Support for HID (Human Interface Device) Bluetooth profile and other widely used profiles.
Windows Phone loses usability, market visibility and relevance, and falls behind competing products by not supporting the HID Bluetooth profile (and others) for actions such as hooking up Bluetooth game controllers. Full compatibility between WP8 and the massive Bluetooth ecosystem is important to
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SJSeattle
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It's not a business phone without the ability to use a physical keyboard! It's absurd to go to the trouble of putting Word on the phone, but not provide any useful way to use it.
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!
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I support
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Anonymous commented
I use Microsoft products to WORK. Only a full keyboard supports touch typing. Office but no keyboard??? Please add this capability.
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Rafael
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My hands are not that big, yet my fingers cannot fit in a on screen keyboard. Besides, the keyboard takes half of the screen real state away. I want to no longer be a "second class" smartphone user, I'm tired of seeing my GF perform way more work in her SYMBIAN without the OS saying "no no, we do not want you using that!".
Please, hear your users. We believed in you. Do not let us down. Do not treat us like children in need of correction. "Keyboardless" phones are not OK for everyone! -
chinmaykohad
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Good feature discussed I support this
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Anonymous
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Very disappointing. I could use my phone so much more effectively with a physical keyboard.
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Anonymous
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I was excited to get get WP8 a month ago and now kind of disappointed. No HID and not even VPN.
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Anonymous
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Would be great if I could implement HID into my WP8 app...
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Wevenhuis
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It was already available in windows mobile. Why not the windows phone ecosystem?
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Erik K
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Please add compatibility for bluetooth heart rate monitors, bicycle speed meters,... . Djeez, that should be standard I would think. People use their smartphone also for other stuff than calling. This is standard present in Android and IOS.
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Ben Ashjari, PhD
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Incorporate HID in WP8 for pairing w/ BT keyboards! This is not a feature; it is a necessity! I could not believe that a Bluetooth keyboard could not be paired with a WP8 phone. Either I am naive or WP8 designers don't know what they are doing, or both!
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Anonymous
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Is there a plan when hid will come to wp8? Ms please give us a sign.
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Bob
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I invented my Windows Phone as productivity tool. But wait, I cannot edit my douments or blog posts effectively. SoI would use HID feature to pair a keyboard only, though I am aware it can be used for various devices. Since I can think of PDAs and "Smartphones" (where does that stupid name come from) Windows Mobile has HID, Symbian has it, Blackberry has it, Androis has it, iOS has it, BADA has it, Ubuntu will have it, Windows Phone does not have it by design decision.
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ebenezer kankam
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I need my phone to support other phones Bluetooth
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AL
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I bought a new HR sensor with bluetooth for my Polar RCX5 Watch, and guess what. It supports Android and iPhone but not Windows Phone 8. WHAT??? Can't use it with my Lumia 920 with Endomondo. And Microsoft want to compete with Android and iPhone? If i use this HR sensor. Tell me why I should buy Windows phone 8?
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Peter
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External keyboard is a deal breaker for me. Being able to access and work with documents in skydrive through office is a major plus, except that the required hardware is not supported. Crazy
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Anonymous
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very strange and a reason why I might get rid of windows phone 7...
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Anonymous
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Windows. Cmoooooooooooooon.
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peSHIr commented
My new car will support internet access from the media and navigation console using BT DUN, so I really hope WP8 will start supporting this as well in a next update (or WP9 with new hardware, if that's needed). Would also be of interest to company use, as many camera's, GPS receivers and like equipment will do internet access only through the Dial Up Networking BT profile..
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RDM
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I want, I want a Windows phone - love the Nokia (probably one of the best phones made in 5+ years). But, still carrying my Samsung Galaxy with a slide out keyboard. If you are a business user, most of your communication is email and text. You cannot have the errors that come with touch screen keyboards. I have a Surface, I have Windows 8 on my machine...I am their perfect phone user and I cannot get one!
