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#31
Originally Posted by battez View Post
I have a 770 - should this work with that? I have the bluetooth plugin installed ok.

thanks, love this site!
I bought this keyboard today and I'm writing this post using it with my 770. It works fine, except that letters Y and Z seem to be mixed up. "Stowaway Italian" is the only layout in bluetooth plugin which is QWERTY. All the others seem to be QWERTZ. And the French and Spanish layouts produce Z from both Y and Z keys

EDIT: The keys are now working correctly now after pairing the keyboard and 770 again.

Last edited by Tragos; 2007-11-01 at 22:57.
 
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#32
I didn't have to install a bluetooth plugin or any additional software, to pair with the Nokia 770

1) Turn on the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard
2) Go to the "Tools" menu in the Nokia Application menu, go to "Control Panel"
3) Select the "Bluetooth" control panel under the Connectivity section
4) Select the "Devices" button
5) Select the "New" botton then turn on your keyboard (may have to turn it off first then re-power it on), the green light will be flashing.
6) Let the Nokia find the keyboard, it will shortly show the MAC address of the keyboard (or even the name if it has had a name set)
7) Select the MAC address or name of your keyboard and hit "OK"
8) A window will come up with a Passcode displayed, make sure the "set as trusted device" option is checked. Hit "OK"
9) Then push the number buttons corresponding to the Passcode followed by the <Return> button on the keyboard.
10) Accept the connection to the bluetooth keyboard

You now have a working keyboard, all the arrow keys and the ESC, CTRL keys work. The function keys/special keys across the top row map to the following:

The Bluetooth keyboard worked simultaneously with my RAZR providing GPRS internet access over a Bluetooth connection. Cool. Wonder if a GPS receiver will work at the same time. Not sure how many simultaneous Bluetooth the 770 can sustain.

No problems at all with the Bluetooth keyboard working simultaneously with a WiFi connection.

ESC = Back/Return button (also Back in the Web Browser)
F1 = nothing
F2 = nothing
F3 = Applications Launcher/Menu
F4 = Menu
F5 = nothing
F6 = Full Screen/Windowed toggle
F7 = Zoom +
F8 = Zoom -
F9 = Home Key (not working well in some applications like Opera, but you can pull it up in Notes and Terminal and use it to switch applications or go to the Home screen)
F10 = nothing
F11 = nothing
F12 = Power Button
EJECT = Power Button (same as F12)
Right side Option key is mapped to the Return Key, handy when you're navigating using the arrow keys.

In some applications (Notes, Terminal):
The Right side Command key brings up the Edit menu items (cut, copy, paste, etc.)

In Terminal, the ` key works, but the ~ (shift+`) results in a * character instead of the ~ Tilde. Hit F10 or F11 for the ~ Tilde key.

The keyboard works and types great. The keyboard doesn't fold but it feels much better to type on than most of the folding keyboards that I've tried. It really isn't all that big and should pack away in my backpack quite easily, just going to have to find some sort of sleeve that it'll fit in for some protection. My eyes aren't that good and I have to sit quite close to the N770 to read the text on the screen, but if I sit at a coffee table, prop up the Nokia close to my face and type on the keyboard on my lap it seems to work fine. Probably I can figure out how to do this in bed with a couple of pillows. I can really see using this with the N770 when I'm on the road going fairly light (no laptop) but wanting the ability to type long e-mails and text. Can't wait to try it out on my next road trip.

Dave

Last edited by DaveC; 2007-11-02 at 08:28.
 
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#33
PageUp, PageDown, Pos1, End - these actions have to be mapped to some keys. I'll try this (for the german layout) as soon as I have some time. Help very much appreciated...
 
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#34
Anyone else's Caps-Lock key LED never shining? Besides, the power LED only lights up for a few seconds, then it goes off again. The manual suggests that it stays on.

I'm also missing page up/down, pos1/end and delete keys; I'm used to laptop keyboards where the Fn key is used to access those functions as well as a numpad-layout. Doesn't seem to work like that with Apple keyboard / N800 combo.
 
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#35
Originally Posted by mich View Post
Anyone else's Caps-Lock key LED never shining?
Update: Caps-Lock LED works when paired with a Windows XP laptop, so it's not a hardware problem.
 
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#36
Originally Posted by mich View Post
Anyone else's Caps-Lock key LED never shining? Besides, the power LED only lights up for a few seconds, then it goes off again. The manual suggests that it stays on.
I noticed this as well with my keyboard. I thought that it was perhaps for energy conservation or that the whole was for something else than a led (I did not see any light from it since I got it).

Robert B.
 
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#37
PageUp/Down worked for me using the Apple/Cmd-Buttons left and right of the spacebar - very neat (but only when using the default configuration of the hardware keyboard (Nokia SU-8W)...)

I must say that this keyboard is an EXCELLENT addition to the N800.

Last edited by twaelti; 2007-11-06 at 20:55.
 
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#38
Originally Posted by DaveC View Post
I didn't have to install a bluetooth plugin or any additional software, to pair with the Nokia 770
Yes, bluetooth keyboards are supported by OS2007 (also HE). The bluetooth plugin is needed with OS2006.


BTW, has anyone found a way to map a key to open the main menu in OS2006? F3 does this in OS2007.
 
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#39
Originally Posted by twaelti View Post

I must say that this keyboard is an EXCELLENT addition to the N800.
- just got back from the Apple store in Tampa (after braving the insane Floridian drivers doing 100mph+ across the Howard Frankland bridge)...

- the Apple wireless keyboard opens up a whole new dimension of use for the N800... after pairing and setup to 105US via the control panel, i find i can do nearly everything through the keyboard (zooming Web views is especially handy!)...

- and for everything else, there's xmodmap!

:-)

p.s. this keyboard is also an industrial work of art, IMHO... who knew that chiclet-keyboards would come so far in almost 30 years?
 
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#40
Originally Posted by linux_author View Post
- just got back from the Apple store in Tampa (after braving the insane Floridian drivers doing 100mph+ across the Howard Frankland bridge)...

- the Apple wireless keyboard opens up a whole new dimension of use for the N800... after pairing and setup to 105US via the control panel, i find i can do nearly everything through the keyboard (zooming Web views is especially handy!)...

- and for everything else, there's xmodmap!

:-)

p.s. this keyboard is also an industrial work of art, IMHO... who knew that chiclet-keyboards would come so far in almost 30 years?
Would you mind posting all the remaps you've done?
 
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