Product Description

Product Name: USB-250 Bluetooth USB Adapter

Marketing Information:

The USB-250 Bluetooth USB Adapter is one of the first Bluetooth adapter world-wide to follow the new Bluetooth 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) standard. Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR offers a three times higher data transmission rate. It has an improved performance with several simultaneous connections and is fully backward compatible to previous Bluetooth versions.

Wireless Specifications

Frequency Band/Bandwidth Details: 2.4 GHz to 2.4835 GHz Bluetooth 2.0 ISM Band

Transmission Speed: 2.5Mbps Bluetooth

Interfaces/Ports

Host Interface: USB 2.0

Physical Characteristics

Dimensions: 1.97" x 0.75" x 0.31"

Warranty

Standard Warranty: 2 Year(s)

Product Details

• Brand: Anycom
• Model: CC3036
• Platform: Windows
• Dimensions: .31" h x 1.97" w x .75" l, .2 pounds
• Networking: USB

Features

• Anycom Bluetooth 400 ft USB adapter
• Bluetooth USB Adapter is one of the first Bluetooth adapter
• Follow the new Bluetooth 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR)

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Customer Reviews

Great Product
This product deserves a five, but since I only had it for a short time. I did not want to jump the gun. It connects greatly with my Plantronics 510 headset, my Palm TX and with my Razr phone; which pretty much is all the bluetooth enabled devices I currently own. It has made me wonder what else can I add to my system that supports bluetooth. So far I had no problems with it interfereing with my Wifi network, which is a good thing. I read that bluetooth can cause collisions when data is transmitted over a wifi network, as both wifi and bluetooth use the same frequency range, but while wifi listens before tansmitting, bluetooth does not. However, this is a bluetooth 2.0 device which suppose to work better within a Wifi network, however my other devices are not bluetooth 2. Yet everything works well.

Thus I can safely say this is a good product, and works flawlessly and safely in a mixed wireless environment.

Works great with Windows XP
Excellent support for Windows XP including the ever-elusive Stereo Audio support for bluetooth headsets.

Be sure to go to the anycom website and get the latest 5.x version of the software and update the firmware.

I love the size. It's tiny.

Excellent product,, but beware Activesync setup
Having tried other Bluetooth USB devices, this one is small, with excellent range, and works like a champ.

That being said, it is possible you may experience setup difficulties and range limitations that are of no fault of this device. First, to get better range, BOTH devices, not just this adapter, need to be long range Bluetooth devices. Second, there is only one maker of Bluetooth software for Windoze that I am aware of, and ALL products use it (Widdcom), so they all suffer equally from its shortcomings. This device does appear to have a solid recent version of it though, and the web site offers good support and updates.

In particular, setting up a PocketPC device to use ActiveSync can be a real head-banger. This is NOT the fault of this (or any other) Bluetooth device, but the extremely poor documentation with ActiveSync and Windows Mobile. The key is that you must establish the serial connection over Bluetooth first, note the port number, set that port number in the PS side of Activesync, THEN go to your PDA and set it up there. Failure to do things in this order will result in no "Activesync" checkbox showing up on your PDA when making the connection, and without that they will never, ever talk. Also, even after you get things right on the PC side, unless you delete the old association on your PDA and create a new one, the PDA will not see the new Activesync port, leading you to believe (incorrectly) things are still not setup right on your PC.

But as I said, this is Microsoft's fault, not the adapter's. This is an excellent product.