware update, bluetooth headset, bluetooth headsets, gizmo project, gizmoproject, ichat, logitech, logitech mobile freedom, mac os x, mobile, skype, wireless

Posted October 9, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: bluetooth, bluetooth firmware update, bluetooth headset, bluetooth headsets, gizmo project, gizmoproject, ichat, logitech, logitech mobile freedom, mac os X, mobile, skype, wireless.

4 Comments

Pingback by MaisonBisson.com » Blog Archive » Bluetooth Headset Problems on October 12, 2005 8:32 am
[...] I’m still excited about that Bluetooth headset I got last week, but I did encounter a little problem with it. Rather, I encountered a problem with Mac OS X and the Bluetooth headset. I don’t remember all the precipitating details, but the obvious threshold event was when Gizmo Project complained that it couldn’t find the headset. I tried deleting the configuration and re-pairing, but aside from some momentary linkages, it was all for nada. [...]
Pingback by MaisonBisson.com » Blog Archive » Pepper Pad As Multipurpose VoIP Device on October 14, 2005 7:36 am
[...] I’m quite taken with my new Bluetooth headset, despite the little hiccup I encountered. So, naturally, I’m thinking about how it would work with the VoIP softphone that’s promised for the Pepper Pad soon. I’ve become a super-fan of Gizmo Project on my PowerBook, but that loaner Pepper Pad was a capable enough and more than portable enough machine that it has me wondering if I’d rather have a desktop Mac and a Pepper Pad when upgrade times comes. It has me wondering, anyway. [...]
Comment by Kat on June 14, 2006 7:06 pm
Thinking of buying one, specifically the BlueAnt X5 Stereo Bluesooth Headset but reading the discussions on the apple forum it all seems to tricky! I bought a mac because things just work, but it looks like bluetooth headsets are one thing that doesn’t “just work!

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Comment by ed on March 17, 2007 5:19 pm
a new version of this updater software
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/firmware_hardware/bluetoothfirmwareupdate121ppc.html

I use 10.4.8

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