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This is a lesson in not buying from sketchy companies unfortunately. They don't, as far as I am seeing, advertise PC compatibility. So you are out of luck there. Return them if you can and buy something better.
Jabra is an old, well-known brand.
Why anyone would buy their garbage is beyond me, not that that excuses how they treat their marks^Wcustomers.
This is a blatant abuse and they should be sued and shut down. This is beyond unacceptable. There is no reason to do this kind of thing.
The obvious reason for doing this kind of thing is their target market & 99.9% of sales are to people using them with phones, so Jabra has no business reason to spend money providing customer support for PC interoperability.
It was super annoying, as they kept muting me mid-sentence, but since turning this option I haven't faced this issue anymore.
My Jabra Elite 85h over-ear headphones suffer from the same issue. These are Wirecutter's suggested Bluetooth headphones, which is why I bought them. I wonder if they still would be if it was widely known that these headphones are not meant to be used with computers.
The only info I found about supporting other laptops (it mentions phones, tablets, and mobile devices?) was in their help faqs:
https://www.jabra.com/supportpages/jabra-elite-85t/100-99190...
Which basically says it won't fully function... but it might work with MS teams?
I wonder what data they're collecting with the mobile app, whether it's being monetized to support development, or simply that they don't care about a fairly common use case.
Had the same issue with my 75t Elite on OSX with Slack Huddles. It seems like the root cause was the "Enable automatic gain control", or something along those lines. It was super annoying, as they kept muting me mid-sentence, but since turning this option I haven't faced this issue anymore.
This is a lesson in not buying from sketchy companies unfortunately. They don't, as far as I am seeing, advertise PC compatibility. So you are out of luck there. Return them if you can and buy something better.
I'd hope they lose the Bluetooth label and certification for this kind of crap, but we know nothing will happen.