Android, Debian, Linux, remote keyboard to G1, ...

[brad]

I'm loving Android more and more. I keep finding (and filing) bugs, but they're all fixable, and this is only going to keep getting better.

Today I installed Debian on my G1. I followed those instructions up until the unionfs part, where I opted to use bind mounts instead, letting me have a /android/data and /android/system inside my Debian

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Useless?

[ext_110005]

Useless?
I don't know, man. Using a real keyboard on a mobile devices sounds like a winner to me!

[vxjasonxv]

Phone<->Computer integration is one of my most sought after features for phones. When my phone is at my desk, let me use it via my computer. It'll prevent a lot of cluster.... mini-keyboard designs.

My phone is sitting literally inches away from my hands, but why can't I just call up it's applications (bluetooth signaling?) and start typing away on my fully fledged laptop keyboard that I'm so used too?

Of course, my phone isn't the G1, so I'm at the whim of the Apple Overlords, unlike you.

And it just happened now, I just picked up and replied to an SMS taking way too long to type it out.

I can go so much further than this, but I'll stick to the topic and say that phones need to do what you did, natively.

[grumbeld]

I wish I understood what you said.

[mart]

Next step: VNC server!

[mart]

Alternative next step: Jabber-to-SMS-via-phone gateway.

OpenMoko?

[awwaiid]

I'm still sad that the openmoko doesn't get more press. If it got the attention that android has (from a company like Google) then it would surely be doing a bit better by now. Even still... Yes, x11vnc runs fantastically, as does xvncviewer.

And you can drop Android on it without having to jailbreak anything :)

[supersat]

Do you have problems enabling/disabling wifi with Debian unioned in to the root filesystem? Is so, any solutions? I haven't had a chance to poke at it too much, so I was wondering if you have had a chance to run into and fix this problem.