Windows Phone Thoughts: PDA2K Owners Petition Carrier Devices for Bluetooth Fix

There seems to be some trouble brewing: PDA2K owners are petitioning Carrier Devices for a fix for a serious Bluetooth problem related to headsets. There's a thread on Pocket PC Dubai about it, but the people running the Club iMate site (which is run by Carrier Devices) have deleted the thread that everyone is referencing, so it's difficult to know what's going on. It took a fair bit of digging to figure out exactly what they were complaining about, but I found it on page four of the Pocket PC Dubai PDA2K review:

"Bluetooth doesn't hold the connection. If you connect - say - a headset to your i-mate, the connection works perfectly (great sound!). Leave it in a sleep mode for approx. 10 minutes... and it will never wake up (even if the connected device icon is still there!)...I tried with three different headset: Jabra, Motorola and SE: same problem. I checked with a friend PDA2K, and he got the same problem too."

For those that rely on Bluetooth headsets, this is what's called a "showstopper bug" - it completely bars people from using the device in the way that it's intended. If you're a PDA2K owner interested in following up on this, read this Pocket PC Dubai thread. And for anyone else interested in petitioning an OEM for change, host the petition on your own site where the OEM can't delete it. ;-)