Review: As close to a laptop as a Kindle Fire HDX can get
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2014
Which is to say, not very.  That's not darning with faint praise either, just an admission of the reality that you have to choose what you want, and that with any computing device there is tradeoffs.  I'm typing this review on my desktop, because it would be a bit cumbersome with the QODE and the kindle.  On the other hand, sending an email with the QODE is heaven, as opposed to using the on-screen keyboard on my device.  Heck, I'm a touch typist, and absolutely anything short of a full-sized keyboard is a distant second best, for me.This isn't as protective as my belovedOtterBox Defender Standing Case for Kindle Fire HDX 7", Green, but any comparison here is apples and oranges.  If I'm going to be out and about with the kindle all week, and I don't anticipate doing a lot of typing, back in the otterbox it is.  Inside the house, however, I find myself leaving it in the QODE more and more frequently.  I have anAmazon Kindle Fire HDX Standing Leather Origami Case (will only fit Kindle Fire HDX 7"), Blackwhich I love (for it's looks and craftsmanship), but it's languishing in a drawer along with another Belkin case I had the opportunity to evaluate for Vine.  If I can't have Fort Knox protection against breakage, I want the keyboard, and vice versa.Charging is easy, and while documentation for this product is wholly inadequate, both as included with the product and online, bluetooth pairing for bluetooth novice me was still a snap.  I hate where they've put some of the lesser used symbols (function - "O" for an apostrophe, really?) and believe that Belkin could have come up with a better design here, but there would always have to be a tradeoff.  Even with my relatively slender fingers, I'm grateful that the keys are as big as they are, while still fitting within the parameters of a smaller kindle case.  (What point would there be to a smaller screen, if you had to lug a huge case?)  Yes, the case is almost as bulky as my Otterbox, but to my mind it's fairly impressive that it is ONLY that bulky.)Recommended without hesitation...to those who have carefully researched the choices and tradeoffs, and know what matters most for their own personal use.