Little help with a tablet keyboard

[thegayhare]

Hi hi all

Well I recently bought a keyboard for my 7inch tablet.   Since my tablet has a micro usb slot I purchased one to fit.   Now the keyboard is here and doesn't seem to work as on closer inspection the blackberry playbook micro usb is un powered.  If I have the reasoning correctly that means I can use it to charge the tablet itself but nothing else can draw power from the tablet.

Is there anything I can do.  Since paying return shipping will cost as much as the keyboard itself did

[Tapewolf]

Probably the best answer is keep it in case you can use it on some other tablet later.    The Playbook seems to be a dead end, sadly - RIM don't appear to be updating it.

In theory it is possible to enable host mode, but in practice I don't think anyone has unless they hacked the device prior to installing the 2.1 update.

[thegayhare]

Bugger bugger bugger

Oh well ill try and sell it in ebay and get a blue tooth keyboard