Andrew Flegg (aka aflegg), writing at bleb.org, describes his experiences installing and first impressions using the Think Outside Stowaway keyboard. Having used a Stowaway in the past, I like the way it feels, looks and works, so this is my preferred choice for an external Bluetooth keyboard. He provides some useful ancillary information (Ctrl+Fn+Fn to get the keyboard into pairing mode) and some useful observations.

With all the things the keyboard brings, there are three provisos to such a purchase, which Andrew notes —

• the “special” keys don’t work, though Andrew suggest .xmodmap in the /home/user/ directory might fix that
• non-Hildonized applications on the 770 (the Linux Citrix client is one such recently discussed in our forums) don’t pick up the Bluetooth or the 770’s virtual keyboard (discussion on maemo developers list on this), and
• the 770 doesn’t register BT keyboarding as activity and dims the screen after 30 seconds of typing the same as if you had not clicked anywhere on screen.