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Review on Bluetooth IClever Sensitive Pocket Sized Tri Folded by Eugene Cox

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Functional but fragile.

After researching way more about foldable Bluetooth keyboards than any other product, I found that all of these keyboards have a lot in common; They're all cheaply made, almost all made in China, and they all copy each other's design to the point where there's not much reason to choose one keyboard over another. After all my research, I decided to go with the iClever keyboard. just because it's what my sister wanted for Christmas. I got mine playing Super Metroid on my phone with Retroarch and actually have the reaction time not to die/actually have fun. This keyboard allowed me to do it when I wanted to. That was several 2-3 hour game sessions in the last 2 weeks. This morning I accidentally dropped my keyboard from waist height. That was enough to break one of the adorable tabs at the end of one of the loops. This is one of the tabs that the keyboard must have to keep it intact and working (the keys still work but nothing else to keep the 3 sections of the keyboard together, it will only be a matter of time before it does). the keyboard is completely broken). I understand that making these particular ultra-small parts out of the same material (apparently aluminum) as the keyboard back would likely make the keyboard astronomically more expensive and that this additional cost would likely be doubled down to such consumers as me (not for me personally. If a keyboard which looks like it would cost *more* than these if I wouldn't buy them), but those hinges are *structural components of the entire keyboard, and they're made out of pretty much the very cheap quality plastic! . Now I'm waiting for some gorilla epoxy to do the job of reattaching the latch (applying the epoxy in the closed position of the keyboard to keep the base of the latch away from the rest of the keyboard while the epoxy cures) and hopefully can I continue to use this keyboard. For everyone else: you probably won't find too many Bluetooth keyboards that are better, but if you do get these, be prepared to deal with a broken keyboard when you finally drop it. small side and are very close together. Some keys have even been moved to awkward places to make the keyboard more compact. simultaneously. Retroarch does not explicitly recognize these key entries. Guess which keys are automatically associated with saving and loading save states? All important function keys. I had to reorder everything.

Pros
  • GOLS certified
Cons
  • Not sure