What is going on. Everyone it is Mike. Welcome back to Tech
24/7 TV. Today is May 6th. Wednesday May 6th. I just
received an update for release version of the update for the
breach keyboard. Very simple process you go ahead and
basically install the app plug your keyboard into power and
after maybe 45 seconds the keyboard is updated. I received
a few comments in the video saying you know maybe I was
going a little bit too hard on bridge or maybe I didn't go
investigate deeply enough to go and figure out how it works and
here's my perspective on that.
So you're viewing this video based on whether or not this
keyboard is going to be something you want to go and
consider buying me. Two hundred or two hundred thirty dollars
not an insignificant amount of money. Well if I was Kennish
gloss over some of the problems that I had we'd really be doing
a disservice to you. And I really couldn't recommend this
in good conscience because it wouldn't be something that I
would consider myself. So then the day you have to think about
how I'm going to evaluate this product I mean as a keyboard I
think this is a great product. I've liked all the other bridge
keyboards and this bridge Pro Plus keyboard is no different.
It's got the wonderful as I like to think of them.
IOW function keys that provide me a lot of utility and I
imagine they provide a lot of other people utility as well
that's why they're so popular. It's the keyboard experience is
absolutely different than the magic keyboard which makes
sense that Magic Keyboard is one hundred or one hundred and
charge more expensive than this depending how much I paid you
have you know where you're moving up. Is this a bad typing
screens. Absolutely not. The typing screens I think is
sufficient for a majority of people there might be some
people who don't like this typing screens and they prefer
the scissors which is on the magic keyboard but that doesn't
mean that this experience is bad.
You know the other perspective that you can use this from is
how is the trackpad. Now I have the most recent version of I I
as beta. I also have the bridge software update which came
maybe an hour ago. I went through process of turning off
on registering it or deleting it from my Bluetooth profile
and pulling back on the paring back on and putting it back on.
But I would say again some things work better than they
did previously some things haven't changed and that might
just be an iterative process.
I still have that weird issue that when I plug it into power
the keyboard I'm looking at the battery indicator inside of the
battery which it jumps to 100 and Suzanne plug it it
precipitously drops at like 1 percent per minute down to 75.
That's where the bottom floor where I seen it kind of hover
around which I think is quite strange because I really don't
know if it's charged but who knows maybe it doesn't matter
because it's a three month battery life. And between now
and three months we'll have several updates that perfect
but certainly could be. But let me know if you've actually seen
that with your bridge keyboard because that would be maybe my
keyboard is broken I'm just the the odd man out here.
So if in the day you really have to ask yourself Are you
comfortable with a level of inconsistency that you might
receive from another product. Is it a bad product. No. Is it
consistently work like you again the magic keyboard the
magic trackpad or even the that combo touch. No it doesn't but
if I have no point of reference for those other products you
know you might never know that. So that being said as long as
you can manage your expectations and you'll know
that bridge will continually work over time to deliver
software upgrades and change the functionality.
Right. Hopefully for better that this should be a decent
experience for myself. I would say that I could not recommend
this to someone who I know is a some who's a power user or
someone who's been using the magic keyboard for some period
of time someone who comes from Mac and uses metric trackpad
because it is different. There's no doubt about that.
But that may or may not be OK with you. Only you would be
able to tell me that and you know what you and let me know
in the comments below. But otherwise I think at this point
I'm going to keep the bridge Pro Plus simply as a point of
reference as moving forward as bridge continues to work on
these updates for this keyboard.
And as the Magic Keyboard continues to evolve we might
see different functionality delivered to each of these
products that hopefully change them for the better. Right. I
mean that's all that were to be hoped for as consumers excuse
my kid he's screaming right now. That's all we can hope for
is consumers is that these companies like bridge like
Apple Logitech continually work to make their products better
over time. And it's software it will push the envelope forward
again making for a better experience. Either way I would
love to know what your experiences with the British
Pro Plus in the comments below.
I have some other videos planned in terms of review kind
of comparisons against the bridge propose the Logitech
simple the pro the magic keyboard as well.
In addition to these what does Apple call their other keyboard
them slim. No simple the approach.
In addition to the Apple Keyboard Folio let me know
which one you see down in the comments below. I am Mike this
is tech 24/7 TV. Stay safe out there