Jelly Comb Dual Mode Bluetooth and USB Wired Rechargeable Portable Foldable Mini BT Wireless Keyboard with Touchpad Mouse for Android, Windows, PC, Tablet (Dark Grey) Wireless Standard Laptop Keyboard Compatible with Desktop, Laptop, Mac (Black)

Product Description

Design

The Jelly Comb tri-fold keyboard is made from a shiny grey plastic that's easily mistaken for metal at first glance. I would call it more functional than design-savvy. Let's hope it's successful and we can see some limited-edition versions.

Completely closed, the foldable keyboard only measures 12mm thick, allowing it to easily slide into your pocket or bag.

A downside to the keyboards tri-fold design is that it's only usable on a flat surface as there is no locking mechanism to keep the keyboard rigid once unfolded. I would have liked to have seen a couple of kick-out feet as well so that you could raise the keyboard slightly when typing,g but this would come with its own set of engineering problems to overcome.

"... Super portable & travel friendly..."

The Jelly Comb tri-fold keyboard is a nice piece of kit, and it's weighty enough so that its rubber feet keit is steady whilst typing, but light enough to throw in your pocket and forget about until needed.

Keyboard

It certainly takes a bit of getting used to typing on the Jelly Comb tri-fold keyboard. The main reason for this is that, to incorporate the tri-fold design,n certain keys had to be downsized. When you first start using the keyboard, you'll often miss the half-sized keys 'T, D & V'. The Backspace has also been moved and is now in place of the 'delete' key.

All these changes make sense when you see how compact the keyboard is, and with a little time and some practice, I got used to the smaller keys and my mistakes became less frequent.

My biggest put off with using the keyboard is that when I touch type at fast speeds the keyboard often responds as if I've hit keys twice, adding in extra letters to words where they shouldn't be. This happened mainly on the 'E' & 'T' keys.

If I slowed down my typing a little, the problem disappeared.

Touchpad

The touchpad uses a smooth pad placed on the right-hand flip of the tri-fold design. It's no substitute for the accuracy of a mouse, but it was very responsive during testing. To click using the touchpad,d you either tap (for left click) or two-finger tap (for right click), as there are no physical buttons on the touchpad.

The touchpad also recognises up to four fingers at once, so you can use all the built-in swipe functions in Windows 10 and mobile OS.

Connectivity

Jelly Combo deserves 10/10 for connectivity. I love that they included a built-in battery that charges via a standard micro-USB port. This allows you to charge the keyboard anywhere & on the go via a portable power bank.

Setting up a Bluetooth Connection was a breeze, and after not using the keyboard for a while, it reconnected to my laptop, tablet & phone speedily.

To connect, you have to enter the prompted code into the keyboard and hit the Enter key. Once connected, it will automatically reconnect to that device.

The bottom Line

I think the Jelly Comb tri-fold keyboard solves a real problem that a lot of us have, which is being able to type on a physical keyboard on the go. I can see myself using the keyboard whilst travelling on trains or planes due to the limited amount of space and ease of bringing along a tablet instead of a laptop.

It's definitely a step up from using a touchscreen,n but it's not perfect either. The double-tapping of some letters when typing at fast speeds is definitely a negative and one you should consider.

What we loved

• Magnetic Close Mechanism
  
• Built-in Battery (Micro-USB)
  
• Smooth / Responsive Touchpad
  
• Easy to set up & Reliable Connection
  
• Android, Windows & iOS compatible.
  
• Windows 10 Gesture compatible