It is brilliant. Light but strong in aluminium and leather-look plastic. The tablet fits securely in the frame, which can be positioned in one of three angles depending on how you want to use it (typing, watching videos or whatever).
Magnets hold the lid onto the keyboard, also switching the iPad and the Bluetooth keyboard off when you close it, and on when you open it again. Very clever.
It looks good, too.
But...THERE IS ALWAYS BLOODY SOMETHING.
In this case, two things.
The iPad is so securely fixed in the folio you can't get it out again without forcibly springing it out. I fear it is going to break every time I do it. The result is that once the tablet is in the folio it will stay there forever. It becomes a rather heavy, expensive and under-powered netbook.
If I wanted a bloody netbook I would buy one.
So someone please produce a keyboard folio that makes it easy to slip the iPad in and out so you don't lose the tablet experience.
Compare the Belkin layout (left) with the layout on an iLuv keyboard folio (below). The B, for example, should be between G and H but it is one along under H and J.
Now this may not make any difference to pathetic hunt'n'peck slowcoaches but I and my fellow graduates of the Sight and Sound School of Typing in Charing Cross Road back in the good old days find this absolutely crippling. Every other word is wrong. It is as bad as predictive text.
There is a nasty trend for this and Belkin is not the only offender.
So, to you iPad accessory makers out there I say: HANDS OFF QUERTY. LEAVE THE KEYS WHERE GOD PUT THEM.
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