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A foldable keyboard that feels like the real thing? Let's have a look
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Dave Taylor here, and like most people, I have a tablet that I use generally for consuming
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information. It's an ebook reader, it's for news, you know, games a little bit, some Netflix
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very, very handy. But sometimes I want to enter data, and I really don't like entering on that
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little on-screen keyboard, which is why things like this are so cool. This is the pluggable
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full-size Bluetooth folding keyboard in its case. So first off, let's start with the case
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because the case is actually a pretty neat design. So this is made out of a mock leather
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and as you can see, there is this sort of little construction at the end here, because you can
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very easily fold it up, and there's a magnet, so you get just the right distance for your
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tablet or phone for that matter to be perfectly angled for you to be able to work
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Now, obviously the keyboard is what's more interesting, so let's open this up
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And this is a really beautifully engineered piece of hardware. And you can see here the keyboard It has a magnet so it folds and stays open so I can do this and it stay open it not super stiff so it not going to work well if you want to put it on your lap but in a situation like
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this where I just want to put it on the picnic table and do a quick bit of typing or something
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this is actually really perfect and it automatically powers on when you open it and when you close it
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as you would hope it automatically powers off now when I powered it on it also automatically
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connected with my computer so this is already ready to go and what I'm going to do is I'm going
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to swing around and I'll show you the screen while I'm typing and you'll see it's a smooth
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straightforward experience. Now for a keyboard, one of the most important things is actually the
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key layout. And what Plugable has done here is they've tried to design a keyboard that's going
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to work with Windows, with Android, with iOS, and with Mac. Now there's no Mac specific keys
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but they say that for Apple users, you can just set it up into iOS mode
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and it actually has physical modes. So you can actually switch modes with the function key and then the function keys end up taking different purposes So that works out really nicely
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And just a couple of quick dimensions. It is 11.5 inches long by 4.6 inches tall, and it's only a half an inch thick, so it's
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pretty nice. It is, however, a little heavy. It is a pound, a full pound
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So that means that this is something that might actually be as heavy as your tablet
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but if you really need a keyboard, this is a real win. Also works both with Bluetooth as you would
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expect, but it also can work via a USB cable and that's how you charge it too. Now I can't get exact
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numbers from the company on the battery size or anything, but the basic deal is a couple of hours
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of charging via the micro USB connection on the top, a couple of hours charging should give you
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a couple of weeks of usage. So there are little tiny LEDs that give you some status data. There's
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no like, you know, row of seven LEDs that slowly decrements as it runs out of battery. I've never
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seen a keyboard do something like that. So you use it until it's not working and then you charge
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it for half an hour and then you're good to go. So like I said, Mac, Windows, Android, iOS
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and the company also has a compact key design and that one a little less expensive but the keys are definitely laid out differently and there a lot less function keys I would say if you going to go for it probably go for the full one A little more expensive but I think you might be a lot happier So now before I get to
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the price, let me just say that if you can click on that subscribe button, I really appreciate that
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and if this is useful and beneficial, thumbs up. Thank you. Appreciate that. Now, this is the
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pluggable full-size bluetooth folding keyboard and in its compact design it will cost you $34.95
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but this one I'm looking at is the full-size model and it will run you $49.95 at amazon.com
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this is actually a really nice keyboard I'm very impressed with it and I really love the
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engineering they've put a lot of effort into the engineering of this product which is really
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something that shows. So, this is Dave Taylor. I'm getting back to the Great American Novel
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So I'll catch you in my next video
