An almost perfect keyboard

An almost perfect keyboard

MAD CATZ Wireless Keyboard Qwerty STRIKEM for Smart Devices Android devices and Windows PC, Mac, iOS and PS 4 (Accessory)

Customer Review

It could have been perfect!

Start with the very good points.
Magnificent: The product is simply beautiful, very elegant, ultra design. Even the packaging is beautiful, it is almost like an Apple product before, except that here also the manufacturer provides a beautiful cover to transport and quun keyboard support, easel type to put his tablet during sessions of intensive strikes. A cable for charging the keyboard is also provided.
Lightweight: The keyboard is ultra portable. In its bag it fits everywhere safely and non-slip pads hold the perfectly hung on the table despite his légèretée.
Up to 4 machines: It allows sappairer with 4 different machines, which is better than its direct competitors, which generally offers up to 3 devices for the best. But even at 4 we say that 5 would be even better.
Backlight: The keyboard is backlit and this is super useful. It even offers a progressive backlight of 4 lighting levels and a fifth off. It's a little gadget I find, I put the keyboard is turned off completely or lit background.
A mouse in the keyboard: The mouse pointer! It may seem trivial but it's totally magical. Super convenient on Windows and Android, a little winded on Mac without adjusting the sensitivity and totally useless on iOS. Android natively supports the mouse, I discovered with this keyboard. A mouse pointer appears and BE was NetPC impression on a 2010s, a bit old and weird for a tablet but it works. Android is at The reverse Dios fully controllable from the keyboard except for back-home-tasks buttons that I can not find on the keyboard. We move on the icons with arrows and a screenshot you can even do it with the key "PRINT SCREEN" as on windows, practice. That's right quAndroid OS was originally a telephone keypad, before the iPhone creates an innovative dusages standard.
Control the sound and music: The keyboard offers a knob for adjusting the sound of the device and to launch a music title and move to the previous and next, significant. Only Windows 8.1 this dial is a bit "sluggish", it must be said that Microsoft decided that the sound would settle on 100 levels ... it is long compared to 100 levels 16 Mac for example.
Specific keyboard: The keyboard is made of precise and we feel the strike, this is very nice.

All of these are very positive, but there is a "but", see many "buts".

Keyboard too small: I havent yet not big fingers, but then the keys are too small. One makes mistakes constantly strikes. It keeps coming back to its input, it is unbearable. Even after hours of typing the problem is still there.
Incomprehensible disposal: The arrow key "up" is not exactly above the arrow button "down". This is super disturbing. the "DEL" is not the alternative to "BACKSPACE" key (is the "fn" key) but lost three lowest keys. Mac CMD sobtient key with a combination of 2 keys, as saying that the CMD-TAB to move dune application to the other becomes complicated, as CMD-SPACE to Spotlight. On Windows this is as bad, by cons on iOS and Android impossible to find a combination to simulate the HOME keys.
Mapping keys: None OS na properly mapped keys with the keyboard, no jealousy. iOS is probably the one with the shift keys. The Apple TV is a horror to this mapping, fortunately I would not write a novel about it. Android and Windows but also worries. For example, no hyphen ("-") presented nest on the keyboard, only an underscore ("_"), good luck finding where he is hiding and that is different on every OS! From quon fate of alphabetic keys, hello galley. And what idea of ​​having no escape key ("ESC") in direct access, not there must be a "fn" + another key. On AppleTV this is the "ESC" key allows to go back frustrating! Windows Fx keys (F1 to F12) are difficult to achieve. Even on PS4 there is a lag, but perhaps the least of all my tests. Only the "-" Always him walks. Too bad because the menus in the PS4 work perfectly with the keyboard, but alas the mouse is not supported, even in the internet browser.

What a pity.
This keyboard could have been perfect. Even the haphazard key mapping, is bearable, even the position of the arrow key "up" even the "ESC" but NOT the keys are just too small for regular use on the go. This is a shame.
Mr. Mad Catz, sil Please take advice from Mr. Fingers and Cadbury, and make us a key longer hair with slightly larger keys, you would have the perfect multi-keyboard devices. For now, and waiting to test the new Microsoft universal keyboard, this is Logitech K810 with its keyboard that has the best multi devices market for me.

Note: i tested this keyboard with iPhone 5c / 5s and iPad mini Retina iOS 8.1, Macbook Air in Yosemite, HP PC under Windows 8.1, Apple TV OS 6 2, Playstation 4, no animals were harmed during these tests, not even a crazy cat.

well with a few limitations 2 Rank: 4/5
November 8
Copy again! Rank: 1/5
August 25
Replaces original battery Rank: 5/5
December 29
A series of good ideas Rank: 5/5
June 10
very elegant 3 1 Rank: 5/5
January 26
Good product 1667 Rank: 4/5
February 26

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