Customer Reviews and Ratings

3.0 out of 5 stars

Based on 35 reviews

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Vowels?

    • Written by from Portland

    6 of 7 people found this useful

    After some use the vowels stopped working. Bad buy

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    dissappointing !!!

    • Written by from Edmonton

    56 of 59 people found this useful

    Got keyboard connected to ipad no problem, problem occurred when i went to actually use this garbage, the Q,W,E,R,U,I,O & P keys do not work.
    Wish I had read other reviews before buying this piece of equipment/paper weight.

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    It's awful. It's cheap. Vowels did not work!

    • Written by from DACULA

    46 of 52 people found this useful

    For 100.00 bucks it is a sin! Do not waste your money! I would give it 0 stars if I could have.

    Was this useful? It's awful. It's cheap. Vowels did not work!

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  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Do not buy!

    • Written by from Quincy

    18 of 19 people found this useful

    I bought this exact model of keyboard in black for $30. And 30 is about what it's worth. It gets the job done and is small enough to be easily portable. However, it shuts itself off after about 30 seconds of inactivity, a timer which can not be changed, and to reactivate it you have to power the device off then on again after a second or two delay: it was very minor at first, but it grows to be absurdly frustrating.

    Aside from that the keyboard does work and the keys are a good size. But seriously - its NOT Worth $100!

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Do Not Buy!

    • Written by from Columbia

    18 of 19 people found this useful

    This is a terrible product. It's manufactured cheaply, with plastic rattling everywhere. Very uncomfortable. You can actually thumb faster on your iPhone that type on this piece of junk. My particular unit was especially bad because it had trouble getting the power to turn on. Mercifully, the third time I tried to turn it on (months after I first used it, because I hated it so much but needed a wireless keyboard and my good one from Apple was elsewhere) it was simply dead. Hallelujah. I threw it in the trash, where it felt right at home.

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Terrible

    • Written by from Helena

    18 of 20 people found this useful

    DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT. I had high hopes for this product but it was cheaply made, did not last long at all and wasn't even reliable when it did work, which was not very often. If I could give this product a .025 star rating I would. The only good thing about it is that it folds in half and is very small, but considering it doesn't work, none of the other factors do you much good...

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    cheaply made/poor design

    • Written by from Olathe

    35 of 39 people found this useful

    This keyboard is the sloppiest, cheapest product I've seen in a long time. Bad design, doesn't even close when it folds, keys are odd shapes and not at all consistent. This is the poorest product I've purchased in at least 10 years.

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Not happy at all

    • Written by from Jacksonville

    19 of 23 people found this useful

    Just didn't work when I turned to on or anything!
    Light flashed that was the end of that
    Would not pair with 3 different iPhone 4's
    and it was undiscoverable.
    I wish it did work out. I needed a small portable keyboard...just one that works!

    Apple graciously is sending me their own keyboard. Now I just have to get a case

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Don't try to get a part

    • Written by from Weimar

    23 of 31 people found this useful

    "Back in the day" I had a Palm PDA and a keyboard that was wonderful.
    The HippiH keyboard works fairly well except for the lower left hand (the pinkey finger area). There is a small shift key right next to 3 arrow keys - you can imagine the mischief that happens there.
    Also I tried to get a "foot" (small rubber item that raises the plastic keyboard above whatever it is sitting on for a smoother, softer contact) because I lost it.
    HippiH's website is being repaird (for the past 2 weeks) and "peter" doesn't answer emails (and I don't want to phone Denmark).
    Apple won't help because it is a third party item.

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Lasted only one month

    • Written by from Walla Walla

    19 of 24 people found this useful

    I bought this keyboard for traveling with my ipad. On my very first trip, some of the keys stopped working. I had it in my carryon.
    I had tried the keyboard before I left, and it was working fine. This was the second one that Apple sent me. The first one didn't even sync. I should have figured it out then.

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Not as expected...

    • Written by from Portsmouth

    12 of 13 people found this useful

    After trying a friend's iEagle and liking it, I ordered my own. I unpacked it, carefully followed the steps for paring the device to my IPad and it worked beautifully--but I could never get it to work again. I kept getting an error message to "make sure the device is turned on and within range," both of which it was. As others have noted, the construction is somewhat primitive; the locking mechanism, for example, is very difficult to move. I'm nervous about trying a replacement and may opt for the standard Apple wireless version.

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Won't synch

    • Written by from Wilmington

    15 of 15 people found this useful

    Conveniently compact, but it won't synch with my iPhone.

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Very Disappointed!

    • Written by from Nashville

    14 of 19 people found this useful

    After receiving the Brookstone wireless keyboard built into a leather iPad case as a gift from my daughter for Christmas, with her blessing, I decided to try out this folding keyboard because of its smaller size before making a commitment. I love the lightweight portability of my iPad and the Brookstone keyboard added considerable weight and heft. Unfortunately, the Apple keyboard was a complete failure. I eagerly took it out of the box, but then struggled for over five minutes to get the battery compartment open. While struggling to do this, one of the little (and I mean LITTLE) white rubber feet on the bottom of the keyboard kept falling off. I could not get the locking latch to slide even a micrometer. And my iPad never could "find" the keyboard to sync. Just kept saying, "connection unsuccessful". I finally gave up and decided to retry the Brookstone. it synced almost instantly with no problems at all. I do NOT recommend the folding Apple keyboard and will be returning it tomorrow.