{"id":3937,"date":"2017-01-30T21:47:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2017-03-05T23:21:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T15:21:57","slug":"android-bluetooth-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2017\/01\/android-bluetooth-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Android and Bluetooth keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enough of death\/closing from 2016. \u00a0Let us start the new year with something new! \u00a0A Bluetooth keyboard from BOW. \u00a0The\u00a0BOW Hangshi HB022 is a bifold keyboard that supports Android, IOS, and Windows. \u00a0It comes with a hard carry case that works as a stand for your phone\/tablet. \u00a0A nice touch is the movement of opening the keyboard will turn on the Bluetooth.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.alicdn.com\/imgextra\/i2\/1717260784\/TB2G9JheFXXXXbXXpXXXXXXXXXX_!!1717260784.jpg\" alt=\"BOW HB022 Bluetooth keyboard\" width=\"790\" height=\"516\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">BOW HB022 Bluetooth keyboard, picture from EzBuy<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Key placements.<\/h3>\n<p>Most of the keys are easily accessible just like a normal keyboard. \u00a0Unfortunately, the B key is on the wrong side. \u00a0I am used to typing the B key with my right hand, whereas on the B key is on the left half of the keyboard. \u00a0A tad far for touch typing to reach. \u00a0The ? key is located below the shift button, that requires some eyeball and fancy finger work to press that.<\/p>\n<h3>Key controls.<\/h3>\n<p>The keys work well with my Android phone, OnePlus One with CM13 by Sultanxda. \u00a0The launcher I used is the Action Launcher. \u00a0Initially, the launcher hated the keyboard, but a quick update by the developer, Chris Lacy, fixed the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The Home and Back key worked well. \u00a0For some strange reason, I could never get the Menu or overflow key to work.<\/p>\n<p>There are mapped keys for Select all, Copy, Cut, Paste and music playback. \u00a0Listed below are some keys to launch the apps. \u00a0 Note if you set an app as the default, it is not remembered.<\/p>\n<div>Win E &#8211; Email app<\/div>\n<div>Win P &#8211; music Player<\/div>\n<div>Win S &#8211; SMS app<\/div>\n<div>Win L &#8211; caLendar app<\/div>\n<div>Win N \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0Pull down notification window<\/div>\n<div>Win C &#8211; Contacts app<\/div>\n<div>Win B &#8211; \u00a0Browser app<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Chrome browser<\/div>\n<div>Ctrl P &#8211; Print<\/div>\n<div>Ctrl R &#8211; reload<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Apps that do not work.<\/h3>\n<p>Textra, SMS app strangely does not work. \u00a0There was no response from the app at all.<br \/>\nStock SMS<br \/>\nSignal<br \/>\nTelegram<br \/>\nAllo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Where to buy.<\/h3>\n<p>Taobao is the best place. \u00a0Unfortunately, any email to the manufacturer bounces. http:\/\/www.bow.cn<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ezbuy.sg\/Product\/Detail?url=https%3a%2f%2fdetail.tmall.com%2fitem.htm%3fid%3d26383248090&amp;src=10006\">EzBuy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough of death\/closing from 2016. \u00a0Let us start the new year with something new! \u00a0A Bluetooth keyboard from BOW. \u00a0The\u00a0BOW Hangshi HB022 is a bifold keyboard that supports Android, IOS, and Windows. \u00a0It comes with a hard carry case that&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[241,416,417],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-bluetooth","tag-keyboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3953,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions\/3953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}