Logitech Wave Keys: Comfortable little wireless keyboard

Price When Reviewed

$59.99

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Logitech is likely one of the most prolific producers of keyboards, with the whole lot from skinny luxurious keyboards to high-end gaming fashions. And a number of designs which might be supposedly constructed with ergonomics in thoughts. The new Wave Keys is considered one of them. It is offered below the slogan “Familiar typing experience. Just more comfortable” and is meant to supply a superb ergonomic working place with out being considerably completely different from an everyday keyboard.

Constructed from sturdy matte plastic, with tender membrane switches and solidly constructed keys with a half-centimeter stroke peak, it’s a variation on the traditional typewriter keyboard, however with tender valleys and peaks back and forth, and an upward curve in direction of the perimeters. The switches and a well-damped chassis imply that there’s no unnecessarily loud clicking of buttons or common mechanical rattling. I wouldn’t name it quiet, however there are much more environment friendly keyboards for driving your workplace neighbors loopy.

The Wave Keys is wi-fi and powered by two AAA batteries which might be mentioned to final three years. Since it doesn’t have backlit keys, Bluteooth, or RF communication it hardly attracts any power in any respect. Of course, I can’t say for positive after every week of testing, however the battery indicator I’ve entry to within the Logi Optios+ management program hasn’t moved.

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One keyboard for 3 gadgets

You get a Logi Bolt-type USB adapter you could plug into your laptop, in any other case Bluetooth is okay. Three buttons on the high are reserved for switching between as much as three related computer systems in a perform known as Easy Switch. You can have a desktop laptop and a laptop computer and a pill utilizing the identical keyboard with out having to re-pair each time you need to swap. Just press a button and go. It’s seamless.

A row of perform keys on the high accommodate specialised features comparable to window administration, microphone mute button, media participant management, and emoji hotkey. With the Logi Options+ software program put in, you may as well reprogram the highest keys to carry out another instructions. F1 to F12 can at all times be accessed with the Fn key mixture. The software program is accessible for Windows and Mac OS, however the keyboard and Easy Switch additionally works nice for Chrome OS, Android, iOS, and iPad OS.

Wave Keys doesn’t have a tough division for various palms, and the marginally wavy design that gave rise to the identify doesn’t require you to sort with excellent fingering. It’s meant to information you to a pure working place, with its tender peaks and valleys and barely curved key format.

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Guide to the precise place

For those that have the precise fingering when typing, it implies that you get a centered place of the palms with the precise angle of the arm joints. A large wrist relaxation is mounted below the keyboard and supplies a agency and comfy place to relaxation your forearms.

Not being typewriter educated myself, my fingers fly throughout a keyboard as I sort, typically reaching nicely over the middle of the keyboard with my index fingers. That too could be accomplished with Wave Keys, and over time, a form like this makes me begin placing my palms extra “right” as nicely.

However, I discover myself staring down on the keys an increasing number of typically to verify I get it proper. Not solely out of behavior with the format, but in addition for one more cause, the buttons on the keyboard are surprisingly small. If you’re used to a full-sized desktop keyboard, or perhaps a normal-sized laptop computer, the keys are annoyingly shut collectively. However, there’s clear spacing between particular person keys, so an indirect press is felt straight within the fingertip. Some particular person keys have additionally been shrunk all the way down to the same old dimension to make room, such because the Shift key on the left aspect.

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Partially crowded

The complete keyboard is unusually compact. You get a numeric keypad on the aspect, but it surely sits near the principle keyboard, like on some laptops. This implies that keys comparable to Insert, Delete, Home End, and Page up and Page down have been moved round and squeezed in above the quantity keys on the aspect or the row of perform keys.

The arrow keys are additionally awkwardly squeezed below the precise Shift button. Awkwardly small and tougher to achieve than on a full-sized keyboard. Is there a cause for this? Maybe the concept is that you simply shouldn’t have to achieve up to now to the aspect to seize the pc mouse. But that’s not likely clear. I take advantage of them extensively in my writing occupation, and having the ability to navigate paperwork, tables, and spreadsheets is important for me, so it’s irritating that the principle software appears to have been squeezed in as an afterthought.

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But it’s a matter of style, and you will get used to something. The remainder of the keyboard turns into fast and pure to make use of after a couple of days of irritation, however the arrow keys are one thing I can’t appear to recover from. I’ll be switching again to the modern and splendid Logitech MX Keys for me. But however, it prices considerably extra. For $60, the Wave Keys is an efficient purchase, in case you are conscious of the potential disadvantages.

Specifications

Product identify: Logitech Wave Keys
Tested: October 2023
Manufacturer: Logitech
Connection: Bluetooth, 2.4GHzRF
Batteries: 2pcs AAA
Function: Qwerty, ergonomic design
Button sort: High profile, membrane
Number of buttons: 100
Other: Adjustable keyboard, numeric keypad, programmable perform keys, gadget swap
Size: 37.6 x 21.9 x 3.05 cm
Weight: 696 g

This assessment was translated from Swedish to English and initially appeared on pcforalla.se.