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(More customer reviews)I got this product as a Christmas gift, and loved the idea of it. I work for a green-minded company that strongly encourages the use of iPads as a way to view documents electronically instead of printing them out, and it beats having to lug around a laptop that then has to be re-docked constantly.
Anyhow - there were a few things which I noticed right away. For one, the box that the case comes in says "leather case" in a few places. This case is NOT real leather, but synthetic leather. It does state this on the included instructions on the inside of the box, but the box itself says "leather" in a few different places. It looks ok, but you can tell it's not real leather when you touch it. It just feels like satiny cloth.
Next - the flap that should hold your iPad securely in its compartment doesn't close securely - instead it has a long, 3" flap that you have to either bend to fold in, or pull apart the delicate compartment that houses the iPad to fold in. It's really poorly designed. A piece of velcro on a much shorter flap would have made a lot of sense here.
The instructions are in broken English. It's fine that the product is made in China, but it just adds insult to injury that this was the most expensive iPad keyboard case offered on Amazon, and both the product itself and the instructions were so poorly put together. Right on the back of the box it says, "Continuous standby for 100 days, if you use 4 hours everyday that you can use 20 days." I'm not even sure what that's supposed to mean. I assume that you can use it 20 days in a row for 4 hours, with a standby time of up to 100 days... but who knows? The instructions are just as unclear, and there are only 3 steps to set up the Bluetooth connection with the keyboard.
Despite all of this, I still decided to use the keyboard. I can deal with the case being fake leather. English was my third language, so I am very forgiving of that - in fact, I could almost put together what they meant to say. But after carefully inserting the iPad and charging the keyboard for about 4 hours, it would not connect to my iPad. The instructions say to hold the connect button until the two blue lights flash, and they just never did. I turned on the Bluetooth connection on the iPad and it was never able to find the keyboard. On top of that, it made my wireless connection stop working whenever I turned the keyboard off to try it again.
Incidentally, the keyboard itself only has one SHIFT button on the left hand side. As a touch typist, this seems really annoying. There is an entire row of "F" keys at the top of the keyboard. There are no "F" keys on the iPad's own keyboard. Why are these here at all? Again, poorly executed design by someone who doesn't seem to own an iPad. Move the arrow keys above, and use that space for the additional SHIFT key.
Sad that my boyfriend wanted to get me a top of the line product and was willing to buy the most expensive product out there based on the great review that the employee posted.
If I ran this company, I'd fire the design and marketing teams, and start over again. After wasting an hour on this, I gave up and packed it all up, and it's going back tomorrow morning.
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