What is going on everyone. It is Mike. Welcome back to Tech
24/7 TV. Today we're getting our first look at the bridge
Pro Plus this is Bridge's first attempt to go and add a track
pad into their all a lluminum keyboards that they make for
the IPA at. We're going to take a look at it and get our
opinion see what it looks like. See how it feels. Let's get
started.
The bridge Pro Plus which recently came out this is just
start shipping sponsorship last month early last month. And
this is bridges attempt to integrate a trackpad into their
know their line of keyboards. I think you've seen this in
January. Yes it's been several months since I first actually
had my hands on this and I'll say you know the same things
are still true for this keyboard as the first
generation notes got great styling all doing them finish.
It works very well.
I would say that from a design standpoint it's really almost
indistinguishable from the previous generation. Few things
to go ahead and take note here. So it's still the same kind of
classic bridge styling. It has a great feel to it. It looks
super smooth. It's all machine aluminum. You have these now
thicker hinges that were I think came on the template 2
inch bridge keyboard first but now they've made their way down
to this bridge Pro Plus they still have the same keyboard
layout.
It looks mostly the same actually with the trackpad
being the biggest difference here. So we still have the USPS
charging except for this time now you're eating three months
of battery life opposed to 12 months of battery life on this.
Really it's it's mostly the same here that the hinges look
a little bit differently and they give you a little bit more
what appears to be a little more grittiness on the iPad.
Still the same design here in the front but again in the back
there about thumb with wide opposed to here on the classic
Bridge or the bridge pro where it's just maybe about a pinky
wide so the keys feel exactly the same. You know there's
really no difference in the key press release from my initial
or using of it which has been about three or four hours but I
really want to comment on the track had functionality because
I think that's what most people care about now.
I don't really know how to describe the trackpad other
than it's a little bit inconsistent. This may be the
best way.
So first thing you notice is that or to note is that the
track pad up here does not work at all. It doesn't click. So
So I think it's dead because I think there are some gestures
but I can't get the gestures to work out of the box about now
at 200 dollars for the eleven inch to twenty nine for the
twelve point nine inch. I would say that you know this is not
easy to recommend based on the functionality at least come out
of the box.
It doesn't necessarily have it's not a monolithic gesture
trackpad so you can't use you know two fingers three finger
gestures to go ahead and navigate around the i pad or
I've had OS like you can on the magic keyboard it doesn't work
that smoothly.
So I think the most frustrating part here for me is that I if I
want to scroll up or down I can't to go to this far left
hand corner or sorry far right hand or far left hand corner in
order to go and scroll out.
That is super janky to me. I would describe it as like the
trackpad is conflicting with the operating system with the
gestures. I even updated my i pad to the beat a 13 four five
hoping it would work better. It did initially work better but
still ness was the magic keyboard so big difference
there.
These instructions don't seem to work because I can not get
it to invoke any of these three functions so app X was a it
tells me to go ahead and simple to finger tap of the trackpad
so two fingers. Right we got two fingers here.
I don't have three or anything like that
if I'm like I'm moving all around it
and I'm tapping not even clicking
that doesn't that doesn't work. Home
Home screen
jump straight jump straight back to the home screen with a
single tab in the bottom right or bottom left hand corner of
the eye pad. OK so I don't know where this is because here I
go. Here in the bottom left hand corner of the iPad not of
the trackpad. That doesn't work. I can click on something.
Yeah. So this does not work either.
I can't swipe left to reverse and Safari pinch to Zoom is not
supportive which I understand. That's fine but maybe I'm doing
it wrong. It could quite certainly be possible. Let's
take a look at the instructions that they send now. Any time
that you have to pull out instructions I think you're
gonna be in a bad place. So let's see here customize the
trackpad. I shouldn't have to customize it. I guess it should
just work. To further enhance the trackpad experience of your
iPad. We suggest the following. I would say that all in all you
know using it.
It's got a nice way to get a nice finish when you think
about what is the difference between the magic keyboard at
300 and or 300 or 300 yards spending was eleven point nine
inch and this at one ninety nine or two twenty nine. I
would say it's a lot of usability at this point. It's
probably a hard recommendation. It doesn't really function
ideally two twenty nine for the eleven inch. I would probably
rather buy the iPod smartphone or keyboard and then buy the
magic trackpad if I wanted something separately.
This does not it. It's a good first pass but not really
usable in its current state. Now they stated they being
Bridge said that Apple is supposed to be releasing no
updates for this and Bridge's coming up with some updates in
the form of an iPod OS app much like the Logitech app that I
reviewed for the combo touch but again I'm still kind of a
hard sell at this moment. Let me know what questions that you
have in the comments below. I'm going to go in and continue to
use this. See what I like what I don't like and I will report
back to you very soon.
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talk to the next one.
This is pretty frustrating.
I have no idea why I came into tobacco anyways.
You know work smoothly or I actually would rather I match
my shirt. While this is totally not precision
Like these. This key has a mind of its own. Wow.