iClever Foldable Keyboard, BK08 Bluetooth Keyboard with Sensitive Touchpad (Sync Up to 3 Devices), Tri-Folding Pocket-Sized for Windows Mac Android iOS

Ever try to use a laptop at a crowded airport bar during a flight delay? Or on an airplane with increasingly shrinking seat space? Now you don't have to. Remember the netbook craze where you ended up with a very underpowered laptop and low resolution screen? They call those mini/micro-laptops now and they are still underpowered with low res screens. Wireless keyboards aren't new, and portable bluetooth keyboards seem to be a dime a dozen...So what does the iClever BK08 offer that the countless other pocket bluetooth keyboards don't? True productivity in a pocket form factor. If paired with a screen that can display full-sized apps then you might have a real-deal laptop replacement. I am tired of lugging my laptop around, or having to keep a car nearby just to hold my computer and accessories in case I need to do work. Don't even get me started on a "lapdock" for a smartphone that has all the form factor drawbacks to a laptop with none of the processing horsepower.After getting fed up with my trusty but slightly flawed smartphone after a 10 minute unexpected work task took 30, I decided to upgrade to a folding phone so I could do no-kidding office work on my phone and display the level of detail I needed. After about a week I knew I was keeping the phone, but the onscreen keyboard was doing quirky things here and there I wasn't quite appreciating. For short periods of time it was fine, but if I wanted to do real productivity work the onscreen keyboard wasn't going to do.So I decided I needed a separate keyboard that was ultra-portable. After an hour of hour of looking around on Amazon, there was only one real option for me. The iClever BK08 had a touchpad with two physical buttons. Click and drag with one hand? Check. Right click for a context menu? Check. Right shift key? Check. All the keys you'd expect to have (Ctrl, Alt, Tab, F1-F12, etc)? Check. Being able to do office work productively anywhere without lugging around a tech pack? Check. And that's priceless.The keyboard was a little bigger than I was hoping for. After all this is a keyboard I bought to fold and go in a pant pocket. But after a couple of times actually walking around with it and unfolding it at a bar during happy hour (or on a random concrete pillar to type something out before I got distracted and forgot) the size of the keyboard actually became an advantage. One thing I noticed after only a couple of uses was that my typing speed was about the same as when using my laptop. On a lark I actually laid the iClever keyboard down by my laptop keyboard (coincidentally where the trackpad sits) and it has a typing surface that is about the same size. Not bad for something that fits in a pocket.I live in a walkable community, and one of the things that is going to be right next to my keys for when I am on the go is this keyboard. Definitely a game changer. Match this keyboard up with the right smartphone (and maybe a cheap, lightweight phone stand) and you have laptop replacement that bypasses the tablet device class altogether. You can use this with any device that accepts bluetooth keyboards, though, including tablets. For context I have included photos of the iClever BK08 keyboard placed by a foldable smartphone with unfolded screen, a tablet, and a laptop keyboard. The laptop has a 15" screen and the keyboards are roughly the same size.While using the keyboard I have had no issue with character pickup on the bluetooth connection, and trackpad has been accurate. The keyboard does not seem to have a power level indicator but I have not had an issue so far with battery life. I actually purchased two of these products, and one of the keyboards stays in my car in case I need to take an unscheduled meeting or work stop. The pack in phone/tablet stand works well, but I use a smaller product that folds a little flatter the cost me about $6. I keep the stand in my car in case I need to set my phone on an uneven surface.One improvement I would suggest is to have a multi-touch capable trackpad, but if using this with a touchscreen smartphone like I am it isn't really noticed because I zoom from the touchscreen. I only tested for multi-touch after reading a 1-star review that mentioned they could not scroll with two fingers. That is the first time I even thought to try it, so hadn't noticed. Also, another item for the wishlist would be backlit keys. But compared to the productivity boost this keyboard has provided me those are minor omissions. As a final side note: for gaming you would probably want to adhere some type of no-skid surface to the bottom of the keyboard.Bottom Line: This product combined with the right mobile device (smartphone, tablet, etc) can provide a laptop replacement-level productivity boost in a pocket form factor. This is a killer product for those want a mobile office without all the bulk.

I bought this primarily to use with an iPad, it is great for that. I am running iPadOS 13.4 on my iPad and the touch pad even works, mostly. Some multi-touch is supported, but other actions don't work. For example two finger swiping sort of works on the home screen to change pages and scrolling pages, but the touch pad is small compared to the screen so it works better for this if you turn up the scrolling speed of the Pointer Control in accessibility settings. In photos you can't pinch out to zoom in on a photo, but you can pinch in to go back to the photo collection. Three finger swipe up doesn't work to go home, but Command+H does. The point of adding a keyboard is to provide additional features and everything this provides is still a plus, nothing is taken away some the standard interface. Well, unless you count the elimination of a huge virtual keyboard blocking half of the screen when the keyboard is in use. Click and drag works for selecting text, but you have to hold down the left mouse button to drag. None of this is a deal-breaker for me, I am happy the touchpad works at all since it certainly wasn't designed for an iPad. I have found no way to turn off the tap-to-click touchpad feature if that matters to you. The USB port on the keyboard is for charging only, you can't use it as a connected USB keyboard by plugging it in. It connects as a keyboard only via bluetooth.I have also tried it with my iPhone and for that the keyboard works well. The touchpad doesn't work on an iPhone at all, but that is because iOS doesn't support it.I have had no issues with battery life. I haven't done extensive testing but my experience so far leads me to believe their estimates are reasonable. I think the "power switch" helps a lot with this. When you open the keyboard it powers up, close it to turn it off. Very simple and very natural.I also thought I might use this as a controller for a home theater. For this application the devices I might want to use a keyboard with are in a closet and this keyboard doesn't have the range needed. This could be to conserve power as it does have better range if it is plugged in to a power source, but that makes it less portable.I picked this keyboard over some slightly cheaper ones because the key arrangement is more "normal"". Others I looked at had the "C" key directly under the "F" key and while I am not super-fast on a keyboard I expected this would bother me. On this keyboard the keys near the hinge fold in a way that allows it to maintain a more normal arrangement of the alphabetic keys, though some punctuation keys have been moved to keep the keyboard small.Compact, portable, easy to switch between devices and the trackpad works even better than I expected with an iPad - I'm very happy to have this in my bag.