Logitech New Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad 2 review: Killer keys

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22/09/2011 05:04
Logitech New Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad 2
review: Killer keys
Logitech New Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad 2
to make their keys fairly narrow-and that leads to
review: Killer keys
cramped typing.
Logitech's new Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad 2 (and
only iPad 2) leverages a clever design to provide
a full-height, full-width set of keys that's no diffe-
rent than the desktop keyboard I'm typing on right
now. Ladies and gentlemen, your QWERTY ship has
come in.
At 1.3 pounds, the Fold-Up effectively doubles the
travel weight of your iPad-the fairly common price
you pay for adding a physical keyboard. The good
news is that the iPad pops out as easily as it pops
in, and the case leaves room for your Smart Cover.
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Unlike most iPad keyboards, Logitech's Fold-Up
spreads out to provide a full-size set of keys.
Typing on an iPad is the kind of thing you can get
used to, and even tolerate, but let's face it: nobody
prefers an onscreen keyboard to a real one.
The Logitech Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad does the
Accessory makers have tried coming to the rescue,
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To look at the Fold-Up is to see little more than a
Keyboard Case by ZAGG. But because they were
black plastic shell, but when you push its release
necessarily no wider than the iPad itself, they had
button and tilt up the iPad, the keyboard folds out
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Logitech New Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad 2 review: Killer keys
is nothing more than sliding the two halves out,
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Unfolding the keyboard turns it on; folding it again
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turns it off. Smart. A single button activates pairing
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mode, and three small LEDs indicate power (though
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only when you first start using it), Caps Lock, and
battery status (only when the keyboard is charging
or the battery is low).
According to Logitech, the Fold-Up's battery is good
for 500 hours of typing. A supplied USB cable handles
the charging, though it stands to reason you could
recharge it with any Micro-USB power source.
As noted earlier, using the Fold-Up is little different
than using, say, an Apple keyboard. The low-rise keys
feel comfortable and responsive; touch typists will
appreciate that everything is "where it belongs."
And the number keys conveniently double as func-
tion keys for things like Search, slideshow, playback
controls, and volume.
My only complaint is with the lack of a dedicated
Delete key (i.e., a key that deletes to the right of the
cursor). To confuse matters (for me, anyway), the
Backspace key is actually labeled Delete. Maybe the
iOS has no "delete" function as we know it? Only
backspace? Oh, well-at least Backspace (er, Delete)
is a full-size key, and located exactly where your
pinky wants to go.
Bottom line: This is my favorite iPad keyboard to
date. It's definitely on the pricey side at $129, but for
people who are keen on using their tablet in place
of a laptop, there's simply no better choice.
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