Review: Small keyboard but works well (4 stars)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2013
I love my Kindle Fire. There I said it. I love it unreasonably. I take it with me everywhere and am often found reading while standing in line at the movies, grocery store, and at the post office during the holiday seasons.The only problem I had with my Fire was the charging issue and how hard it was to type on it just using the touch screen. I am sure many of you had this same issue that sometimes the screen wouldn't register a touch at all, nothing you typed would show up, the slowness of the pecking at one letter at time on the Kindle keyboard, or it would just delete everything you spent minutes typing up.Due to that I primarily use my Kindle to read books, play games, and watch movies and television shows. Any typing related tasks I just did on my phone, laptop, and in one case on one of my colleagues IPAD (I felt dirty afterwards...) to shoot back a quick email.With this new keyboard I finally am able to type and not have to deal with the slowness of my typing on the Kindle or it getting stuck on a screen. It was very easy to set up the keyboard using BlueTooth. If you are not familiar with BlueTooth (though I imagine many of us are in this day and age) you have to have the keyboard and Kindle Synch up to one another (it took mine seconds) and then pair them so afterwards your keyboard and Kindle will just "talk" to each other.Though the keyboard is a bit small it still gets the job done. I don't think you would want a bigger keyboard then this since I take my Kindle on travel with me and the keyboard was small enough when folder to easily fit in my purse with no issues. I think something bigger would end up having to get stuck in a bigger luggage item and I wouldn't have it so readily available for use. I like the cover on it and the fact you can tuck your Kindle in and keep it closed while traveling as well. I was able to listen to music while on a train recently and also type up an email at the same time which was so nice.However, I will say the keyboard keys themselves were too small and that should be fixed or at least focused on for the next iteration of this keyboard. I don't think I have fat fingers but a couple of times i just missed keys entirely and it took me a few seconds of going back and deleting to re-type words. I type about 75 words a minute usually but on this keyboard I think I got down to around 40-50 words a minute which to me felt so slow.