Help Bluetooth Keyboard for Droid - Faster Typing

[Ace Ventura]

Hello there. Can anyone recommend a good, portable bluetooth keyboard to use with Droid? Quite often I do need to be able to send considerably long messages via Droid and to me there's nothing as fast as a real keyboard, where you can use all ten fingers.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Ace

 

[Ace Ventura]

Hello there. Can anyone recommend a good, portable bluetooth keyboard to use with Droid? Quite often I do need to be able to send considerably long messages via Droid and to me there's nothing as fast as a real keyboard, where you can use all ten fingers.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Ace

Gotta bounce. I hope someone can recommend a good bluetooth keyboard to use with the phone.

Happy Thanksgiving Day to all!!

 

[Ace Ventura]

Ooopsie. I quoted myself needlessly.

 

[cc16177]

Apple sells an incredibly slim and beautiful keyboard that uses bluetooth for $55 but I'm not sure if it would work on the Droid or not...

 

[Ace Ventura]

Apple sells an incredibly slim and beautiful keyboard that uses bluetooth for $55 but I'm not sure if it would work on the Droid or not...

Thanks. Maybe I'll check it out... though I kinda doubt it'll be compatible.

 

[ccphilly1984]

Thanks. Maybe I'll check it out... though I kinda doubt it'll be compatible.

Maybe best buy or radioshack might have a demo model for you to try out.

 

[Ace Ventura]

Maybe best buy or radioshack might have a demo model for you to try out.

I went to Best Buy and Fry's. Nothing compact there. I'll go to Radio Shack soon.

Thanks.

 

[mcadam]

the apple bluetooth keyboard is roughly a foot long and 6 inches wide. way too big to use with a phone. its thin as hell, but not small.

 

[Fadelight]

For what it is worth, I believe the current bluetooth profile for the Droid only supports AD2P and file transfer of contacts.

If I am correct, you'll have to wait until the phone is rooted before you can use anything like a bluetooth keyboard with it.

 

[ccphilly1984]

For what it is worth, I believe the current bluetooth profile for the Droid only supports AD2P and file transfer of contacts.

If I am correct, you'll have to wait until the phone is rooted before you can use anything like a bluetooth keyboard with it.

Can we find this out for sure? Would motorola tell us if we emailed them?

 

[Ace Ventura]

For what it is worth, I believe the current bluetooth profile for the Droid only supports AD2P and file transfer of contacts.

If I am correct, you'll have to wait until the phone is rooted before you can use anything like a bluetooth keyboard with it.

Or one can buy a bluetooth keyboard and try to pair them up.

I don't know what rooting's for. Gotta do some research.

Thanks.

 

[Ace Ventura]

Can we find this out for sure? Would motorola tell us if we emailed them?

Or calling them too. That's a good idea.

Thanks.

 

[Redflea]

Droid BT support...

BLUETOOTH

 

[Ace Ventura]

Droid BT support...

BLUETOOTH

 

[aaron5610]

My Dell bluetooth keyboard worked great with my Moto q9c but I couldn't get it to work with the Droid. I'm not sure why, when it scans it picks it up, then ask for the code. On the Q it showed the code on the screen and I entered it in from the keyboard and it was synced and ready to go. The Droid will not display the code to enter. I didn't play with it long but I don't think it will work for the Droid yet. Maybe someone will work around this sometime...

 

[Ace Ventura]

My Dell bluetooth keyboard worked great with my Moto q9c but I couldn't get it to work with the Droid. I'm not sure why, when it scans it picks it up, then ask for the code. On the Q it showed the code on the screen and I entered it in from the keyboard and it was synced and ready to go. The Droid will not display the code to enter. I didn't play with it long but I don't think it will work for the Droid yet. Maybe someone will work around this sometime...

There's quite a few onlne. I was hoping someone would recommend one that actually works on this phone and that's not overpriced.

We need a compatible one, of course.

Regards,
Ace

 

[Droidood]

A BT keyboard would be awesome if I could use it to take notes in class. I've been using a netbook but I'd sell that in a minute if there were a full keyboard usable with the droid

 

[Droidood]

Bump! I haven't been able to find much useful info on other forums... just some sort of beta for a driver that I guess hasn't been released yet

 

[barry99705]

I've got a keyboard I used to use with my N800. I'll give it a shot when I get home. It's this one.

 

[cc16177]

Just FYI I tried the Apple bluetooth keyboard and the droid couldn't (or wouldn't) see it even when both devices were in discovery mode.

 

[celios]

I think you need support for the Bluetooth HID profile to use a Bluetooth keyboard and the Droid does not have HID support built in.

 

[barry99705]

I think you need support for the Bluetooth HID profile to use a Bluetooth keyboard and the Droid does not have HID support built in.

Good point, we will need HID support.

 

[Ace Ventura]

I've got a keyboard I used to use with my N800. I'll give it a shot when I get home. It's this one.

Good point, we will need HID support.

Please share if you make it work. That's a nice keyboard, although it has no dedicated numeric row, I think.

Regards,
Ace

 

[mmgtony]

Hi all,

I released my Android / Droid driver for bluetooth keyboards this week.

Sorry for posting i know some admin not like free advertisement but i did not know how to let people know where to find my drivers.

Here if anyone interested: http://www.mymobilegear.com/AndroidKBDriver.php

 

[hagure]

Hi all,

I released my Android / Droid driver for bluetooth keyboards this week.

Sorry for posting i know some admin not like free advertisement but i did not know how to let people know where to find my drivers.

Here if anyone interested: http://www.mymobilegear.com/AndroidKBDriver.php

Wouldn't install under a Droid (w/2.0/Eclaire).