A Bluetooth keyboard has batteries to draw power from. A USB keyboard draws from its host. The nexus may not be supplying enough. Let us know what you decide to go with.

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I'm using the iHome bluetooth keyboard. It has a lion recharchable battery that will last for at least a couple of weeks on a full charge being used eight hours a day. I know this because that's how I use it and have yet to run out of battery. It will recharge from any standard usb port (doesn't need 2 amps like the N7) It's light, portable and the keys feel like keys though the spacing is a little tight. Most of the function keys work out of the box and you can install External Keyboard Helper Pro to custom map keys etc.

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I don't know what country you are in but you can buy the "official" charger at Fry's brick and mortar stores. I'm sure google and amazon have them also. As already stated you really want a charger with a 2 amp output. I carry a one amp charger with me for coffee houses which pretty much just keeps the device from draining the battery while I'm using it.

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There's a great app for doing this Tablet Talk. I already checked and unfortunately for you it's not available for I devices.

Works great for my N7 connected to my Atrix 2 over by for exactly the purposes you are looking for.

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Sweet!
I didn't know they finally updated it and put it back on the market. I've been playing around with 1.3.

Highly doubtful you'll see it as an amazon free app. I think it's been at least a year since they put a decent app (not game) for free on the daily deal...

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According to this bluetooth is fixed:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/android-4-2-1-update-brings-back-december-fixes-bluetooth-50009859/

Also if you were running a custom rom/and or kernel your device may have got the ota pushed to it but unless you ended up with 4.2.1 in the about section of your tablet you don't have it installed. I had thought mine installed and ran into this issue.

I also have noticed a bit of an uptick in stock performance according to Quadrant Standard and Antutu but screen flicker still comes and goes on my device app dependent which is strange because I don't use auto-brightness.

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I bought my case and otg cable at the same time. Thencame the bluetooth keyboard as I already had a bt mouse.

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I use Evernote been using it forever never bothered to look for anything else as it satisfies my needs.

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Please pardon my rudeness for not introducing myself to the forum before posting!

I've been tweaking and geeking on my N7 since I got it and am finally at a stable and smooth setup on 4.2!

Hope to be helpful here as well as learn some stuff too!



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