On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Bob Jonkman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 10-10-13 12:42 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
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If you are looking for a phone with a physical keyboard, then don't get<br>
the Motorola Milestone (a.k.a. Droid in CDMA networks), which I own.<br>
The reason is that the keyboard is almost unusable. It works fine as a<br>
touch phone, and is feature rich otherwise.<br>
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Could you use a Bluetooth keyboard with this phone?<br></blockquote><div><br>I have not tried any bluetooth devices with that phone, simply because I have<br>no peripherals that are bluetooth. But I see <br></div></div><br clear="all">
According to this, it seems a rooted phone can do it, and there is a request <br>for Google to include it (and you can vote on it by "starring" it)<br><br><a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1147">http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1147</a><br>
<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajmhUcmbinc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajmhUcmbinc</a><br><br>I see a few apps in the market about bluetooth keyboard, but have not<br>tried any of them.<br><a href="http://www.androlib.com/r.aspx?r=bluetooth+keyboard&t=free">http://www.androlib.com/r.aspx?r=bluetooth+keyboard&t=free</a><br>
<br>Apart from that, Motorola has a very nice feature on this phone. It is called<br>a phone portal. What it does is that you enable WiFi on your phone, and <br>it acts as a server. You connect to it from a browser, and then it allows you<br>
direct access to several things (e.g. browsing your contacts, sending<br>SMS messages, ...etc.)<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq75pbhguOI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq75pbhguOI</a><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vyR7VqTLFQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vyR7VqTLFQ</a><br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BjmIgxbs5Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BjmIgxbs5Q</a><br><br>There is also an app in the Market called Wifi Keyboard that does what you <br>want via Bluetooth but over Wifi.<br>
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