1byone Bluetooth Keyboard with Touchpad Review

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Rating: 4/5


What I Like: 

  • Solid build quality
  • Excellent keyboard feel, with springy key response
  • Properly positioned and sized right-shift key
  • Smooth trackpad feel and good button response
  • Supports multi-touch gestures for scroll and zoom
  • Trackpad is located to the right of the keyboard

What I Don’t Like:

  • Trackpad is occasionally jittery
  • ESC key requires hitting FN before use
  • Some shortcut key combos don’t work
  • Metallic back picks up a ton of fingerprints

Summary:  This keyboard is one of the better feeling (non-mechanical) keyboards I own, with fast and accurate key response. It is similar to a high end laptop keyboard, with a slightly smaller than average key layout and springy feedback. I can type significantly faster with this keyboard then I can with the other wireless keyboards I own due to the response of the keys. The built-in trackpad feels similar quality, but it isn’t as responsive to touch as I’d like. I find that occasionally it lags and jitters, causing it to sense one finger as two or causing the mouse to jump across the screen. Other than the occasional delay, this keyboard and mouse combo works quite well, and is a nice accessory for Bluetooth enabled android TV boxes, desktop computers and most smartphones.


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1byone Portable Car Jumpstarter Review

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Rating: 5/5


Pros: 

  • Can start a car many times without needing to be recharged
  • Bright light for emergencies
  • High-speed (2.1A) charging for mobile phones
  • Excellent build quality
  • Includes a plastic case

Cons:

  • A USB hub is needed to charge multiple USB devices at once

Conclusion:  The 1byone portable car jumpstarter is something I keep in my car for peace of mind. It’s saved me on multiple occasions now as I was having battery troubles with my vehicle (it turned out one of the battery poles had cracked and now that it is replaced the car is fine again). It has the capability to jumpstart most vehicles many times – after the engine is started, it will recharge itself. I’ve had it in my car for a year now and I haven’t had to take it out and recharge it, and it’s worked every time I’ve needed it. The build quality is good and the case it includes is nice too. It’s great to have the USB port for emergency phone power too, but I wish there was two ports. Often I find myself needing to charge two devices at once. Overall, I would highly recommend keeping a jumpstarter kit in the car, and this has done the trick for me.
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1 by One Magic Plasma Bluetooth Speaker Review

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Rating: 4/5


Pros: 

  • Really cool lighting effect
  • Vibrant and colourful
  • Decent sound quality
  • Many audio inputs

Cons:

  • No built in battery
  • Annoying Bluetooth ‘connect’ and ‘power on’ noises

Conclusion:  The 1 by One Magic Plasma Bluetooth speaker is an excellent novelty product and would make a great gift. The audio quality is pretty good, considering the price, and its plasma light show is really cool. I just wish it had a built in battery.


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