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As I mentioned before the 770 is extremely versatile, what with it running an opensource operating system. Support for bluetooth keyboards has been hacked in, so the 770 can be used as a word processor with AbiWord, to ssh into remote hosts with OpenSSH, and then just generally for writing emails etc.

There are two types of bluetooth keyboards doing the rounds, HID and non-HID. HID is a bluetooth profile which the Nokia supports so it’s very easy to connect the keyboard to the 770 and work away, no messing around. You can get the bluetooth plugin from here. The other type of bluetooth keybaord, the non-hid ones are a bit more awkward. It involves creating a serial connection to the keyboard and using kbdd as a userspace keyboard driver. There is however a decent guide and some scripts written to help with this.

This second type of keyboard is the one I have, a Freedom Keyboard. If you can afford it I would advise going for the HID profile ones, these are much easier to use and somewhat less buggy.

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