asking dr. geeky: Bluetooth multi-device headsets

[topaz]

My goal: a Bluetooth headset that will both allow me to take hands-free calls on my phone, and play music from a BT-enabled music player, preferably without any reconfiguration nonsense.  I.e. hitting a button on the headset to switch devices is fine, but plugging it in to a computer to reconfigure which device it's talking to is not.  I want to be able to listen to music and take calls on the fly.

The phone and music player are separate devices.

I do not require the headset to provide stereo.  A single earpiece providing a mono version of the stereo stream would be fine.

Suggestions?

I stopped in at a RatShack this morning with a surprisingly helpful fellow who looked up the specs on the BT headsets they stocked in the store and confirmed they would not do what I needed.  He suggested that what might work would be to have the music player send its music stream to the phone, and then have the headset just talk directly to the phone.  A novel approach but it sounds worth investigating.

Comments

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

My current phone is the LG VX 9800 (http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/04/lg-vx9800-glowingly-reviewed/) -- no A2DP.

What I am learning elsewhere suggests that it isn't possible for a Bluetooth device to pair with two other devices at once, which I think is what I'm asking it to do (so the headset could notice that a call is coming in and advise me appropriately, even while it's playing music from the other device). Does that sound correct to you?

[fj.livejournal.com]

Check the user reviews: people are doing exactly that. Download the manual to make sure, i haven't used it with two different devices in a while and i'm not home.