Mine just arrived and Im charging that, If I find anything not already mentioned Ill post it, as for multi uses, it was made with a media center pc in mind, which I'm hoping to get built in the near future, (mythbuntu?) it has a bt dongle which I have yet to try(its my third one) but they are real handy with the n800 and cellfones, I got mine for about 110 on fleabay, new in box, If I recall the IGO & the similar keyboards started at about a 100$ price point...

Not to mention it looks cool as all hell and still fits in the nintendo ds case I use for my n800, and My Igo slim was stolen on the bus along with 2 1gb sd cards 2 pair high qual. ear buds and a usb sd reader.. So I had a good excuse to get the dinovo mini... so wtf I can take a bit of cold sholder from the wifey...


bhang


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it fits in the top of the kybd quite nicely, like it was made to do so, together they look like the smallest laptop ever made, so far Im pleased...

edit after a few hours of playtime:

I set some nice keyboard shortcuts, but Ive noticed the d-pad works fine 60% of the time, then 20 % its slow to respond or will go horizontal but not move the cursor verticaly , 20 % it just wont navigate any menus at all???

seems to nav around a textbox fine, problems Ive been noticed have been mostly related to menu navigation

Im really having problems with the cursor movement(or lack of) its erratic sometime it works and sometimes it doesn't, most of the time its the vertical moves that hang up, 50% of those times a horizontal movement will get it to go up or down...

The other trouble is the hot key setup, Im still trying to figure out whats going on but the one example I recall ATM is the "power menu" I set a hot key to it and and when I used the key combo I get the "select applets,blahblahblah" menu I changed the key combo in case of some type of wacky conflict but I still get the same result...

this is a bit OT but has anybody else noticed that user manuals lately leave alot to be desired, I guess in the interest of dummying them down to get folks to even pick them up, but jeez why not make the first few pages for Tom, Dick, Harry & John Q. Public then go in depth for the "uber geek" so we dont have to hash out the detials on forums like this. That said, I haven't looked around yet for better docs on the mini, it is still the best portable BT keyboard ever made, HANDS DOWN.

anybody else had these troubles(-the sh1tty manuals) and gotten it worked out?
I'd love to have the keyboard shortcut for the power menu, Im pretty sure there are others that don't do what they are labeled to do...

Ill keep messing about and post anything I find/figure out


bhang

There seems to be a trend these days towards less and less manufacturer support and more and more community support. Weak manuals seem to be a casualty of this (though this also has to do with paper -> digital move—perhaps there's a better PDF hiding around somewhere? ).

Ive been looking but, since it debuted at ces '08 and may have even released later than the Nov date, everything I'm finding so far is like "This thing is very cool but I'm not sure...(insert feature here)...will work with X,Y,Z" but I'm still looking. Ive seen some peeps who have had it longer than I maybe a few will stumble thru and post some experiences...

This keyboard (despite the price) is a good fit for the n800 Id love to see Logitech /nokia/ some developer make it 100% compatible with the n8&700, the media keys would be nice and with the developments in mameo mouse support the dpad also works as a mouse type thingy (afaik, once again due to the lack of a decent manual to RTFM)

Please refrain from the "why don't you code it yourself" I know thats hard to do for some of you guys...
Id love to and one day I hope to be able to at least code my way out of a paper bag, but there are some more pressing things on the list, ATM(3 kids, wife, my own business, A+ cert, just to mention a few).

bhang

edit:
this page does a better job of explaining the 2 different modes - http://techgage.com/article/logitech_dinovo_mini/2