Nokia N8 – USB-OTG Mouse and Keyboard

Today I just came to know that USB On-The-Go in Nokia N8 is really a plug and play. Nokia officially has advertised this smart phone with prominently saying about the USB-OTG feature in it but they never showed it’s full capabilities. They just showed that how can you attach external USB Flash/Pen Drives to your Nokia N8. Yes it works really great with the external flash drives. But now it’s gonna be doing more than that.

I just thought to connect my USB mouse or USB keyboard to it in the same way to check what happens. And I was surprised that my Nokia N8 just picked the USB Mouse in seconds. Then I tried the same with the USB Keyboard it gave the same results again. The Nokia N8 picked them both very efficiently. I am just posting the videos below to show you how it worked. Then I searched the Google and found that not much but some of the people have already tested it.

Any ways. I found that the Keyboard was great in speed with no-delay. But the mouse was a bit lagging. I am also posting some of the short-keys(which I was able to find) to operate the Nokia N8 via your USB Keyboard.

You don’t need any thing else but the USB Keyboard and a USB Mouse. Just connect your USB On-The-Go adapter cable to your Nokia N8 and USB Keyboard/Mouse to the adapter cable. That’s all it should be working..

USB Mouse on Nokia N8

USB Keyboard on Nokia N8

Universal Short Keys

1. [F1] – Internet Browser
2. [F2] – Messaging
3. [Ctrl+Left Arrow] – Left navigation key
4. [Ctrl+Right Arrow] – Right navigation key
5. [Ctrl+Down Arrow] – Exit current application
6. [Alt+Tab] – Toggle from Home Screen to Menu Screen (vice-versa)
7. [Alt+Tab (long hold)] – Shows up the applications currently running in background.
8. [Arrow keys] – Universal usage of arrow keys to move left-up-right-down.
9. [Enter(Return) key] – to select and open selected item/app

Home Screen keys

1. [Arrow keys] – to move from one widget to another
2. [Ctrl+Up Arrow] –  Last Dialed Numbers (Log Application)
3. [Number Keys] – to start dialer with the keys pressed.

Dialer Application

1. [Number Keys] – to enter number to call
2. [Enter(Return) key] – to dial the entered number
3. [Ctrl+Up Arrow] – to hold/unhold the active call
4. [Ctrl+Down Arrow] – to disconnect the call and exit the dialer application.