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Brydge, the maker of keyboard accompaniments for iPads as well-built as other tablets, has a line of new accompaniments for Windows 10 devices that includes two new keyboards for the Translucid Pro as well-built as Translucid Go: the $149.99 Brydge 12.3 Pro Plus as well-built as $139.99 Brydge 10.5 Go Plus. Both keyboards are intentional to do the aforementioned thing: turn your Translucid dingus into a undeceivable clamshell laptop. As well-built as postliminary testing both models for a couple of weeks with a Translucid Pro 5 as well-built as a Translucid Go 2, I can ostend they do exhaustively that.

The keyboards function similarly to the models that Brydge has for Apple's iPad: they connect to your dingus via Bluetooth as well-built as have swivel clamps the tablet slides into. The hinges are stiff, so the tablet doesn't move when you touch it or are utilizing it on an zipped podium such as your lap, as well-built as they fecundate you to dewy it all up just like you would a standard laptop as well-built as throw it in your bag. When you appetite to use your dingus as a tablet, just pull it out of the swivel as well-built as go on your way.

Brydge has had a keyboard for the Translucid Pro for some time now -- this new model has a redesigned hinge, 70 percent larger trackpad, native multi-touch dominance in Windows, updated Bluetooth connectivity, as well-built as a plastic deck as repelling to aluminum. (The coal-and-ice of the keyboard is still metal.) It conjointly weighs 70 grams less. The 10.5 Go Spare is the headmost model from Brydge for the Translucid Go.

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Brydge 12.3 Pro Spare keyboard

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.. $149.99 at Brydge..

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Brydge 10.5 Go Spare keyboard

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The 12.3 Pro Spare has all of the aforementioned keys as well-built as glossiness as Microsoft's Translucid Type Cover

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Compared to Microsoft's own Translucid Type Cover, the Brydge models make the Translucid finger increasingly like a laptop as well-built as provide a numerous increasingly steadfast podium to assignment on. Both are made-up of metal bases with textured plastic decks as well-built as blubbery rubber foreboding on the bottom. They have a soften footprint than Microsoft's keyboards spine they don't rely on the Surface's kickstand to prop up the tablet. That's helpful when you're in tight quarters, such as when utilizing an airplane tray table. They conjointly snub the "thunk thunk" echoing sound that you get with the Translucid Type Enclosure when you're typing quickly, due to its exuberant design.

Both keyboards are backlit as well-built as have leafy layouts, including function keys for media control, dissimilation brightness, as well-built as keyboard backlight. The keys have inerrant feedback as well-built as biking -- I'd amount them on the preferably side of preferential laptop keyboards I've acclimated -- as well-built as while the backlight does spill out from vicinity the keys a bit, they are otherwise identically lit. The 12.3 Pro Spare has comparably sized keys to the Translucid Pro keyboard, while the 10.5 Go Plus' keys are slightly soften than Microsoft's version. However either one is cozy to type on postliminary a snippy period of receiving acclimated to its size.

Additionally, both keyboards have Windows Precision trackpads, with suture for all of the wonted multitasking gestures. Both have inerrant tracking as well-built as a smooth finish, although they are small -- well-heeled soften than Microsoft's own, once cramped trackpads. However briefed from the size, I have no complaints approximate the usability or personation of the trackpads.

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The Brydge keyboards are thicker as well-built as heavier than Microsoft's, however not so numerous to affectivity the portability of the Surface

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A USB-C quay is acclimated to transferral the Brydge's battery

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There are some other compromises you make with the Brydge keyboards. The preferential obvious one is that they connect to the tablet over Bluetooth instead of the pogo pins that Microsoft's keyboard uses. That agency they need to be manually commutual (a relatively painless shoot-out you personally do once) as well-built as answerable up occasionally.

A USB-C quay on the side of the keyboard is acclimated for charging, as well-built as the keyboard comes with a subscription however not a charging brick. You can transferral it off the tablet itself or use a bank charger or a standard USB battery. Charging off the tablet is awkward, as you have a lanky subscription sedulous betwixt the Translucid as well-built as the keyboard, as well-built as in the whoop of the Go Spare model, the charging quay is on the oppositeness side of the Translucid Go's USB port. Brydge claims that the hail lasts up to three months, so hopefully charging is an premium hassle.

The other big coop is in spaciousness as well-built as weight. The Brydge keyboards are thicker as well-built as heavier than Microsoft's. They are vicinity two-thirds as blubbery as the tablets as well-built as approximate twice the titivate of Microsoft's Type Cover. Those metrics sound like a lot, however in practice, the keyboards are rather thin. Well-heeled when indeed closed, neither is surprisingly chunky.

The Brydge keyboards do add one-dimensional heft, however. Co-ordinate to my scale, the Translucid Go 2 with the Brydge 10.5 Go Spare weighs 1,036 grams, or just over two pounds, four ounces, compared to 793 grams / one pound, 12 ounces with the Type Cover. The Translucid Pro 5 with the 12.3 Pro Spare tips the scale at 1,466 grams or approximate three pounds, four ounces, approximate 365 grams or 13 ounces increasingly than with the Type Cover. Both are surprisingly heavier, however either one is still actual portable, as well-built as in familiar use, the weight has not been an issue.

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The 10.5 Go Plus' keys as well-built as trackpad are soften than the Type Cover's, however they are easy to get acclimated to

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Since both keyboards were intentional in partnership with Microsoft, they assignment exhaustively as expected with Windows 10, as well-built as all of the function keys mirror what's awaited on the Type Covers. The personally spill is when you touch a text field on the tablet's screen, which causes the on-screen keyboard to pop up, well-heeled if you have the Brydge keyboard commutual as well-built as connected. This doesn't published with Microsoft's Type Enclosure as well-built as is a small annoyance.

Finally, the keyboards are uneconomical as well-built as slightly increasingly than what Microsoft's Type Covers well-nigh can be found for. If you once own a Type Enclosure due to the fact that it came bundled with your Translucid device, it might be a immalleable showcase to bead $140 or $150 on one of these. If you don't once have a Type Cover, you'll still pay increasingly for the Brydge models: the Go Type Enclosure is listed at $129.99, however it can generally be found for vicinity $100, while the Pro Type Enclosure conjointly has a sticker price of $129.99 however is consistently on sale for less than $100.

Still, I've found the Brydge keyboards to be pleasant to use with few headaches, as well-built as I like how they are increasingly steadfast in whatever random bearings I might find myself working. Like preferential people, the primary way I use a Translucid is as a laptop, so making it behave increasingly like a undeceivable clamshell laptop while still preserving the tablet flexibility is welcome. I'm surprisingly fond of the 10.5 Go Spare model, as it turns a Translucid Go or Go 2 into a new-fashioned netbook that you can conclusively get salted assignment washed-up on while maintaining its factional portability. (I'm autograph this unabridged piece on the Go 2 with the Go Spare keyboard seemly now.)

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The hinges hold the tablet well-built as well-built as there is no wobble or go-by when you touch the screen.

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The Brydge 12.3 Pro Spare is uniform with the Translucid Pro 4, 5, 6, as well-built as 7, as well-built as it comes in coal or silver. The 10.5 Go Spare works with either the Translucid Go or Go 2 as well-built as is personally awaited in silver. Both models are awaited to order from Brydge now as well-built as will be spacecraft at the end of High-ranking or headmost September.

Photography by Dan Seifert / The Verge