Review: Doqo Adds a Keyboard, Trackpad, USB-C Hub, & Battery to Your iPad Pro By AppleInsider

The doggo, smart dock is yet another iPad Pro case attempting to emulate a MacBook welcome everyone. It is Andrew here from Apple Insider, and we have seen a few different keyboard cases folios that attempt to turn an iPad Pro into a MacBook, but none have come as close as the smart dock from doggo. Now it started off as a crowdfunding solution, and this is kind of an early phase prototype model. So things don't completely. Work like the internal battery is not really there, but it does so much else. It gives us our best idea of what this product would look like when it finally does ship now.

What makes us different from others like Bridge? Is it's combining about four different things, a case for your iPad, a keyboard for your iPad, a trackpad for your iPad and a docking / hub? So your iPad goes into the back panel here and connects over this USB cable. Now that is a braided now on cord, which is very nice because it can be moving around a lot as you take your iPad in and out over, all your iPad goes in and out quite easily, in fact, sometimes a little too easily, especially on the top left-hand corner. We noted that it popped out just a couple of times as we were opening and closing below is a keyboard. Has everything that you'd expect to see on the keyboard itself, the top left-hand corner of the battery status lights, letting you know how much battery life is in there you a full keyboard set here, it's a little smaller than full sides, it feels likes and, as I was actually typing on it, I was kind of running into the caps lock or the enter keys on the sides, where I normally wouldn't do that on a regular sized keyboard. So it was taking a little of time to get adjusted to the keyboard size of the Yoko, smart dock.

Then, of course below we have a large trackpad. It is not as large as Apple's, but there is a big difference that was just a pain for us, and that is a normal diving board style trackpad, as in the top third, here, it's kind of stuck in place, and then the bottom part here is where you can actually press down to click. They don't have to click. You can just tap on it. So tapping does work, but if you're trying to actually click down the whole time, it was a little of noxious now.

This does act as a hub. On the right-hand side, you can micro SD card slot, an SD card slot into of USB 8 ports. On the left time you have the USB CPD port, which will also do power in and charge your iPad at 12 watts HDMI, which can do a 4k monitor, and we have a USB-C port for data. Now this is what we're coming from here. We're using our iPad Pro 12 point 9 inches, and we're using it inside of Apple's.

Smart keyboard. Folio you've obviously had the keyboard there. You have two different options for propping it up. It'll cover your iPad screen as well as the back, but otherwise doesn't offer a lot of protection. So there's no protection around the edges or the corners of the iPad, which, if you're really caring about protection, could be a big problem with Apple's keyboard.

Folio, smart keyboard, folio vs. other solutions that are out there, so doggo actually is projecting or protecting the entire iPad, because there is literally coverage on all sides back the screen. The corners of this thing you can see the giant bezels that exist around the left and the right sides of the iPad. So there really is a lot of protection going on in the iPad, but it also as quite a bit of bulk, will come to back to that bulk aspect. In just a moment now the iPad Pro and iPadOS have come a long way in terms of productivity.

I've had a West has a ton of new features, including support for using a mouse with your trackpad or iPad, and the keyboard support has also gotten better over the years. So there's a ton of hotkeys, you can use there's a whole row of function keys at the top. The keyboard here is very functional. It works well, but it isn't as nice as some of the other keyboard you've tried, I kind of prefer taking on Apple's own smart keyboard folio. Even the bridge feels more solid than this.

This just feels a little squishy when typing on it just doesn't have the kind of tactile typing effect that I really like when I'm working with a keyboard. So the keyboard is not the best keyword refused by any means, and the amount of lately that you're seeing here is absolutely ridiculous when the lights are low, but it is definitely a passable keyboard and with everything else that you get in this one package, it's pretty damn impressive one thing I really like is that lockable you don't have to attach any other external dock like I can plug in my Samsung t7 Drive on the left-hand side and immediately have access inside the files app I can plug in SD and micro SD cards there. On the right hand, side I can attach any other USB accessories that I may have lying around, including additional storage devices. On that right hand, side, it even has 12 watts of pass through power. The trackpad itself, I, was very impressed with it was very smooth, very reliable, but it still is an accessibility feature.

You can scroll the two fingers you can tap on it. Where you can completely press the surface, you can assign a different effect to like long hold and everything, and it worked completely wired instead of over Bluetooth, because it plugs right into the side of the iPad doggo took everything else in against a duration that you'd expect to see on an iPad cover, including volume support on the rocker there, as well as the power button. Well, there's another odd kind of aspect, because it kind of closes hard, you're, closing it down it. Just kind of slams shut, so it'd be kind of gentle when you close this thing now, if we compare this to a MacBook Air, which is a very similar in terms of size and screen real estate, both are about 13 inches, and you can see here there's a huge difference. The iPad Pro with the Yoko cover is far larger, more kin to a 13-inch MacBook Pro than it is this MacBook Airs, if you're looking for the utmost portability, but you want that MacBook solution absolutely go with that.

MacBook Air, but on top of everything the iPad is more functional because you can take the iPad out and use it as a tablet. If you want to have all the protection built-in in has an entire hub dock aspect that the MacBook Air doesn't. So it just really depends on what you are going to go for here in terms of portability versus features and functionality, there's definitely a mix, and this gives at least everyone more of an option for what they're looking for. If you want to grab one follow the link down below in the description. Hey everyone: did you guys, like that video be sure to click on that like button, so we can create content that we know that you guys want to see and follow Apple Insider on all social media channels.

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