<p>As I recall, Samsung phones are particularly crap at supporting bluetooth keyboards.</p>
<p>Also note that there are two different bluetooth keyboard protocols; HID and serial. Older devices (such as Nokias) only support serial; newer devices (iPhone, Android) only support HID.</p>
<p>Finally, HID, like its USB cousin, can support multiple HID concepts on one device (so mouse+keyboard), whereas serial cannot - but many phones will only see one function. (I've not seen this be anything but the keyboard, mind).</p>
<p>But anyway... My son's Samsung won't do anything with my cheapo keyboard; whereas I think I've had it running on my Motorola Pro+, though it has a hardware keyboard. Both are Gingerbread or so. His Nexus 7 works fine with it, but (I think) only handles the keyboard side.</p>
<p>I do have a posher HID-only keyboard, but I lent that to a friend and haven't tried it. I've also a bluetooth mouse I've not played with in a while (which worked with my now-dead N8, and should be quite useful on my TF101).</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 12, 2012 9:33 AM, "Steve Hill" <<a href="mailto:steve@nexusuk.org">steve@nexusuk.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 12.11.12 08:56, Neil Jones wrote:<br>
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> There is the possibility of rooting the phone but I'd rather not do that.<br>
> If I want a decent keyboard facility I think a proper larger pad is<br>
> going to be the answer at some point.<br>
> This just looked like a cheap possibility.<br>
<br>
As far as phones with decent keyboards go, I can recommend the Samsung<br>
Captivate Glide - its basically a Galaxy S II with a slide out keyboard.<br>
Not quite as nice a form factor as the HTC Dream was, but I still find<br>
it much nicer to use than a keyboardless phone. Unfortunately not<br>
available in the UK - I ebayed it from the US.<br>
<br>
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--<br>
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- Steve<br>
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