Does anyone know if a standard desktop bluetooth keyboard will work on a PDA? I'm thinking of buying the rocketfish bluetooth keyboard for use with a treo 700p.

i have no clue you might want to contact a computer store

try googling it and check the specs

Thanks, but I find sales-teens at computer stores frighteningly ignorant outside their scripts - and too willing to bluff their way with false statements.

Adj, I already did and this info is not explicitely part of the spec., unless you already know enough about bluetooth to infer, which I don't. It is likely mentioned many places on the web (product reviews, discussion boards) but researching such -on- the treo is a pain, and I haven't found it yet.

So if anyone knows from personal experience, or from knowledge of how bluetooth protocols work, I'd appreciate hearing.

Hmmm... also if anyone has expeience with a particular store hiring truly tech savvy sales ppl, I'd like to know! (But if you say comp-usa, circuit city, office max, office depot, best buy, or a department store I'll have to question your standards. )

http://www.mobiletechreview.com/tips/freedom-bluetooth-keyboard.htm

just googled

pda compatable bluetooth keyboard tis came up along w/others

good luck

http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9447/palm-bluetooth-wireless-keyboard-review/

this may be more helpful

http://www.google.com/search?q=standerd+bluetooth+keybourd+for+pda&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Adj, you know I am -not- looking for a portable keyboard, right?

As long as you have the approprait drivers loaded on your PDA a standard bluetooth PC keyboard should work just fine...a lot of PDA drivers for bluetooth are still a little flakey.

Thanks for the info, Lonely. I haven't found any manufacturers of non-portable, (thus cheaper) bluetooth keyboards who explicitly state that their keyboards will work with a Treo. And I read about a lot of people having trouble getting certain portable (aka designed for pdas) keyboards to work satisfactorily. Thus I have the feeling this is not going to work, and I'll be forced to buy one of the more expensive portable keyboards.

Can you recommend any online resources for me to research this further?

Maybe there is an individual out there, without corporate backing, who wrote their own driver out of frustration...

massagertrade-
http://sourceforge.net
http://www.majorgeeks.com/ these are a couple places that might help in your search, also go to the manufactor's support pages for both devices and you maybe able to get the right drivers or atleast a driver that will open your bluetooth connect to any type device not just paired device connections.

ummmm...what IS a blue tooth?? I really have NO CLUE!!!

Barbie
Blutooth is a wireless protocal that allows various devicees such as PCs, keyboards, mouse,ear pieces and cell phones, etc. all to communicate without having to have hard wires connecting them.
lonely

whoops ...bluetooth

Thanks again for the info, Lonely. I never found an ultra-cheap non-portable bluetooth keyboard -guaranteed- to work with the treo, and rather than buy an expensive, delicate portable keyboard known to work, I think I'll buy this $200 keyboard-on-steroids when it becomes available:

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3829

(or google "asus eee pc")

Okay, its a laptop, not a keyboard, but as a kind of ultra-portable networked-keyboard-and-screen it may serve my actual needs better than adding a bluetooth keyboard to my phone will - plus its a lot more bang for the buck.

Is anyone else drooling over the possibilities of this underpowered but super-cheap-and-portable notebook - as a second computer? The Nokia N800 is too small, pepperpad is ugly, OLPC is not available (and ugly), standard UMPCs are way too expensive - this product seems to be just about perfect for web browsing and word processing.