ZAGG Pocket Keyboard review: Little annoyances keep it out of contention - grahamyousand

At a Glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

• Built-in stand included

Cons

• Feels less sturdy than other takeout keyboards
• Not enjoyable to type on

Our Verdict

The Zagg Pocket keyboard isn't outright terrible, but with its questionable lastingness, unrivaled-deception crib built-in stand, and disappointing typing experience, there are better options to be had.

I've had a shell out of lot with ZAGG's smartphone and tablet accessories in the past. I've forked over cheeseparing to $300 to getup my iPad Mini 2 and iPad Air in their Rugged iPad Keyboard Cases. And for a long clock, the company's ZAGG Keys Cosmopolitan Keyboard recovered its way into my packsack whenever I needed to type on the fly. As such, I was looking forward to pickings the ZAGG Pocket Keyboard for a twirl. Alas, the user experience it offers is less than ideal, for a number of reasons.

Design

Quasi to former portable bluetooth keyboards like the Jorno, the ZAGG Pocket folds up to make information technology easier to carry around. While closed, information technology measures 8.8 x 2.2 x 0.6 inches—about the cookie-cutter dimensions of one of those sharing-sized Walmart burnt umber bars we've every shame-eaten in the past. When deployed, its dimensions modify to 8.8 x 7 x 1.75 inches. Much of the keyboard's height when opened comes from its built-in stand, which is big enough to suffer most smartphones or tablets. However, piece it handles the weight of a 9.7-inch iPad Pro or Surface 3, I couldn't help just feel that using tablets that much wider than the keyboard and its stand was unsafe.

While the built-in stand sounds ilk a great estimation, IT's actually trucking rig-irritating during use. You only get one viewing angle, devising it problematic to see what you're typing when using the keyboard in close proximity to your consistency—like connected an airplane tray table, for example. Additionally, the shelf that folds out of the stand to sustain your tablet Oregon phone from falling all over is only wide adequate to suit devices without a protective incase along them. Anyone who prefers the protection of a Griffin Subsister, Lifeproof, Beaver State Otterbox display case for their device will equiprobable find the ZAGG Pocket pretty useless.

The ZAGG Pocket is constructed out of aluminum and both passabl decent-quality plastic. But it doesn't feel nearly equally sturdy as the Jorno or EC Technical school keyboards do. I found that I was able to bend the ZAGG Air hole's aluminum shell with a nominal come of fingertip pressure. I could too turn the intact affair patc it was folded up. That's a level of fragility that doesn't make believe me hopeful for the keyboard's seniority. At the time that this roundup was written, the ZAGG Pocket could be had for anywhere between $50 and $70—and for that kind of money, I'd have likes to find a high level of durability from it. However, because ZAGG opted to use such lightweight materials in the keyboard's construction, the Scoop does only weigh 6.8 ounces.

Performance and final thoughts

Conjugation the ZAGG Pocket is functionally much the same as it is for similar keyboards. Depress the purpose key, click the chicklet with the Bluetooth symbol on IT, and you're in concern. Equally with the Jorno and its monovular counterparts, you turn on the ZAGG Pocket by unfolding it. To turn it off, crease it back up. When closed, the keyboard is held together by a pair of magnets.

Typing on the ZAGG Pocket was more knotty than on the Jorno, largely due to the difference in size up betwixt the two devices. The Sac is 1.61 inches narrower than the Jorno—as such, the keys on the Pocket are slightly smaller than about of those along the Jorno. There is single far-famed exception to this rule, however: The act keys on the ZAGG Pocket are the same size as its letter keys are.

On the Jorno, the count keys are reduced in sized to build place for a number of tablet-specific function keys. No more so much subprogram keys be connected the ZAGG Sac. The Bag's key layout has other quirks, too: though the keyboard's Blue-pencil key is a decent size, the Enter key is frustratingly small enough. I found myself missing it often enough to make Maine set the Pocket excursus from time to fourth dimension, in order to take a break from its exacerbation. Worst of every last, I found its key go off to be shallow and dissatisfactory. That's a deal breaker for a lot of serious typists.

With its questionable durability, one-trick pony shapely-in stand, and dissatisfactory typing experience, I'd recommend avoiding this particular keyboard.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/415470/zagg-pocket-keyboard-review-little-annoyances-keep-it-out-of-contention.html

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