Logitech Keyboard Case for iPad2 Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,177 words · ~5 min read
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welcome to yet another product unboxing this is the well apply named Logitech
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keyboard case for iPad 2 so what this is
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is it is a keyboard and it is a case and
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it is for the iPad 2 yes I know it's for the iPad 2 just relax calm down don't
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hit the dislike button just yet because it's actually pretty cool if you have to
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be an iPad 2 user so check this out back of the box pretty much explains
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everything that this does so this is a zag co-bred co-bred co-branded product
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and manufactured by Logitech so my guess would be that zeg had something to do
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with the case itself and Logitech was primarily behind the keyboard it has a
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Bluetooth wireless keyboard which has a recess behind it that fits the iPad 2 in
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either portrait or landscape mode it wraps around the iPad 2 to cover the
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screen and the sides it uses highdensity padding to help cushion and protect the
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iPad 2 if you drop it and uses Precision cut aircraft grade aluminum which fits
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feels and looks great so the reason you would want uh don't back up and look at
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me the reason you would want aircraft grade aluminum oh yeah by the way this
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is the case I'm using for my iPad 2 right now it's a scorpion XO 700 helmet
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bag okay so obviously I needed an upgrade um the reason you would want
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that is that it's going to match the iPad 2 and look really good because if you have an iPad 2 odds are excellent
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that you care about your case matching it go figure right all right so let's
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open this baby up and have a look at the
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physical properties of it at the very least in this unboxing and First Look
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it's a little bit on the heavy side that would be uh that would be one criticism
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that I would have of it right off the bat although the iPad 2 is also a little
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bit on the heavy side given its size for a tablet let's look at the finish of the
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aluminum first since that's what people are very likely to care about so you can
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see it is actually quite different from the finish of the aluminum on the back
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of the iPad it has more of a of a pinkish Hue to it whereas the iPad 2 is
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more of a pure silver it's also quite a
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bit more textured than the iPad 2 although an advantage of having a more
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textured finish on the aluminum itself is that it will be more scratch
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resistant okay so next we have a USB
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cable so that USB cable I cannot fathom
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what we would need it for just yet so give me a second here here maybe it is
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yeah I guess that's if you wanted to use this as a wired keyboard although I
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can't imagine anything you would want to plug this into and use it as a wired
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keyboard given that it's so small speaking of the size of the keyboard
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it's actually not that bad to type on I would prefer if the space bar were a
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little bit more raised or if there were a recess right here because you can't
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quite pound on the space bar as much as you'd want but it is easily reachable
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you do have and this is a big Advantage here you do have long shift keys you do
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have an enter that is um let me see if I can yeah very easily reachable the
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backspace key or well delete key sorry I forgot we're using an Apple product here
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so you know we don't we have a command key well command I command you
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to search actually I don't think you need to press that so you've got
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dedicated Keys up here for search pictures keyboard cut paste paste copy
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paste uh you've got your media Keys as well as mute volume up and down and a
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lck key you have connect button here and then you can also turn it on or off and
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that's what this is for that's to charge it yes
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brilliant oh way to go lus okay so as I mentioned before the keyboard case can
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be used either in let's just close that either in portrait mode so you just put
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it in there like that there's pretty much no risk of your iPad 2 falling over
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or in landscape mode if you wanted to you know watch movies you know on air
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video or whatever the case may be okay so we'll go ahead and press the
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that button oh we're not bound yet okay
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so it looks like what you have to do is you have to connect it it's not on right
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now give me a sec so once I turn my
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Bluetooth on and press the connect button I can just click on the Logitech
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keyboard case by zag oh oh and I failed
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okay I can just click on the Logitech keyboard case by
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zag and we better try this again so to
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pair it all you got to do is turn your Bluetooth on and make sure you don't
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wait too long so you just enter the PIN
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76088 followed by enter on the keyboard
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and we should be connected so uh let's see if now when I open up an app such as
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Safari and I do this yeah so there now all of my media keys are working I don't
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know what media I have
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playing oh yeah there we go okay so there you go the keyboard is
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working so if I wanted to for example open up a uh notepad I could new note
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sure testing this
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keyboard it whoops it is responsive and
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I think I could get the hang of typing
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on it fairly quickly has a good layout
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actually reasonable TCT tactile feedback it's got all of the important Keys which
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is pretty critical for a small keyboard like this and actually that's very impressive so thank you for checking out
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my unboxing of the Logitech keyboard case it ain't cheap but it's pretty nice
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actually overall and let's just show you guys how it looks when you put the iPad
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in it so it has to be oriented a certain
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way okay so there's your iPad connector there there's your charger for this guy
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there's your headphone jack so you can still use the headphone jack as well as
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the uh standby button when it's in there and that's pretty much it yeah there you
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go there a Gap there thanks for checking out my unboxing