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I gotta talk about some of the issues I have with this thing, and while I have plenty of praises for this thing, there are some annoying things that need to be talked about for potential buyers.
- The AirFeet - I think it's a cool idea to have little magnetic feet as a way to save space but this is a low profile keyboard, ostensibly meant for carrying around. Yes, it's the perfect size to for me to take between home and the office, and occasionally into a cafe. But that just mean an extra little set of things to carry. And with no way to store them with or in the keyboard, they're just begging to get lost. I've already lost one in the year I've had it and I hate that I just can't buy one off their website. What gives? With a competitor like the keychron, they have build in legs, so this would never even be a consideration with them.
- the rubber padding is using some terrible glue- I feel this is a trend with Chinese premium niche products: I also own an Ambernic handheld gaming device with the same issue. After a couple of months use, the little rubber on the bottom of both devices begin to slide off as the adhesive loses its grip. With the Ambernic I easily fixed it with some Double-sided tape. Couldn't do the same with my Nuphy. I just pulled them off to not deal with it. Yes, I realize i could have gotten my own adhesive for a fix, but why does anyone have to do it for a $100 product?
- The software and documentation - Just not a consumer-friendly experience. There're some basic instructions in the box, but no actual user manual. There's a "quick guide" available through their discord, but it's very bare bones. The right software to get seems to be a moving target too as certain features can only be used with an update, but I could not with confidence tell you what to download without half an hour of cursory googling. I thought the Nuphy Console would be a onestop shop, but I can't even get it running properly on my machine. While I haven't experienced this myself, from browsing reddit it looks like some users have seriously borked their keyboards with a bad update. If us technically competent users have trouble with this, I can't imagine the frustration of a more typical user who just wants to figure out how engage the FN lock. The lack of a centralized easy to access source of information just baffles me.
- Why have a smart assistant button?- I don't know how many users out there really care about cortana/siri. Maybe there's a handful of people out there that really like voice assistants. But I imagine they already have button-less voice activation. So then who is this for? I wouldn't be so annoyed by it if I could remap the key. If there is a way, I wouldn't reliably know anyway because of issue 4. So, I just have permanently never used key on this thing. just annoying
- The folio "stand"- It's a nice case for the keyboard, but kind of a terrible stand. There's very little proping up the tablet and is really super flimsy if you plan on using it like that. Better just get a case that can stand up on its own and use the Air75 alongside that.
You may read this and think I hate my air75, but that also isn't quite true. I'm just airing out my grievances, which stand in stark contrast to how much I really like my NuPhy. Its super low profile makes it ideal for lugging around work and home, it's aesthetically pleasing, and infinitely more enjoyable to type on vs whatever standard keyboard you'll get at work. I have the brown switches on mine for a happy medium between all the writing and gaming I do in my life. The RGB lighting is a little hard to see but is definitely pretty in my dimly lit room. This happens to be my first mechanical keyboard. I don't know what the competition is like, so I don't really have a point of comparison, so I can't really say if you should get a Keychron or an MX mini vs this guy.
Hopefully whoever reads this finds this useful in their purchasing decision. I hope even more that the company reads this feedback as constructive and addresses these complaints in future updates or products.
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