Use a Bluetooth keyboard with iPhone and iPod Touch

Use a Bluetooth keyboard with iPhone and iPod Touch – BTstack Keyboard

By Mohammad Farzan Hussain

There are many smartphones and mobile phones available in the market that have a on-screen keyboard but also have a support for Bluetooth keyboard, such as smartphones and mobiles manufactured by Windows, Nokia and BlackBerry. The Bluetooth on the iPhone and iPod Touch is not too much reliable, so it can't do much other than peer-to-peer connections, wireless controlling, wireless audio streaming. That means you can't share files and contacts easily.

Now, the developer Matthias Ringwald has made a driver that enables the Bluetooth keyboard to work with jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch, this driver makes a Bluetooth on iPod Touch and iPhone useful. Basically, the developer has made an app that needs to be installed on your jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch which enables the device to connect and work with Bluetooth keyboard using the built-in Bluetooth of your iPhone or iPod Touch.

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Features in BTstack Keyboard version 1.0

Below are some of the new features in BTstack Keyboard version 1.0-23075 release

Inhibited auto-lock while typing
You can now lock your device with Alt-ESC combination, and unlock the same with any key
Fixed keyboard layout for de_CH: . and :
Fixed keyboard layout for de_DE: ?,-, and _
Added Japanese keyboard layout by ashikase
Fixed input to Spotlight search field

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Below are the features that will be added in future release

Apple Keyboard: quick auto-connect
Selection with SHIFT + Cursor
Copy/Cut/Paste
Cursor keys in MobileTerminal
CAPS-LOCK key

The app that enables a support for Bluetooth keyboard is named as BTstack Keyboard. This app is available to buy from the Cydia Store for just $5.

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