After all the hassles of the Belkin Bluetooth USB adaptor, I was not expecting an easy time with my replacement — but I was most pleasantly surprised. The Linksys USBBT100 Class 1 device is small, looks like a tiny Linksys unit (blue and black and kind curved-rectangular) and has a little black antenna that rotates up. But the best part is this: I installed the software, plugged it in when prompted, rebooted as instructed (why is this necessary with Windows 2000?) and it just worked. I’m ecstatic.
I immediately saw my iPAQ and T610, paired with the phone and was able to browse and copy objects from it, including the images that have been piling up.
Next step: figure out how to get it to sync over BT instead of IR.
After my frustrations with Linksys over their really poor 802.11g PC cards, I was hesitant to try this out, but it looks like they did a really good job.
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