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My unit came totally unbranded–it’s a nondescript black stick that could be mistaken for a flash drive easily. Part of why I bought this is because the Amazon page said that it was USB 2.0 and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. The packaging doesn’t really indicate whether or not the device support EDR, but I’m just going to go ahead and assume that it does, hoping the seller wouldn’t lie on their Amazon page if they didn’t know what they were talking about. Can anyone confirm this?

I tested this with two of my machines; one running Fedora 10 and another running Windows 7 RC1. The device was installed automatically in both cases and appears to work flawlessly–there was no need to supply drivers other than the ones that Fedora already shipped with or that Windows 7 downloaded from Microsoft. Some reviewers claimed that this device is not Linux compatible, but it’s utter nonsense and I doubt that the people who wrote that even actually use Linux or tried it in the past 10 years.

I bought this device so I could connect my Motorola wireless headset to my computer for making Skype calls. I never had any experience with using Bluetooth on the PC (previously I could only use the headset with my mobile phone), but I had no trouble setting this up, and it works great. This thing was worth a lot more than the $5 I paid for it, so if you don’t have any computers with Bluetooth I can’t think of a reason why you shouldn’t buy this (or similar bargain); Bluetooth has a lot of great uses with common hardware, and hopefully it will come standard on more machines in the future.

Easy to install on Vista, works great. Just wish it was a little more durable….I droped it and it fell apart…. I snaped it back together and it works just fine though….