hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is Logitech's latest keyboard combo
touch for the iPad a seventh-generation it's also available for the iPad air
third generation and we'll take a look at it with the iPad 7th generation but
it comes in at $149.95 so the interesting thing about this is
it has a trackpad with backlit keys and if we flip it over here you'll see it
says backlit keyboard trackpad iOS shortcut keys keyboard connects via
smart connector so no batteries are needed and it has adjustable viewing
angles this was just released on Apple's website and it actually came packaged
like this there was no wrapping on it or anything like that it was just in the
box like this so we'll slide it out here and this is about half the price of what
Apple is charging for the new magic keyboard that has similar functionality
or connectivity but here's the keyboard itself and this reminds me a lot of a
surface keyboard with the trackpad backlit keys and we'll take a closer
look in a moment but it says combo touch and it feels very much like the first
generation smart keyboard for the iPad pro so it's got that lip around the edge
for the keyboard here's the case and it should hold the Apple pencil let's see
if I can get this out of here there we go it should hold the Apple pencil and
this little loop here and it's a fairly thick case but it's got a little wrapper
on here so let's take this off and I guess that allows us to open the back up
there we go so it allows us to angle it a few different degrees so we'll take a
close look at that in a moment and then inside we just have this paper here or
probably in a manual that tells you how to use it so it just has a little bit of
instructions and then it looks like a warranty pamphlet and that's it so let's
set the packaging aside and take a closer look at the keyboard itself now I
did quickly try this out with the third generation iPad air to see if it would
work and it works fine it might be a little bit thick for that but it's
rubberized it's fairly thick pretty rigid but it is fairly thick and then
this is the keyboard and like I said it reminds me a lot of a surface keyboard
maybe combined with a smart keyboard from Apple and it's got a click a little
touchpad it's only clickable down at the bottom not at the top but it's clickable
and you've got a pretty throw on the keys so that looks pretty
good let me grab the seventh generation iPad that I have here and we have the
smart connector with pogo pins on the bottom so this will allow us to use this
new keyboard using the power from the iPad itself so we'll just slide this
into place like this clicks in and if we don't want to use the keyboard with it
we can just use it like this as a case and then put the keyword on later and so
you'll see it exposes the bottom where we have the Pogo pin opening here and
then on the bottom here there's speakers it's fairly thick though if you can see
that and we have speakers and our lightning adapter here so we can connect
it there and then if you have an Apple pencil you can slide this into place so
slide it in like that and it holds it nice and snug and then we have an
opening for the camera which this gives you an idea of depth it's a pretty thick
case and then we have an opening for the microphone and then if we want to set
this up like this it bends pretty far so we've got a pretty decent Bend there now
let's plug it into the keyboard here it's magnetic and just snaps into place
and it says app not installed the accessory combo touch uses an app that
you do not have installed do you want to get it let's try it out so it looks like
we can lay this down a little bit further so we can lay down the iPad like
this if we want and you've got a nice angle on it for viewing and it seems to
be pretty rigid no matter where you place it it seems to stay in place
pretty well so you want it back like that it's fine now one thing I noticed
right away is you can't fold it up like you cut a surface keyboard so if you're
used to that it won't work like that and then we have some shortcut buttons here
so we have buttons for brightness on the display we can turn it up or down and
then we've got a keyboard button and then we've got a search button for
spotlight we can bring the keyboard brightness up or down so the keyboard
itself is backlit so if I turn off the lights here you can see the keyboard is
backlit let me turn the screen brightness down and that gives you an
idea that there is a backlight there then we also have some volume keys so
let's go home I've got some volume keys to bring the volume up or down or mute
it and then we've got play pause or back we'll play media now if you buy this
keyboard you obviously want a keyboard for your iPad and maybe you plan to do
serious work on it maybe you're going to use Microsoft Word or pages but let's go
into notes and see what it's like to type on so hi how are you today
and that felt pretty good you can tell where the keys are I'm good how are you
and the keyboard is a little small I can definitely tell I would miss the return
key and maybe hit a few keys before it so that may be something to get used to
but the actual feel of the keyboard is quite good so this keyboard works well
and it seems like it's pretty good so the throw of the keys the resistance the
actual the actual feel or tactile feel of them is quite good it reminds me of
maybe a slightly shortened version of what we have on the 16 inch MacBook Pro
or the new MacBook Air with the scissor switches so I think Apple did a good job
here and I don't normally type like most people so I could type hi everyone this
is you'll see how I type it's a little bit different than most people but it
gets the job done for me most of the time and it feels pretty good I can tell
where most of the keys are but again the small return and caps lock
may be an issue from time to time but in general I think most people will have no
problems with this at all so everything feels very solid and it
doesn't feel cheaply built the only concern I have maybe as this lip around
the keyboard it feels kind of strange but it held up well on my iPad pro smart
keyword from the first generation so maybe this one will - and now we have
the trackpad as well so I didn't do anything to activate this or turn it on
or anything like that it just worked so if I swipe up with three fingers and
hold it will bring in any apps that we have open click and we go back let's go
home here and then let's try and right click or two finger click on settings
and then we've got our quick actions here so it looks like it works just like
you would expect again swipe up go home we can swipe left to right we've got all
the gestures enabled and we've got this full trackpad and it feels pretty
responsive let's go to Safari here slide it's over and then scroll through it's
pretty nice the trackpad actually feels really good feels very similar to what
you get on them a Mac really so it works pretty well if we go home or back in
swipe left or right so that part's nice let's check out the app from Logitech so
we have a couple different options here so you didn't have to install this to
use the keyboard but it gives you a couple other options so one of them is
the time it takes for the keyboard backlighting to turn off after eck
inactivity so five seconds all the way up to 60 seconds and then we also have
fade speed at which the lights fade off so we can have them fade slow or fast
which is nice it's a nice little touch it's not really necessary but we have
those options for this keyboard now you can use this for whatever you would use
a trackpad for on your iPad and you don't have to use it like I said you can
just take it off use it for media viewing maybe you want to view some
content watch a movie now when you're done with it and you want to use it as a
case and just keep everything safe click down the keyboard close it and it shuts
off the display so open it up the display turns on close it and it turns
off now one thing to note this is very thick in fact you can see here with the
headphone jack how thick it is but to give you an even different idea how
thick it is refer comparison here is an iPhone 10 R and an iPhone 11 so if I put
those next to it right next to the case itself you'll see
that the case is actually about the same thickness as an iPhone 11 and 10 are
stacked with cases on them from Apple so these are Apple cases on those devices
so the combo touch from Logitech is very thick but it should protect it if you
drop it because you have that thick rubber barrier around the whole thing
now the only thing that may be an issue for a few people is the texture of this
material this material feels somewhere in between what Apple has for their
smart keyboard the cloth keyboard covered keys and plastic so it's
somewhere in between that it does feel like it's sort of a nylon plastic feel
and the texture may be a problem for some people it doesn't really bother me
too much and I'm pretty sensitive to those things but it has a specific sound
that may bother some people so just keep that in mind the keyboard sounds pretty
good though it doesn't feel cheap and it seems like it's going to stick together
pretty well and I love that it doesn't have batteries so that's really nice now
if you have an Apple pencil and you're using the pencil loop that we have here
the pencil feels nice and secure it's not going to fall out if you're just
carrying it around throwing it in a bag it's in there nice and snug the only
thing you may have to worry about is the cap for the pencil and then another
thing that I noticed is where you have your volume buttons the pencil sort of
in the way so you push it out of the way a little bit and you have to give it a
good amount of force to actually press the volume up and volume down because of
the thickness of this case so it's just something that seems like a little bit
of annoyance but you can turn the volume up and down on the keyboard itself so
you don't necessarily need these buttons but I guess they're there if you're not
using the keyboard with it so it's really nice and again it's available for
the iPad air 3 and no one sent me this I actually bought it myself so I want to
try it out and you have all the functionality that you expect from a
mouse on an iPad so it's really pretty interesting to use of an iPad with a
trackpad but I'll be using it more with the Magic Trackpad on the iPad pro a
little bit later on when I can get my hands on one of those but let me know
what you think of the combo touch in the comments below is this too thick for you
to use or is it something you think would make your iPad that much more
useful let me know in the comments below if you'd like to see more videos about
this or have any other questions or how it would compare to say Apple's smart
keyboard or anything else you'd like to see I always love to hear what you have
to say in the comments if you'd like to get your hands on the wallpaper that I
have on the iPad from this video I'll link it in the description as I always
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see you next time