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I have been holding off on buying a bluetooth keyboard for use with my 770, largely due to all the reports I have seen on this site of crashing with the unofficial bluetooth plugin. From what I have been able to gather, it sounds like the plugin makers have been unable to properly work around these problems due to some problems with the way the maemo platform handles input selection (please correct me if I am wrong).

A lot of people have responded to my criticism of the lack of certain features like Bluetooth HID support, crappy email client, lack of flash support, etc. with comments to the effect of "Well, Nokia can't do everything and they have made this great open source platform, so if you don't like the way they have done something, you can do it yourself." In at least this case, some issues with the platform itself seem to be blocking 3rd party development of a widely requested feature that imo should be part of the base operating system. If Nokia is going to rely on 3rd parties to make the "killer apps" that will ultimately make/break the platform, then I think they need to be more responsive to the needs of those 3rd parties. The maemo community site has been a great step towards that and is above and beyond the efforts of almost any other company I can think of in a similar situation. Still, I can't help but feel that for the maemo platform to really be a success, there needs to be more public give and take between Nokia and the developer community.