hmm pity vi_. I have come across this program: remoter http://store.ovi.com/content/93814 which does use a VNC connection... however only to a computer, not to n900. VNC is perhaps too tricky a solution anyway. May have to get a external keyboard, even though theyre much bigger than the e71 keypad.

Here's one that is pretty neat: http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-Bluetooth-W...item2a10064ce9
I watched a review and it looked like it's working nicely.

Try asking on Nokia Forums or sites for Symbian developers, because that would be the proper place to ask if there is symbian software to use your phone as a keyboard.

The second option would be create special programs for both N900 and symbian phone, then on symbian phone you would launch it, it would send via bluetooth keypresses, send to application on N900, application on N900 would generate system event like if key on keyboard was pressed (I have no idea if that is possible system-wide).

Anyone knows if it is possible to generate system-wide keypress events programaticaly on N900? If yes, how? If I knew it, I could write a simple app for N900 and JavaME app for other phones.

Edit: OK, I found a way to simulate keypresses using xdotool I'm writing app now, I should finish later tommorow, it will work with all Java ME enabled phones with Bluetooth support.

just to let you know: i didn't abandon the idea and have somehow working code, it just needs to be packaged and released properly I won't be home for a weekend, but after my return, you can expect more information and some beta-stage software to test (I need to beautify interface a little bit and, more importantly, make xdotools compile properly in autobuilder, because know the resulting package is broken - no binaries in it, just folders, I still need to investigate which "rules" file entry is wrong...)

There is external keyboard support now. Under System, called extkbd. Is that your work? I can set the layout etc. for the Logitech Elite Keyboard - but it doesn't look like any of the applications would care about it yet. They still handle internal and external keyboard the same way. I use the internal setting "Switzerland" (since I have got a Swiss version).

(BTW: Why the heck are guys at maemo.org talking about the N900 and get answers talking about Symbian? And for using external keyboard: DOS-Box and even console users like to have an ESC, a TAB and an ALT-key and the F-keys of course!)

Regards
Peter