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Oct 07, 2005

A1000 as a mouse without buttons

This morning I spotted the Mobile Mouse from Psiloc through My-Symbian's RSS-feed. Mobile Mouse promises to turn your mobile phone/PDA/thing into a Bluetooth mouse. My-Symbian listed it under UIQ. But, as usual they mean for the SonyEricsson PXXX-range. (I wonder how this sounds through Talkr :-). Furthermore, the product info on Psilogic's site talked about XP Service Pack 2 and I have Windows 2000.

Victory the the brave - I thought. Without hesitation I downloaded and installed the demo. Nowadays my Bluetooth dongle (see earlier postings) works perfectly for synchronizations and file transfers. So, the installation worked without problems. Of course Mobile Mouse assumes the PXXX-buttons, which to some degree limits the use on the A1000. Even so, it works in default setup but you can't change anything because the menu is accessed throught the "*"-key. I was able to move the cursor around and left-click the mouse. Another drawback is that I need to manually have my laptop discover the Mobile Mouse each time I start it on the A1000. Might be because I don't understand my Bluetooth driver. Don't know if the same problem applies under XP SP2.

What I cannot understand is why developers, like Psiloc, limit the use to the Sony Ericsson range. I see no reason why it could not be redesigned to work with the A1000. After all, it has game buttons.

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Does work, and can access settings menu with Game Button 1, can't find the right mouse button though for the A1000

Posted by: Matt | Oct 24, 2005 12:09:07 AM

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