Doug

Your ebay link is no longer valid. Please let me know what adaptor you found.

Anyway, I think the problem lies with the Pulsar pendant not the adaprtor.  I have tried 3 such adaptors and had the same results with all of them.  The VX8100 required the least shimmying.

Doug

I just got it today and it plugs right in and works like a charm, so all of the contacts are lined up correctly. The VX8100 adapter definately has a slightly different plug.

I’ve also been playing with this headset with Linux and have gotten it to work a little with a2dpd/plugz/bluetooth-alsa:
http://bluetooth-alsa.sourceforge.net/build.html

It also works with Mac OS X with the following workaround:
http://david.connolly.name/blog/hub/mac/2007/02/23/Stereo-Bluetooth-Profile-A2DP-on-Mac-OS-X-Tiger.html?page=comments

I hope you are wrong about that adapter. I just ordered one from PPC Techs. So, hopefully it will work. I am not optomistic, however, because none of the cheap adapters I tried worked.

I think the problems you are experiencing are more likely associated with your device than the headphones. Although I experienced some minor skipping, I have not had any of teh problems you described.

Doug

The adapter I linked above for the LG VX8100 only works with the Pulsar 260 if it is slightly out of the jack. On closer inspection the separators for the adapter are slightly closer together than the ones on the Pulsar’s headphone plug. One of these jacks is not standard (or perhaps there are 2 standards). That’s very annoying.

Both of the following *look* about the same as the Pulsar’s plug. I’m going to order the $0.99 one and see if it works. Of course, these don’t have microphones.
http://www.oemcellphone.com/productdetail.asp?productid=2350&refid=shopzilla
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-5mm-to-3-5mm-Adaptor-Earphone-Jack-Cell-Phone-PDA_W0QQitemZ150119484359QQihZ005QQcategoryZ86541QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

The other bad news is the range/reliability of this unit. On my first use it was cutting out quite often. I finally realized that when my arm passed on front of the unit it would cut out. Further testing showed that it worked a decent distance away (although not nearly 33 feet) but only if there was nothing obstructing its “view”. It could only handle very small obstructions, such as a single hand, and only at close range.

Now, this could be because of the MacBook Pro I was testing with, although I doubt it, or because I was using a hack to make A2DP work, although I doubt that as well. More likely it’s because this is only a Class 2 Bluetooth device and not a Class 1 device. I’m going to test with a few other things but if this doesn’t clear up I’m pondering getting a Class 1 device instead (the Motorola S705).

Doug