Cideko Air Keyboard Conqueror PC & PS3 Air Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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so here's another product from sedo which uh actually is very similar to The
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Air keyboard the one that I looked at last time however there are a couple of
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key differences between the Air keyboard and the Air keyboard conqueror for PC
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and PS3 so one is that this guy works with PC and PS3 and the other is that
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instead of being purely an air mouse and I'll explain a little bit what an air
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mouse is in just a moment as well as a keyboard This one is also a dual analog
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game pad so check this out so you can see they've built in the x square
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triangle and circle logos that use that
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play Sony PlayStation uses but they've also numbered them for PC use you've
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also got your d-pad up here so actually feels fairly well built too it's got
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kind of a rubberized grippy thing going on on the sides here this side and this
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side and then these have also a bit of a textured rubberized finish to the top of
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them and uh what do we got here so you got your power you got your left and
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right click I like the way they've implemented left and right click on this
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one versus the way it was done on the other one where this was left click and
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this was right click so I mean that kind of worked but I think I I do prefer this
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I have to wonder if you can use the analog stick as a mouse uh I wonder if
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they mention that on the specification so let's see oh this is cool too okay so
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here why don't we go through what they have to say about it so frequency range
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okay 2.4 GHz gotcha built-in lithium ion
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rechargeable battery so the other one you have to change the batteries yourself this one looks like it charges
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via USB which is really really nice uh
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what else we got here operation time greater than 20 hours of constant use
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which is awesome charging time is 3 to 4 hours effective range up to 10 met I'm
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inclined to believe that based on how well the sedo Air keyboard has been
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working for me so far it's actually replaced all of my other devices for my
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htpc including my uh Phantom lapboard
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including my uh what was that brand I had an AO I had one of those AO
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Bluetooth keyboards it was about this big had a trackpad on the side I was
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using one of those for a little while and that one I just kind of I gave up on
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once I started using this guy well the other one of these and uh what else did
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I try you know what it's just it's just
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a size thing because for me having a keyboard on the couch was just too
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inconvenient even if it had an attached trackpad and especially something like
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the Phantom lapboard where it had a separate Mouse it was just it wasn't
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that it wasn't really very elegant hunting around for two pieces whereas
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for this I can just pick up one thing so the way the air mouse works is you just
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kind of position it somewhere and it'll zero itself and then you go okay I want
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to move down I want to move up I want to move left I want to move right so you kind of position things it's reasonably
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accurate although this is not a super um Ultra Premium brand by any stretch of
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the imagination and so you know it wasn't necessarily what you might expect
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out of someone like an apple if they were to release a product like that but
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it is accurate enough that I can sit on my couch about 12 15 ft away from my TV
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and I can quite easily navigate this is at 1080p so we're talking small Mouse
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pointers and small boxes to hit when I'm closing programs or opening up a file or
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doing whatever else it is I want to do and then all I do is I take it I put it
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down on the counter then the mouse goes away I watch my movie and it's h very
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very convenient and the size is perfect cuz it fits in a drawer you just grab it
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use it you can type very easily so the full quity keyboard includes almost
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every button you need once again with this model so you got even F keys I
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don't think the other one has F Keys that's uh that's outstanding uh caps
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lock you got shift over here the other one had two shifts so I'm actually going
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to kind of miss that other shift but this one they've put in a Windows key here other one has a Windows key uh up
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at the top somewhere so they have changed the layout a little bit but I don't see any real problems one thing
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that I'm curious to see if they've addressed is the no they haven't
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addressed this I would like to see the home row more like in the center and if
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they compress the keyboard a little bit on this side that would be nice CU otherwise you're kind of you're reaching
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over a little bit more with your right hand but as long as you sort of remember
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and you don't try to just touch type from from a center like this then it's
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not that big of a deal um I think I do like the keyboard on the Air keyboard
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itself but if you want the additional convenience of of having a Gamepad built
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into it I guess this isn't a bad trade-off I like the way they've done the ergonomics as well so they've got
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kind of a contour thing here that is very comfortable it kind of sits between
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these two fingers here if you're using the game Bad portion and then you just
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hold it between these two fingers if you want to actually type on the keyboard
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the device is quite light sorry my assistant got attacked by a cat so uh
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that was not that ideal sounds like there's
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something inside this one maybe it was damaged during shipping but I'll try it
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out and I'll I'll let you guys know if it doesn't work that's probably the best
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approach to take take I have no idea what this port's
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for okay maybe that's something to do with PlayStation cuz I'm not much of a
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console guy so I don't always I don't always know these things but there's
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your charging I'm going to go ahead and throw the battery in here so it's got
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one of these covers on it to uh they want you to pull
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this oh come on you couldn't possibly want me to pull that no you want me to
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pull that if I want to remove the battery after I put it in there we
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go and then the last thing we've got
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here there batter is loaded oh look at that it's powered on already there you
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go you got a blue light there showing you it's powered on and last but not
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least we've got the charging cable which is just your standard USB a to mini B
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and then finally we've got the wireless dongle which as I mentioned before with
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mine the range is excellent the reliability is excellent compared to
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some of the other ones that I've used in the past that I haven't been nearly as
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impressed with so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the oh
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the shaking is gone oh no it's not at the sedo Air keyboard conqueror don't
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