I just managed to get my little Motorola HS820 working as a headset on my desktop PC. This O’Reilly article on Getting Your Bluetooth Headset to Work in XP was helpful – although I didn’t have to install new drivers, the step-by-step was useful, and once I switched over the audio in/out devices in the Control Panel, system sounds, Yahoo Messenger, Skype, and MSN Messenger all work fine over Bluetooth. Sweet!

For some reason I still haven’t been able to make it work on my little Thinkpad X40, probably because it’s running SP1 & a different BT stack…

I was trying to get my X40 to do plain-old dial-up networking to a traditional dialup ISP over Bluetooth, and I came across these instructions for using Cingular’s GPRS service over Bluetooth. Amazingly enough, it worked! Too bad I already paid $9.95 for a Boingo daypass. ;(