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Wireless Headsets?

Posted by Cliff on from the look-ma-no-hands! dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "My girlfriend has moved off to grad school on the opposite side of the country, and we've been video conferencing over GnomeMeeting instead of using the phone (we don't have landline phones, only cell phones, so we can't use the phone before 9pm w/o burning through minutes). GnomeMeeting works well, but we are tethered to our computers by our headsets (since headsets seem necessary to prevent echoing). Are there any inexpensive wireless computer headsets with microphones out there? I saw the DIY Bluetooth headset story, but I don't feel like scrounging for parts this time... I want to by a working headset right now. I've seen $200+ headsets out there. Are there headsets out there with roughly 20 meter range for less than $100?"

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  1. You mean like the Logitech Cordless Headset? by toybuilder · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.hellodirect.com/catalog/Product.jhtml?C ATID=2011&PRODID=13669

  2. Fixed URL by toybuilder · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's the corrected link.
    $99 from HelloDirect. Cheaper elsewhere, I'm sure.

  3. IBM.. by tongue · · Score: 3, Informative

    IBM has a headset-phone which is wireless, and more importantly, which can be plugged into your computer as a microphone and speaker. its got great pickup, decent speaker, a speakerphone in the base, good battery life, and i paid 100 for one at sam's club, if i recall correctly. great deal, especially if you intend to get a landline at some point in the future. I'd give you a model # but i can't remember what it was, and i loaned mine to my brother.

  4. A driver problem by skinfitz · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have two Ericsson Bluetooth headsets - an old HBH-10 and the curvy HBH-30. They both support the bluetooth "audio" profile, and I have some bluetooth cards for my PC's. Does anyone know (yes, I've tried google!) if anyone has produced (or is working on) drivers so that these headsets can be used as an audio device in windows? It just seems so obvious to make something like that.

    The alternative solution is to make something similar to that guy who made his own headset and make a headset that connects to something that connects to your soundcard - in this case one would be emulating the functionality of a traditional cabled headset.