Azio KB337BP Wireless Media Keyboard With Touchpad Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2012-05-07
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now you guys gave me a really hard time when I unboxed that uh that keyboard
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that had the built-in iPhone dock that you could make you could use your iPhone
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as a touchpad and the keyboard or you could use the keyboard to type on your
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iPhone well here is a more PC oriented
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product it's not expensive compared to the other one it has a Windows logo
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right on it it has a limited lifetime warranty and this is for the multimedia
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PC as well so this guy has a keyboard
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and a touchpad built into it it uses
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Bluetooth it has six internet hot Keys 14 embedded media keys and on the back
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let's see some other product features here okay six internet hot keys and 14
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media Keys okay connecting a hot switch
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between six toast devices that's interesting all right what else do we
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got here operating distance operating oh
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wow up to 33 that's not bad that's uh
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going to work pretty much anywhere inside your house in theory so keystroke
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life is 10 million all this good stuff you know what let's just get this baby opened up because this is from AO this
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is actually which model is this ah okay so this is the KB 337 BP and this is the
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kind of product that I would use that I would quite enjoy we've had stuff like
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this on the market for a long time actually but a lot of it has been cost
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prohibitive as you guys pointed out to me when when I unboxed that other
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product that was like $100 for what was
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essentially a keyboard that had a dock on it so I do
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see your point this guy is quite a bit
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cheaper and comes with batteries it's wireless
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that was the other problem with the other one is it wasn't Wireless you actually needed wired power for it so I
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understand that complaint as well although I have been using it and is it
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is it is it is pretty decent for my purposes so let's plug this guy
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in there we are that's pretty much the
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entire setup process and let's have a look at the physical keyboard itself so
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it's quite light which is nice because when you're sitting on the couch you
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know you're like this you got a keyboard on your lap you don't want some big old
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heavy thing it's also actually this the curvature is good as well so you can see
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how it goes from flat and it angles down a little bit to be curved so what that
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means is that you are leaning forward a little bit to to type on the keyboard or
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like your your hands are like this and then to use the touchpad you're you're
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coming up like this which is actually very natural Okay so we've got um really
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are those are those touch sensitive cool so we've got a bunch of hot Keys here we
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have all of your usual kinds of media keys so we've got uh play pause forward
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back stop volume up volume down uh you
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can that looks like locking the touchpad so that's kind of handy as well now in
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terms of the key quality it's about what I would expect it's um about what you
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would see on an average kind of laptop
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so very short travel distances fairly
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quiet so if you're up late watching TV or watching YouTube videos on your on
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your television on your media PC or whatever the case may be then you're
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probably not going to be disturbing anybody if you're typing on this it is a
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Bluetooth keyboard so you will need a receiver uh bear that in mind you guys
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it does not come with a receiver
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and yeah I think that's pretty much all there is to say about it one thing that
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really stands out to me about it though is it has a a really nice brush finish
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here so it makes it look kind of sharp because the thing about a media keyboard
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is it's probably you know if you're if you're kids or relatives or anything
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like the people that I know you know this is going to end up just kind of
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thrown on the couch after people are done watching TV and it's going to kind
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of sit there so you want it to look pretty decent uh rather than just you
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know being like some beige thing that doesn't have a nice finish on it because
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people are going to see it when they come over potentially
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I think that's pretty much all there is to say about it why don't we just get some closer product shots at this so you
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guys can see what's involved and let me just have a look at
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uh here's a little instruction quick important information actually thing so
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why don't I tell you about this while you while you kind of check out the keyboard here check it out from that
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Angle now so you can
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um press here to enable disable use of the touchpad so yeah that is indeed what
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this does to pair multiple bluetooth devices all you have to do is press and
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hold the reset button until the connection LED is blinking then use your device's Bluetooth utility and search
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and connect to the keyboard so it's kind of a Bluetooth Hub which is also kind of
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neat you just press function and then the number you used when pairing the
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device oh cool to to pair two devices 1
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to six so that's kind of neat it's good to read documentation okay next we have
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uh the pairing guide for the keyboard and then we also have this is actually
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really neat it comes with a diagram most keyboards expect you to just kind of
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stumble your way through it so this gives you a diagram of what all of the
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keys here are bound to by default a pairing guide you've got this reference
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sheet okay if you are buying this product for your parents for example my
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parents they're not techsavvy at all so what I would do is I would take this
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guide and I would tape it down inside
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the drawer of their TV stand and then
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it's there forever so that way if anyone calls me o the touch pad's not working
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and I say okay press the function oh what's the function key oh the FN key
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the one the blue one but all the keys are black no the one with the blue text
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well there's a bunch with blue text the one with the blue text that says function but it says FN see I'm trying
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to diagnose this over the phone so I don't have the keyboard in front of me right so I don't have to explain it all
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I have to say is hey go look at the piece of paper I taped it there for a
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reason so that's actually really handy I appreciate that it cost them almost
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nothing to print out this piece of paper but it's very useful and finally we have
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a quick start guide which looks like it covers how to put in the batteries
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pretty much all right so thank you for checking out my unboxing of this
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particular AO keyboard the KB 337 BP
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