bluetooth external keyboard

itreeye wrote:Hello, has anyone here actually bought and tried this driver succesfully with your 9300 and an external full-sized keyboard:

http://www.handango.com/ampp/store/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=308&jid=4FE751C6C7DBE8B4982E12716F9CF998&platformId=4&productType=2&productId=168323&sectionId=0&catalog=20&topSectionId=-1

I've looked around and I can't find *anyone* yet who has a working external keyboard with the 9300. Is it really possible?

I've been digging around on various forums about bluetooth keyboards for the 9500 for the last few days, and this is what I have found so far:

Yellow's btkey should work with the Stowaway Keyboard
Bitween's bluekey should work with the Nokia wireless keyboard.
Either may work with any other bluetooth keyboards, as long as said keyboard supports the bluetooth HID protocol, but there is no garentee.
The keyboard I have (iTech bluetooth virtual keyboard, which has got to be the coolest computer accessory since the USB light) doesn't work with either btkey or bluekey dispite being a bluetooth HID device.
I have yet to hear from either bitween or yellow, but I did only email them today.

Freedom keyboards (and cygnet keyboards probably, they look identical) don't use the HID protocol, but have a driver for the 9500/9300 (although, for me it is pretty unusable due to a tendancy for the cursor to jump to the top or bottom of documents)

ktabic wrote:I've been digging around on various forums about bluetooth keyboards for the 9500 for the last few days, and this is what I have found so far:

Yellow's btkey should work with the Stowaway Keyboard
Bitween's bluekey should work with the Nokia wireless keyboard.
Either may work with any other bluetooth keyboards, as long as said keyboard supports the bluetooth HID protocol, but there is no garentee.
The keyboard I have (iTech bluetooth virtual keyboard, which has got to be the coolest computer accessory since the USB light) doesn't work with either btkey or bluekey dispite being a bluetooth HID device.
I have yet to hear from either bitween or yellow, but I did only email them today.

Freedom keyboards (and cygnet keyboards probably, they look identical) don't use the HID protocol, but have a driver for the 9500/9300 (although, for me it is pretty unusable due to a tendancy for the cursor to jump to the top or bottom of documents)

Thanks so much for the info. Please keep me(us) up to date if you find out more. I will of course too. 😊

ktabic wrote:I've been digging around on various forums about bluetooth keyboards for the 9500 for the last few days, and this is what I have found so far:

Yellow's btkey should work with the Stowaway Keyboard
Bitween's bluekey should work with the Nokia wireless keyboard.
Either may work with any other bluetooth keyboards, as long as said keyboard supports the bluetooth HID protocol, but there is no garentee.
The keyboard I have (iTech bluetooth virtual keyboard, which has got to be the coolest computer accessory since the USB light) doesn't work with either btkey or bluekey dispite being a bluetooth HID device.
I have yet to hear from either bitween or yellow, but I did only email them today.

Freedom keyboards (and cygnet keyboards probably, they look identical) don't use the HID protocol, but have a driver for the 9500/9300 (although, for me it is pretty unusable due to a tendancy for the cursor to jump to the top or bottom of documents)

Hmm.. did you see my research? Nope, just checked, and it seems to have dissapeared from 9500communicator.com Fek!

I spent a day running around the totenham court road in london trying out
BT keyboards with unregistered versions of BTkey and bluetype

To sum up; i tested:
iTech BT
Thinkoutside Stowaway
iMac wireless BT keyboard (a full size qwerty keyboar).
Freedom BT keyboard is not a HID profile keyboard,

The main problem with the iTech was trying to get the two to sync, once that was done it worked fine (needed some calibration though)
in the end i bought the stowaway because it could be used without a flat surface. Though a full keyboard like the mac one is good, its not portable. I've got a mac place near to me so i'm going to try again, but i seem to remember it working ok.

IIRC had better pairing experiences using bluetype, but BTkey has more features.

Download the keyboard driver demos and try again!

gotan wrote:Hmm.. did you see my research? Nope, just checked, and it seems to have dissapeared from 9500communicator.com Fek!

I just found a post by you over at pdaphone.tv by you, on this very subject.

Now I had already found out how to do the pairing between the iTech and the phone (enter number and hit enter on keyboard during pairing and then same number on the nokia).
BTkey failed to connect properly while bluetype connected then came up with psm errors, which seems to match your finding of bluetype being more reliable with pairing.

I'm wondering if both of those bits of software have had new versions since you used tested however, since neither f them work now.

Oh, i forgot about the name change. How is the iTech working out? IIRC it needs some calibration before it can be used properly.

gotan wrote:Oh, i forgot about the name change. How is the iTech working out? IIRC it needs some calibration before it can be used properly.

So far, not good. Which ever program I use has problems connecting to the iTech. However, Yellow have been in contact with me, and are trying to get me set up. So soon hopefully =)