Review: Either my keyboard or its operation was defective
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2014
The case itself is nice enough. It's sturdy if rather plain and unattractive. I didn't particularly like the "feel" of the case's material.I had no trouble pairing the keyboard, although it wasn't straightforward. Open the Bluetooth settings on your Fire, then turn on the keyboard, and press the "Pair" button on the upper right of the keyboard. I think I used the function key or alt key to activate it. I'm not sure as I tried both. When you see the keyboard pop up at the bottom of your settings screen, tap that line to complete pairing.The big problem for me was the keyboard operation. I was unable to complete any sentence without the keyboard mysteriously repositioning the cursor back to the beginning or middle of the line of text. Therefore my normal test of "This is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country" inevitably become something like "good men toThis is the time for", whereupon I'd notice the error and stop.I first supposed that due to the small nature of the keyboard compared to my fingers, I might be hitting some key that returned the keyboard to start of line. So I tried, several times, carefully typing the keys "hunt and peck" style instead of "touch type" style. The very same thing happened. The odd thing is that it did not always return to the start of the line. At times it would return to some spot in the middle of the line of text.Another problem is that the keyboard is not a standard QWERTY keyboard. The "Enter" key is where the semi-colon and apostrophe keys should be, along with a few other differences certain to frustrate touch typists.Given this problem with the keyboard operation, combined with my lukewarm opinion of the case itself, I won't be using this case with my 7" Fire HD.