I've decided to get this keyboard:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Bluetooth-Keyboa...QQcmdZViewItem

On order. Will write about it when I get it.

I still wish the Zippy 610 was BT. Damned nice KB, that...

Oy, check out this mini BT mouse! Anyone tried a mouse with the 770 yet?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-Bluetooth-W...QQcmdZViewItem

OK, that's less than half the price I've seen anywhere else for a BT keyboard. I'm half persuaded already.

How big is it? Have you tried one out and found it acceptable?

Details, man! Enough so I can order before all 20 are gone.

Tch! You've not read the thread!

Seems to be the BT version of this:

http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/review/travelboard_review

I've not fondled it. I'd rather have that Zippy 610, but no BT version of it. . .

Wait for my review. That ebay seller won't run out of them.

- live via free 770 @ NYPL.

I see the Think Outside Stowaway for 90 dollars on amazon. It has a full HID profile so it will work. I would stay away from cheap knockoff stuff with proprietary drivers just for convenience and future uses.
I tested the Frogpad BT keyboard last year. I have one now (left handed), it is nice and small but you have to learn to use it. Being one handed, it takes some time to be proficient but I can do about ~40wpm. The only issue I have is re-pairing, they make you carry around a paperclip to get to the pairing button. What a huge PITA.
I might pick up a Stowaway just to see if it is easier to use, at least in pairing with BT.

I use the ssh a lot for linux server admin, so a keyboard is great.

While this isn't a fold-up keyboard, it has a small footprint: The Logitech DiNovo - - I connected to a co-workers' flawlessly.

And humourously, Windows XP asked him for a 6 digit security PIN - - the 770 did not.

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Look at THIS keyboard!!!

http://ces.engadget.com/2006/01/04/m...ooth-keyboard/

We have GOT to get this working with the 770!!

It worked with the BT KB plug in? Still not small enough for me, but good news that there's another choice.

FWIW, I received the Freedom Mini keyboard from Extensys today, and it took about five minutes to get it working - downloaded and installed the BT keyboard widget from the Maemo site, fired up the keyboard, tapped the BT keyboard icon on the 770, and everything worked.

Haven't completely worked out the mapping - nothing in their manuals applies to the 770 - but all the standard stuff is pretty obvious. Only real annoyance is that "." (dot) is a shifted character - makes entering URLs less easy than it could be. Since the source for the BT keyboard plugin is available, maybe someone will work up an optimum mapping for the 770 (or maybe they already have, and I haven't figured it out).

Really nifty little device - it's smaller than I had imagined (even seeing it in front of a credit card on the freedom site - figured that was hype - it's not). It's not something you would write "War and Peace" on, but it's way easier than the on-screen virtual keyboard for entering bunches of bookmarks or RSS feeds or whatever.

- Dennis Brothers

Thanks for the info Dennis. I just placed an order for the Freedom Mini Keyboard from Exapansys a few minutes ago. Good to hear it works with the 770; now I just have to wait for it to be delivered.

Has anybody noticed that Freedom is making a successor to their original Freedom Bluetooth Keyboard? They fixed one of my main gripes: it now has a dedicated escape key!

http://www.expansys-usa.com/product.asp?code=124252

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be in production yet - only available for pre-order. Does anybody have any idea when it will be available? The website says December 2005, but that's obviously wrong.