What is going on everyone, it is Mike a nd welcome back to
Tech 24/7 TV.
So it's been about a week since Brydge started shipping the
10.2- inch keyboard for the 10.2- inch iPad seventh
generation a nd I've been using it for about a week. And I
really like this keyboard for that device.
Now that does have, you know, it's very much premium in the
sense that it's all machined aluminum, it has
three levels of backlit keys, it has those function keys on
the top. It doesn't come with the back cover strangely enough
like the iPad Pro. But it does have a very good typing
experience and that's why people would you know pay this
one hundred thirty dollars for this keyboard because the
typing experience
And the look and feel now if you are not familiar
with Brydge. They make a number of different wireless keyboards
for the iPad, the surface. I think even the Galaxy Tab if
I'm not mistaken.
And this is kind of just another part of
their lineup. Now, this keyboard was not
provided by Brydge and I did buy this with my own money so
this is video is not sponsored. Just to be clear on that.
But this keyboard it if you're not familiar with Brydge,
your iPad
goes into these hinges and it just kinda slips in making
it this. Almost like mac book like and just kind of adjust
the fit very nicely and you are off to the races. So from the
you know look and feel of it, n one of the ports are
obviously obstructed. The power button and sleep wake up and
still hear the volume button. That's not changed on the
bridge pro itself. There is a micro USB port to charge the
battery which is rated to last 12 months depending on your
usage whether or not you have a keyboard always lit and how
much you use on a per day basis.
This size is highly attractive - to me, at least - based on
you know using the twelve point nine inch iPad P ro every day.
It's kind of nice to have it a little bit smaller of a laptop.
Plus I have a 15 inch MacBook Pro back there somewhere. But.
This is nice. I do like it. This has all of the same kind
of classic Brydge characteristics.
I t's all machined aluminum, It has a one year battery life,
one year warranty as well. The there are a number of
viewing angles that you can set this up in from you
know basically flat, 180-degrees to all the
way closed.
So any you know unlimited number of viewing angles.
it does have Bluetooth 4.0. So it's not a sound different
version of Bluetooth in case you're wondering about that.
All in all I would say that this is a very
premium keyboard. There's no doubt about that given the
price of one hundred and thirty dollars. I would say
that if you are in the market for a keyboard this is probably
going to be one of the nicer options. You know you
have these function keys that are up at the top.
Everywhere from home button, lock, raise and
lower the keyboard brightness, because it is an adjustable
backlit keyboard
Screen brightness, b ring up the on screen keyboard,
the media controls, volume controls,
battery, Bluetooth, and power.
Outside of that. You have a CAPS LOCK button that will go
ahead and give you a bright visual indication that the caps
lock button is enabled. There also is a dedicated Siri
button here located in the bottom left hand corner of
the keypad.
As well as the the inverse or upside down ti arrow keys in
the bottom right hand side. So not a whole lot of change
from the 12.9-inch inch iPad Pro.
Now I've only been using this for about a week and I think
the typing experience is going to be very good especially
considering the price I think it should be at $130 bucks.
But the keyboard is you know the keys have a very nice soft
no texture to them they are backlit.
Let's try something here. You turn that off
now we should have a very faint light here
All right. Awesome.
So I think that again from having the
adjustable keys, sorry, the adjustable backlit
keys . The number of different function keys on top.
Good typing experience keys aren't too mushy right.
Let's take a listen to a
sound.
They sound good and they do feel good. Strangely they do
feel different than the or they do sound different than the
twelve point nine inch Brydge P ro. It has a good feel to it.
Right in this has I think all the the features I would expect
from a premium keyboard these hinges are really nice. I don't
they don't feel so these don't feel, let's take a
little break here .
So these don't feel flimsy and these being the 12.9-inch
on the Brydge keyboard these don't feel flimsy but they're
not quite as easy to turn and because the way that the
vessels are shaped on the iPad Pro these need to be thinner.
These are not texturized except it's a very very small part No
actually another look at it. These are just barely texturized
where on this 10.2- inch iPad had the entire rubber sleeve is
texturized probably giving it more friction and making it
harder for to slip out.
So here are the things that I really like about this keyboard
one the quality of it is extremely high a nd I would say
that out of all the bluetooth keyboards that I've seen for
the iPad and iPad Pro, Brydge makes kind of some of
the nicest again.
But you're going to pay for that. It's one hundred and
thirty dollars. You've a choice between three different colors
which match your iPad.
Now at 130 bucks. It does have I think all the features that I
would expect. It does have the function keys which I like.
It does have a dedicated caps like button that illuminates.
It does have an upside down arrow key.
What I don't like is one the cost at one hundred
and thirty dollars, i t's not really made for everybody.
It's one third of the iPad and this could only be used with
this iPad because these hinges are machined to be a certain
size and unlike the smart folio keyboard from Apple, you can
use that with the nine point seven inch iPad you can use it
with a ten point two inch.
iPad had this one the temple a five inch iPad Air even the ten
point five inch I've had pro from 2017.
So there's more reusability there in terms of how that
keyboard can be used depending on which you know how you
upgrade if you buy this keyboard you have to use it
with this iPad.
So these are really my initial observations after using the
keyboard for the past week. But let me know in the comments
below if you have any questions or comments on the Brydge
keyboard for the ten point two inch iPad.
I am Mike and I will talk to in the next one
Holy ****, what was that?1?!
What has gone on everyone it is Mike. And welcome back to
Tech 24/7 TV. Now this is the ten point two inch. Oh my God I
did it again