Review on CHESONA 360° Rotatable iPad 9th Gen Keyboard Case - Slim Cover with 7 Color Backlit, Apple Pencil Holder, Compatible with iPad Air 3rd Gen & iPad Pro 10.5 Inch - Black by Brandon Boones

A tablet keyboard/case needs to accomplish several things. First, protection. Next, comfortable typing. Having used a clamshell keyboard/case for the past 4 years on an Air 1, I've noticed that current keyboard/cases are based upon separateness…either removable keyboards or entire halves that disconnect (the benefit being the ability to use the Tablet in portrait orientation). This case, a true folio that completely wraps around the tablet, limits tablet use to landscape assuming a reclined tablet for easy viewing. Removing the keyboard certainly allows the tablet to stand upright in portrait orientation with the case folded a bit…but that'll be straight up, not reclined, and may be less than ideally stable. If you use the tablet in portrait/reader orientation you can fold the case behind the tablet; only time would tell how many folding cycles the case material could withstand without tearing…assuming that one is careful that'd be many. These musings are *not* to ding this product, they're just the nature of the design approach and a necessary tradeoff for the other, more important benefits. Those are:• A wraparound folio case. Clamshell tablet cases, even good ones, don't latch securely, so when dropped they open. Two crummy things may occur: first, the fall may crack a corner of the half holding the tablet, which leads to the second, an increased possibility or even likelihood of the tablet bouncing out of the case when the case hits the floor after losing a corner…which defeats the purpose of the case, doesn't it? I want a case not to disintegrate as it protects a tablet from a fall! I write from experience. The benefit of this product's design is that it wraps around the tablet 360º+, with a final 1.5" strongly magnetized flap providing the "plus". I'm not about to intentionally drop test this but my sense is that there's an equal chance of the case staying closed upon impact as opening, and a great chance of the tablet stying in its half because…• A 360º well-clasping tablet compartment. Unlike my old Kensington clamshell case, Chesona's desgn grabs the tablet with no gaps. And, they've smartly used a rubbery plastic material that uses friction to grasp the tablet than a harder plastic that clips on. This cases enclosure wraps around the entire tablet, and I don't think that tablet is gonna get loose. The back offers honeycomb shock absorption. Much to like about this aspect.• The keyboard feels great to my touch-typist hands. I find the keyboard enclosure's brushed surface texture to be a refined and cool design aspect. Yeah, you'll get somewhat longer life if you remember to turn it off; there's no auto on/off; no biggie.• The keyboard is strongly magnetized, it won't just fall off the case when on one's lap. Yet it's easy to either lift off the case or even, when opening the folio, just use the bottom of the tablet's enclosure to push the keyboard toward you until any or all of the 3 recessed slots are exposed. The keyboard will magnetically stick to either side of the case material (handy to keep everything together when using in reading mode).Two aspects that I wish were different, the first minor, the second tolerable. The minor one is that not all keyboard color settings will persist through off/on cycles. I find that blue-blue-blue does, where off-blue-off (my preferred minimalist lighting setting) will not; it always goes blue-blue-green when turned back on. So I just keep it blue-blue-blue and it's quick enough to cycle the side colors off. No biggie, but it oughtn't happen.The second aspect is intrinsic to the wraparound design, as far as I can tell. Where a clamshell case may be 7.5" deep overall when using the tablet, this wraparound case is 10" deep, taking up more table or lap space by comparison. The case is flexible, not stiff, with many folds. Lap use requires careful rebalancing compared to a clamshell design, else there's a potential for the tablet part of the case to fall backward over the knees. Again, this is not a ding against this product, it's simply an inherent part of the design and a tradeoff one might make against the wraparound benefits I've described above.