hey everybody it's Lon Seidman and those of you who have been following me for a
while know that I'm obsessed with these little mini keyboards and we reviewed
this one from Lenovo a couple of weeks ago that integrates the trackpad into
the physical keyboard which I thought was pretty cool but a lot of you kind of
balked at the $60 price tag for this one so I'm always on the lookout for new
ones and a company reached out to me on this
h20 keyboard that they're selling right now on Amazon for $20 and it's got a
physical keyboard here in the front that is backlit and then it's got a trackpad
here on the back and it's got a little gyroscope inside so it knows what
orientation it is in so you can pretty much hold it any way you want and get
both the keyboard and the trackpad integrated into a very inexpensive
device and we'll be taking a look at this thing in just a second but I do
want to let you know in the interest of full disclosure that one of the Amazon
sellers who sells this thing sent it to the channel free of charge I'll put an
affiliate link to their store in the video description there are a number of
other sellers selling the exact same thing so you shouldn't have any trouble
finding it over at Amazon all the opinions though you're about to hear are
my own nobody is paying for this review and no one has looked at what you're
about to see before I uploaded it so let's get to it now and see what this
little keyboard can and can't do so let's take a closer look now at the
hardware this is all plastic so not the best feeling device but about what you
would expect for it's $20 price tag as I mentioned the keyboard is backlit and
there are a number of settings you can apply to it depending on how bright or
dim you want it to be you can even turn the backlight off it has a rechargeable
battery inside you have to charge it via USB they give you the cable but not the
charger but any USB power source should work I do recommend switching it off
with the physical switch here when you're not using it because I think it
will probably drain the battery if you leave it on when it's not in use but in
my testing so far I charged it up once when I got it used it off and on over
the last couple of days and it's been able to hold the charge pretty decently
now this is not bluetooth it does rely on a dongle
I doubt that there's any encryption going on between the dongle and the
keyboard so if you're in a high traffic area you might want to avoid typing
passwords in with the keyboard just bear that in mind a lot of these cheap
devices often don't encrypt communications back to their wireless
dongles now to use the trackpad you flip it over here and this will illuminate
the border of the trackpad for you you can change the color of the trackpad
just by putting four fingers down on it and holding and that will run through a
bunch of different colors I did find that it pulsates quite a bit I haven't
yet really figured out how to get it to stop pulsating but it will pulsate on
you but it's nice to have at least a target for you to aim for when you're
using it in the dark so they did think of that at least with this and the
keyboard is pretty complete here you've got a full set of keys you got function
keys up here they are clicky keys they feel pretty nice to type on and very
nicely backlit too so I've been just really pleased with how all of this has
been working here for the price point let's take a look though and see how it
works with a Windows computer I did test it on my Mac as well as and on an
Android box a shield TV it worked on both of those but a lot of the gestures
are only going to work on Windows so let's plug it in and see how it works so
let's begin with some exciting stuff namely typing and of course you can type
things out here on the keyboard it's very comfortable to type on nice click
to the keys you've got a caps lock on here also so you can do that
my one gripe with this though is that there is no punctuation keys available
unless you hold down the function key so if I want to put in Lon.TV here I
have to hold down function and O to get a period I would have liked to have had
a period key just because it would be a little easier for a frequently used key
like that they did include full function keys as I mentioned so it might have
been better if they included the punctuation keys and maybe made these
function keys require a function key press to get it to work but that was the
decision they made there so I don't think you're going to be writing a novel
on here but it is a pretty responsive keyboard now you just notice what
happened here I accidentally hit the power key here and that put my Windows
PC to sleep so that's the one thing that I've been doing quite often with this is
accidentally hitting that key when I mean to hit the backspace
there so there might be some muscle memory training that you have to do to
get used to this keyboard let's take a look now and see how the trackpad works
now to use the trackpad you simply flip it over like this and that will give you
access to the touch panel and it will also start tracking your movements
unfortunately the trackpad doesn't work when the keyboard is right-side up it
would have been cool to have been able to use the mouse underneath it but that
is not how this operates so it's got two distinct modes keyboard is on when the
keyboard is right-side up trackpad is on when it is right-side up now what
they've done with this is put in a little gyroscope to basically detect
where its orientation is so you'll see and it might be might be hard to see on
camera right now but there's a light on right here and I can move my mouse
around here as you can see now if I flip it this way the light will move over
here basically the light is going to indicate which way the trackpad thinks
is up so I can operate the mouse in this portrait mode here likewise I can flip
it upside down the light will turn on over here and it will again keep
tracking my finger properly as I flip this thing around into different modes
so it doesn't really matter which direction you put it in I will usually
correct we know which way is up sometimes it doesn't get it right so you
just have to kind of flip it around again and then it will orient itself
back but look for the little light that you'll see here that will indicate which
way the trackpad thinks is up now as I mentioned Windows feels like the better
platform here for this particular keyboard just because it supports a few
more gestures so the windows gestures it supports are the three fingers swipe up
from the bottom here to do an application switch it also supports the
pinch-to-zoom function on Windows as well so there are a couple of gestures
that you might be used to using on your Mac that won't work on this keyboard but
a lot of things do work so if I switch back here to a web page I can scroll up
and down with two fingers that works across platforms if I want to make a
click I can just tap on it here like so I can double click by double tapping of
course and then I can right click by pushing two fingers down again all those
things work across platforms if you want to do a click
and hold it's a double tap most of the time and then you can drag windows
around and do that sort of thing I'm actually quite pleased with the accuracy
of the touchpad it isn't bad for a cheap device here so that was nice to see and
again it's pretty responsive and the pinch-to-zoom here seems to be working
pretty nicely too so for about twenty dollars I think it's a pretty good deal
it seems to be working very well for me I do recommend though getting a USB
extension cable and keeping this dongle in line of sight to the keyboard the
reason is that if you've got it tucked behind your TV or behind a set-top box
somewhere it may not get the best signal back to this and you'll have some
jumpiness with the trackpad you lose a lot of accuracy when the signal is going
in and out so keeping that dongle visible I think will give you a better
experience with it unfortunately they don't have a place to store the dongle
so you'll need to keep track of it as you're playing with it now one feature I
could not figure out with this is the IR feature you'll see that right up there
apparently it has some limited ability to learn the IR signals from your remote
control but the instructions were very vague on this so you hit function and
the power button here that puts it into an IR learning mode which I'm guessing
would allow you to turn your TV on or off with this thing but I couldn't get
it to work and the instructions were not all that helpful so if you have one
of these and manage to figure it out let me know down in the comments below and
maybe we'll do a follow-up on it but all in I think for twenty dollars it's not a
bad deal I will put my buy at your own risk recommendation - this one just
because these cheap little Chinese devices don't always last that long and
you don't often get support after the sale but 20 bucks I think it's probably
a decent risk to take given the fact that the device really is quite
functional and I was very surprised that I found it to be as functional as it is
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