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They do make it tough to check the battery on your Bluetooth devices.
Android was late to the game and they initially made checking of the batteries in your Bluetooth headphones years after Apple. They weren't thinking much of keyboards or mice or anything else. In the Android stock Settings you can click on a Bluetooth device and if it's a headset that takes phone calls it will display the battery level. Why can't it be a headphone that you only use for playing music or why not a keyboard? The devil only knows. In the latest Android source it should support everything else but it's not in the 3.1 software on my Poke 3.
There is an app (which I haven't even tried) called BatOn which should work. Why do we even have to have separate apps for what should be in the OS? Ok, so I wrote my own stupid app instead. It works fine for my stuff (i.e. stuff I wrote firmware for) but not for a commercial headset, a keyboard and a clicker. It's not clear if they are simply missing BAS service (the service that reports battery level) or what.
(The TestBed is at 100% because it's running on a power supply.)
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