I ditched my home phone and my Q is my only phone. When I am using it at home, I want a real high quality headset like you use with your PC when making calls - big headphone speakers and a nice boom mike. Here is what I tried so far. I bought the PPCADPT16 adapter from pocketpctechs, which has a 3.5mm stereo headphone jack, and a 2.5mm headset jack (I don't know if it is stereo or not). I plugged the 3.5mm headphone jack from a nice headset (designed for PC calling) into the 3.5mm headphone jack on the adapter, and I plugged the 3.5mm microphone plug from the PC headset into the 2.5mm headset jack on the adapter, using a 2.5mm to 3.5mm adapter. The headphones sound excellent, but the microphone is dead. Now, the 2.5 - 3.5 adapter is merely stereo (3 metal bands, 2 insulators). If the adapter's 2.5mm jack is truly stereo sound + mic, then it is 4 bands, 3 insulators, and I think that is my problem. I can't find that kind of 2.5 - 3.5 adapter locally, so before I keep mail ordering part after part, can anyone tell me if they have tried this and if it works? TIA!

I solved the problem if anyone else is interested. The 2.5mm jack in the adapter is not stereo, it is 3 conductor (mono headphone, mic, ground). By cutting up an old junky headset, and experimenting, I found that the mic worked if the tip of the plug and the base conductor of the plug were connected to the adapter headset jack, but the middle band (conductor) was not connected. Since the mic is a mono device (even though the 3.5mm plug on it is stereo), perhaps the middle conductor is internally connected to the base conductor and that was shorting it out. Rather than get out a soldering iron, I went for an all-adapter solution. It is bulky, but it works for what I wanted, which is sitting at home, using the Q like a home phone. Start with a Radio Shack part# 274-373, 1/8" to 3/32" adapter (aka 2.5mm to 3.5mm). To that, plug in a part # 274-883, 1/8" (3.5mm) to dual RCA plug adapter. This is key, because it gives you separate access to the tip and the center conductor. The base conductor is the ground on either RCA plug. Then plug in a part# 274-387, 1/8" (3.5mm) to Phono (RCA) adapter to the white RCA plug on the previous adapter, leaving the red one with no connection. Now you have a 3.5mm jack with just the tip and base connected, waiting for the mic plug from your high quality PC headset. Even if you aren't talking, it's cool because you have a real set of stereo headphones on instead of earbuds. It's just a bummer you can't buy something like this already, so it would be more convenient to carry around.