Gadgetory

hi I'm Scott Stein and I've been reviewing iPad keyboards and keyboard cases for a bunch of years now I feel like since the iPad first came out and they're useful if you're going to type a lot on your iPad even though you can tap on that screen it's nice to have a Bluetooth keyboard and your options are to go with a detached one or go with one that comes in a case and the Logitech keyboard folio is sort of the perfect example of why keyboard cases are great in keyboard cases or maybe not so hot now it's interesting because Logitech made a really fantastic gadget in fact hey it's right here it's the Logitech ultrathin keyboard and this was reviewed last year it's really slim it docks in really nicely very portable keyboard feels great it's really hard to beat now what a Logitech do with their latest well it got bigger it got bulkier and in adding that case you can see here it's become almost like a mini laptop and the iPad docks into this and you view this flexible plastic you rubber bracket magnets secured at the bottom of the case here it can stay in one position or it can fold flat for for plane travel or it can fold back around into a kind of a book type form and this is one point three eight pounds for just this that's about the weight of the iPad itself so you're doubling the weight and you're really doubling the thickness to get a clean look but it's it's really so bulky that you know you wonder why it needed to be this way for maybe for institutional use for kids because it has a nice sturdy you know feel you feel like you could take a take a beating and still work it might be really useful in that regard but the keyboard is a little bit different and it's interesting because Logitech seems to experiment each time with little tiny tweaks to the keyboard even though they had a great solution here the keyboard has rounded slightly convex keys if your keyboard fetishes too like me that means that I found I didn't really hit the keys quite a solidly as on the ultra-thin keyboard cover also the layout is a little bit different they did some compression here to try to create larger and wider key spacing so you see caps lock and tab keys have been combined with Q and a theoretically that's fine but it creates a sense of a slight shift to the left so I found I was fumbling for keys a little bit more than I normally would those are minor quibbles one of the advantages here is hey there's a nice little loop at the front that accepts a stylus if you're really in a styli or capacitive paintbrushes yes there are those all told this is a lot better built than most keyboard cases that I've seen there are some that feel a little flimsy and there's certainly some out there that don't have that great a set of keyboards to go with them so Logitech is still above average but I think there's a little bit of a disappointment if you really like a sturdy set on your iPad to go typing then take a look at it I'm Scott Stein and that's a look at the Logitech Keyboard folio available in black and several other colors also for the iPad Mini