[SWLUG] Beware Bluetooth keyboards

[Dave Cridland]

As I recall, Samsung phones are particularly crap at supporting bluetooth
keyboards.

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.

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).

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.

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).
On Nov 12, 2012 9:33 AM, "Steve Hill" <steve at nexusuk.org> wrote:

> On 12.11.12 08:56, Neil Jones wrote:
>
> > There is the possibility of rooting the phone but I'd rather not do that.
> > If I want a decent keyboard facility I think a proper larger pad is
> > going to be the answer at some point.
> > This just looked like a cheap possibility.
>
> As far as phones with decent keyboards go, I can recommend the Samsung
> Captivate Glide - its basically a Galaxy S II with a slide out keyboard.
>   Not quite as nice a form factor as the HTC Dream was, but I still find
> it much nicer to use than a keyboardless phone.  Unfortunately not
> available in the UK - I ebayed it from the US.
>
>
> --
>
>   - Steve
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