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Brydge Mini Bluetooth Keyboard Review
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May 30, 2025
It seems so logical to have a tiny keyboard that turns your iPad Mini into a mini-laptop, and there are a number of companies offering just such a device. But how do they compare? Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ reviews the Brydge Keyboard for the iPad Mini, and finds that, to his surprise, he doesn't love it...
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I want to look at the bridge keyboard
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this is actually the bridge mini cuz
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it's for an iPad Mini and let me show
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you what's going on here
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it's keyboard and I'll zoom in a little
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bit so you can see exactly how the keys
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layout and everything but it's a
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Bluetooth keyboard designed for iPad
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minis and works with all of them because
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it has this sort of funky hinge where
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you just sort of here's my iPad you just
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slip it into the hinges you see them
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there and here's a close-up shot and the
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idea is you just put the mini in the
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hinges and then you have this nice 180
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degrees where you can get it to be at
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different angles it actually has an
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automatic wake up feature which is kind
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of nice but like all of these Bluetooth
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keyboards that turn your tablet into
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like a laptop for lack of a better word
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the keys actually are really important
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but there's the whole sort of experience
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of it and if you'll recall I recently
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looked at the Zagg slim book here's
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actually a link if you want to click
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over and look at that review but I gotta
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say I like the Zagg design because it
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actually is a shell that covers the iPad
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and then there's the keyboard and so the
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whole thing closes on is protective when
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I close this you can see this is just my
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iPad there's no protection for it and
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it's not hugely stylish but it also
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isn't adding much weight there's a
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little switch on the front turn it on
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and of course now when I open up my
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computer since I previously bluetooth
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paired it all I have to do is unlock my
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iPad and something I can remember the
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password you didn't see that did you no
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good so I can then go anywhere and just
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type so it's actually a really nice
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feeling keyboard but this sort of this
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funky thing that takes a while to get
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used to which is that the return keys
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really
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so again let me zoom in and show you
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what I mean by that it's just the same
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size as every other key now I realize
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that when you're doing something that's
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the dimensions of the mini you're
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constrained to that size but even given
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that this again just like the zag
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there's just sort of the size of the
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keys takes a little getting used to so
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not a huge big deal one thing this has
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it's really cool as it has a backlit
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keyboard so if you're in a situation
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where you don't have much light this is
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a huge win to be able to have the keys
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light up so you can see what's going on
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once it's fully charged through micro
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USB cable included runs about three
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months depending on your usage that's
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pretty good and this is Space Gray this
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color it also comes in silver and gold
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so you can match the metal color of your
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iPad certainly on the north more recent
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models of the iPad Mini and finally it's
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129 bucks from bridge keyboards comm
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where you can learn more about it 129
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dollars this is the bridge mini for iPad
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minis and I gotta say like I said not a
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huge fan of it the keyboard is really
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nice everything I really like about it
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it just sort of makes me anxious having
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this hinge right on the glass surface of
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the iPad so you know by comparison the
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way that the zag Mini works or the zag
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slim book for the iPad Mini get that
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name right is it's a shell that pops
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over the iPad and so then the iPad
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itself doesn't have any pressure or any
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unusual thing going on which to me means
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that it's a little safer it's a little
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less likely to get damaged but I'll
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leave it up to you because I'm sure some
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people are perfectly fine having this
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sort of a design and it is pretty nice
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it's pretty thin and it does give you
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three months of on-the-go keyboard which
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is a whole lot easier to type on than
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the keyboard on the screen make your own
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decision so this is Dave Taylor and
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I'll catch you in my next video
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