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tl; dr: The Kensington Keyfolio Pro 2 Universal has a great keyboard, which is easy to touch type on, but the case adds a lot of bulk to the Nexus 10, and is a bit floppy.

This review is going to be similar in vein to the Jalopnik "will it baby?" car reviews. After the arrival of our (human) baby recently, I was looking for a device which I could use to entertain myself and perhaps do (very) light work on while holding the baby. My usual 15" 1920x1080 laptop is great, but is just not manageable with one hand, particularly when the other is holding a squirming infant. I narrowed my choices down to either the Nexus 10 or an 11" chromebook. I decided to get the Nexus 10, mostly because of the existing base of Android apps.

I'm a Unix system administrator so I live at the command line. Hacker's Keyboard with prediction disabled and just the right amount of haptic feedback makes the Nexus 10 a barely good enough ssh terminal. I found that I could carry the Nexus 10 around, but when I had to do some kind of command line thing on a server that I was waiting until I could get back to my laptop, which defeated the purpose of buying a new device. So, I decided I needed a bluetooth keyboard case.

Reading the forum here and other reviews, it became clear that the same keyboard used in very similar cases by Poetic, MoKo, and others was not that good. I already have a difficult to type on bluetooth keyboard by Azio. There is also the snap-on style keyboard by MiniSuit and others, which is its own case, and the tablet is supported in a groove. That also gets mediocre reviews. To me, it appears to perhaps be a quality issue, in that some people say it holds their tablet securely and works well, while others say that they tablet is loose. Re: the squirmy infant, I need something that holds the tablet well enough that a wayward foot won't cause adult crying.

I settled on the Kensington Keyfolio Pro 2 Universal. Mostly because I could get it locally from Walmart for $60 (using site-to-store, because it's $90 in store, but $60 online). Then, if I didn't like it I could easily return it, and still be testing it in the return window for the Nexus 10 itself.

The keyboard is the best part of this case. It has smaller than standard chiclet style keys, but is very easy to touch type on. The keys are pretty much all in the standard places. No page-up/page-down or home/end, but arrows, ctrl, alt, and some Android specific keys are there. With no special apps to handle a hardware keyboard the special keys for home, back, search, menu, volume+, volume-, and contacts all work perfectly. The keys for email, web, music, and mute do not work. The gap between the keys is just large enough for me to not hit multiple keys by accident, which was my biggest complaint about the Azio keyboard. One handed typing (in my case the other hand is baby managing) is as passable as can be expected for somebody who is a quick touch typist. The keyboard being small actually helps, and the hard keys are easier to use than on screen ones.

The keyboard works great in VX ConnectBot while ssh-ed to a Unix server. Control, Alt (meta), Escape, and the arrow keys all work as expected once I enabled the hardware keyboard option in VX ConnectBot. Running emacs in an ssh session is a total non-issue, and works perfectly.

The case is the low point of this setup. It's not terrible, but isn't everything I could want. The keyboard is removable and attaches by magnets into the case. It is very secure, and doesn't easily pop out, which is something I was worried about. Unfortunately with the strong keyboard magnets, there is no magnet to sleep the Nexus 10. Perhaps when I get a chance I'll pull apart an old hard disk and put a magnet in the right spot.

The Nexus 10 is held in by velcro backed rubber pieces which hold the corners. It was a bit fiddly to get the Nexus 10 installed, and if you're OCD you'll spend lots of time getting it centered and straight. I didn't really care, so it's just stuck in there. In the baby related upsetting of the case and tablet, it's not fallen out. One of the rubber pieces does cover the sleep/wake/power button in the corner. It can still be activated by pressing the rubber piece itself. The volume rocker is unobstructed. Fortunately, once the keyboard is paired, pressing any key will wake the tablet. If left on, the keyboard will go to sleep, so the first keypress will wake the keyboard, and the second will wake the tablet.

When closed, the case is about 1.5" thick, and total weight is 2.66 pounds. The rubber corner pieces seem to keep the keys from hitting the screen.

There is an elastic strap to keep it closed. I won't worry about sticking it in my motorcycle luggage when I'm back at work.

The case is lapable. It's floppy, so your lap will have to be somewhat level, because if it tilts too far back, the Nexus 10 will fall backwards. There is velcro at the bottom edge of the Nexus 10 vertical which holds it to the horizontal piece of the case. Where you attach it allows a bit of adjustment of the viewing angle. The screen on the Nexus 10 is so good, that a few degrees of difference doesn't matter for viewing. The hold is not strong enough to allow great one handed moving of the case in the open position. It will flop into a completely horizontal position, and will pop back upright when set on a solid surface.

In summary, will it baby? The case can hold the tablet in a reading position next to me on the couch while both hands are involved with the baby. It is easy to type on with both hands. When one hand is available, it can be moved to my left or right with some flopping and adjustment.