This is a Poll Question for you to reply to either way. Either you Support Windows Phone 8 WITH a Physical QWERTY Keyboard, or you Support Windows Phone 8 Without a Keyboard.
I have had both physical keyboards and virtual keyboards and use to only buy a phone with a physical keyboard. Over time my habits changed, less texting and more browsing... Then it didn't make much difference with the HTC Rezound and the big screen.
It is more a personal preference.
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I have a apple bluetooth keyboard to use for my laptop and love it. But I would love to get it working on my Tilt as well. It's the version with out the number pad, so it's very small, thin and light, perfect for a portable key board to take to class in my book bag and take notes with onto my Tilt.
This youtube user got it to work but he's posted in another language and has not responded to my messages.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGx9ZNc4y00
When you pair it with the tilt, it works but shows up as a input device and does not "work" when you go to type or use the keyboard...but it shows up as a paired device on the bluetooth manager...but then again so does my bluetooth mouse, but I knew that would not work ( and I really wish it would because I would use it...I'm a geek I confess)
Honestly if I could get the key board and mouse to work, all I would need is VGA or video out and I'd use my Tilt as my home desktop...because it has all the office programs I need. That's the reason I was very disappointed when I found out the HTC Shift would not have a full version of WM6 on it...because I would use that for ever thing that I use a PC...web browsing (Opera mobile works great) Typing text documents and taking notes in class, using excal for schedules and time sheets, power point for reviewing school slides, GPS navigation...ect I can do it all on wm6 and its faster then a PC. I could just boot up vista if I ever needed to print something out or get something on the web that needed more powerful java usage, or edit complex text/excel documents (rare)....oh well, the tilt will make me happy for now(not that I would have gotten rid of it any way...I love it!.)
http://www.teksoftco.com/index.php?section=bluemouse
There are some "stowaway bluetooth mouse/keyboard" drivers around too (they are part of the ROM I use), but they don't seem as reliable.
Ahh, I knew I should have added that I tried these programs already.
It does not seam to work with either my mac keyboard or my PC rocketfish bluetooth keyboard. I found them while googling for a solution and was very happy...only to be disappointed.
This is was actually drove me to buy a Celio RedFly, which comes in the mail on tuesday But I still want to be able to use my mac keyboard! Now I can just used a USB mouse and the redfly as a larger screen.
I did this because in all practicality my WinMo can do every I need...may not be as enjoyable of a experience as say a MID or UMPC, but I'm looking for function here.
I were recently looking for a remote to control a Laptop running XP for things such as presentations etc that had a touchpad for cursor control. There is a unit made by manhattan but its about £120 and doesnt have a keypad. There are wireless keyboards with a touchpad on but theyre massive. Then it hit me. The HTC Touch Pro has bluetooth functionality AND an effective touchpad with the screen AND a full qwerty keyboard. So has anyone come across any software that runs on windows mobile 6 that enables you to control a desktop/laptop via a bluetooth connection between the two? And if not why has nobody come up with this based on the fact that these smart phones are usually purchased by business people who do presentations etc on a daily basis?
You might wanna check out Gremote. I haven't used itmyself, but the description looks like what you need. It says it works with bluetooth or wifi.
Let us know if it works for you!
Hey all any one able to help with the creation of a mouse pointer for the X1 that uses the optical pad for control?
IIRC there was one I tried many months ago, but it was really bad. I think that the optical thing only returns one dimension at a time, so don't go thinking you can use it as a track-pad. At least, it did not work on the mouse pointer I had. It worked kinda like the one in Opera 10.
I'm sure you can dig it out with a quick search. It was not specific to X1 -- which maybe why it only ran in 4 directions (but, again, I am 99% sure that is a limitation on the hardware or device driver).
Virtual Mouse, I thought that was the name.
Ya I tried the virtual mouse its shareware and only was u/d/l/r and you are so right it wasnt that good.
There's no other one for the X1 like in the Samsung Omnia.
Not having much luck at locating a bluetooth keyboard and mouse (compact in size) that is proven to work with the HD2. Any help? Thanks.
I know this keyboard works ...
http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/mini-bluetooth-keyboard-for-smartphones/
I use a full size apple bluetooth keyboard personally ...
Have not seen one , but I don't think a mouse will work at all, don't think the phone has mouse cursor support ...
MyMobiler
I use MyMobiler when I am at my computer. It allows me to use my computer to type and my mouse to click on things.
http://www.mymobiler.com/
jkitsmiller said:
I use MyMobiler when I am at my computer. It allows me to use my computer to type and my mouse to click on things.
http://www.mymobiler.com/
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MyMobiler is so cool. While it doesn't replace a blue tooth keyboard and mouse, to be able to control your phone from the PC is mostly there. And it's free
Thanks for the link.
Well, there was one bluetooth mouse (regular small mouse, with scroll wheel and all) that, besides working on a regular PC with standard BT HID profile, came with a software driver for Windows Mobile, and one could use it with any WM device, so I assume it would work with the HD2.
It is the Stowaway BT Mouse, from Think Outside, the same company that made various full-size fold-up BT keyboards (which also work on any WM device).
Unfortunately, Stowaway was bought up by IGo (who mainly makes universal AC adaptors for laptops), and shortly thereafter, they shelved the whole product line. (Pretty dumb to buy up a company, then shelve its products, especially not being a competitor.) (And with the explosion in smartphones, I think that could be a growing niche, especially the keyboards. (Of course, now they would need to expand support for Iphone, Android, Blackberry, etc., as well as WM.)
So, that mouse and its software has been discontinued. However, I would bet that you could still find them on Ebay, Craigslist, etc. Look for Stowaway Bluetooth Mouse.
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/tablet-keyboard-ipad?crid=1240
I know it says it's for ipad, I am wondering if it would work with the N7? Did anyone get a chance to try one of these?
It looks really good, not too small, also the case can be used as a sort of dock.
LE: for clarification, I know there is an android version too, but at the store I could pick this up, they only have the ipad version. I cannot order online at the moment. At least from the pictures the two versions seem very similar, and I was assuming they use the same BT connectivity technology.
My guess would be that its usable since its Bluetooth but the Android version would be more useful. Kind of like having a Mac vs PC keyboard on your computer. Some keys have odd symbols like the Apple command key (sometimes called the cloverleaf key) working like a control key or perhaps the Windows key. Placement of some keys will be different also. As someone who's used nothing but PC keyboards on Macs for decades I'm used to the differences but you might not like them.
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You are right. I saw the key layout. Will wait with the keyboard... it's not that urgent anyway.
Wife has one, it works fine, but missing any Android-specific keys that might be on keyboards, I honestly don't know what they'd be though.. I assume things like home, back, search, media play/stop etc... None of that works. The "Opt" key launches stuff, but none of it particularly useful (Calculator etc).
But for typing etc, it works fine.
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/tablet-keyboard-android-win8-rt?crid=1242
There's an android / windows version too...