Softick Audio Gateway Review

I bought my husband and I both the Plantronics 855 Bluetooth Headsets and recieved them last Tuesday. He had no problems getting his to pair with his Muziq. I on the other hand was having trouble. So I did a search and found this software and of course downloaded the trial. I LOVE IT! I works great with my Treo 755p. I would highly recommend both the headset and the software.

Buyer Beware: If you are using a subscription music service like Yahoo Music with Pocket Tunes, you will not be able to listen to your DRM music using Pocket Tunes and the Softick Audio Gateway. When I contacted the developer of Pocket Tunes about this, they said that they specifically disable playing of DRM tunes through Bluetooth due to their licensing agreement with Microsoft. ACK!!!

To Author: In fact, “Faster Analysis” will not provide better audio quality. Otherwise there is no sense in this option: why to choose between better/faster and worse/slower? Just try to tap on "Faster Speed" and "Better Quality" preset buttons and see how this option changed depending on preset.
I noted that "Faster analysis" provides much better device performance but sound is not too deep and nice comparing to slower analysis for the better quality.

Softick makes some great products! I think this should be included as standard software on all palm os phones. I have used it for probably 1 yr+ and the first few versions were pretty bad, so if you tried it before I highly recommend giving it another shot. The new version is a lot better. My Moto S9 works great with it and is lightweight. The stereo even now works on Sprint TV, Sprint Music, and internet radio based in pTunes- which is an upgrade! My one tip is if you want the best quality while at the gym, turn off phone feature or multiple email accounts can make it slow down a little.

Robust??? You gotta be kidding me! I have used the software for 2+ years and I love the functionality ... but on both the Treo 650 and the 680 it makes the phone WAY more unstable. A lot more involuntary resets, etc.

I think it's worth it not to have to fight with the wires all the time and I love my Plantronics 855 headset.

They've also had countless problems that each new sub-release fixes a few bugs and creates other ones. I've been through at least 6 different versions of this software in the last 2+ years ... all have bugs and all make the phone much less stable.

don't be foolish

if you want to listen to music on your phone, upgrade your Palm to an Apple iPhone

it's that simple

Great software, ZERO customer support. You can send a billion emails and they will not reply. So if you buy the software, understand they will not help you out.

I actually did get a fairly fast response from them after I sent them a blazing email complaining about the DRM business. Really a bummer because the software works absolutely fantastically with my 680 in my Pioneer car bluetooth kit with purchased music. But I already have an Ipod wired into my car for purchased music so I don't need another device for that. I need one that will play the DRM music through my stereo. Any ideas out there?

I purchased this earlier this week to pair my Motorola HT820 Bluetooth Headphones with my Palm Centro. The sounds is good but two main glitches. There is a one second pause in sound, probably every 30 seconds. Very annoying. I even tried lowering the sound quality so it does not take that much memory but it still does not work.

Also, it has caused my Centro to lock up twice already this week. A real pain in the ass to remove the battery and reboot the phone each time.

I anxiously wait for the next update to fix these bugs.