Dell DJ 20GB Gen 2 Digital Jukebox MP3 Player Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this mp3 player about 3 years ago when the 2nd gen came out. I couldn't believe I could get a 20GB player for under $200 brand new. I've been using it constantly at work ever since. I even purchased the FM receiver for it through Dell when they still carried accessories for it.
The only issue I have with it now is that the battery life is severly short. I took the unit apart and took the old battery out. I'm just waiting for the replacement battery in the mail. For those of you who run into the same issue, the battery I purchased is a higher capacity Li-Ion polymer battery with a model number of CS-DJ20SL. You can google the model number and come up with a few sources to buy it from.
I felt the need to keep my DJ alive because I already loaded up my entire CD library on it. I didn't want to turn to the dark side either and get myself a shiny, low-capacity player for over $150 when I simply had to spend roughly $20 to replace the battery in my DJ.

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Agptek Driverless Sliding Bluetooth USB dongle Support VolP calls Skype MSN USB Music & Voice (30*17.5*8mm) Review

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(More customer reviews)I recently purchased a Sony DR-BT50 bluetooth headset and a K-Mate BTT004 bluetooth dongle (oh, by the way, that's what the "Agptek Driverless Sliding Bluetooth USB dongle" really is called). I have a Dell Studio 1536 AMDX2 64bit with Windows Vista Home Premium service pack 2. I specifically bought the headset and dongle because of favorable reviews on Amazon.com.
I knew I might run into problems when I read the packaging. "BTT004 is a USB MV Dongle of automatic driving. Just plug BTT004 into USB port of PC, no need additional softare installed in the PC." Ugh... chinglish!
1) I can pair the headset to my phone. The audio sounds great.
2) I can pair the headset and dongle on my spare windows XP machine. The audio sounds great.
3) I can pair the headset and dongle on my Dell Studio 1536... however the audio sounds horrendous with a constant static crackles and pops, as if someone was crumpling up paper. When there is no sound, the headset is quite. Start playing a song on Itunes and the crackles get louder and quieter with the music.
Does the problem lie with my Dell studio 1536's audio card. Perhaps? But this dongle uses Microsoft's generic usb audio driver (usbaudio.sys). I have a feeling the problem is the audio driver. I found a potential fix online where people replace Vista's usbaudio.sys with window xp's version. This advice was nearly 2 years old and when I tried it, it didn't work for me. I lost audio to the headset. I put everything back to where it was afterwards.
In conclusion: I think I may shop around for a dongle that has it's own driver disk and doesn't rely on microsoft's generic usb audio device drivers.
Agptek and K-Mate have useless Chinese websites with no driver updates or support.
Will this dongle work for you? It worked on 50% of my computers and 100% of my cell phones. So perhaps. I, however, can not recommend this item at this time. Spend the cash for a better dongle by a brand name company.

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