Synopsis:
1 - Introduction
2 - Design
3 - Keys
4 - Functions: tactile orders
5 - Functions: other orders, pilot
6 - Performances and the Bluetooth connection
7 - Conclusion
1. Introduction
The Logitech range was for the time being dominated by the only sets of office. With its diNovo Edge, the Swiss firm launches its first keyboard wireless telegraphy sold separately, without being delivered with a mouse. What however has so particular this keyboard to deserve such honors?
2. Design
The diNovo Edge is before all a superb part intended to as it should be decorate more high-tech offices. It proposes a design with the very tended lines and the undeniable success, which will certainly charm the lit amateurs, but also all one each one. The eyes are irremediably attracted by this object on the brilliant plexiglass surface made up. This mirror effect associated with puts back wrist not out of plastic but out of superbly brushed aluminium give him a seal without similar.
In addition, Edge is very fine with only a little more than one centimetre thickness and is of course deprived of telegraphic connection, since it uses Bluetooth technology. It is thus distinguished immediately from its traditional counterparts, even those with the most required designs. Even its towards, of one surprising orange and without any artifice, seems to have to dissociate itself.
But no description could return justice without mentioning to him its partial retro-lighting. This one, it also orange, come to illuminate the whole of the auxiliary controls of the keyboard during their activation, quasi-invisible in normal time. In short, the diNovo Edge is a true work of art, and one of the most successful keyboards aesthetically ever marketed.
Like considerable works of art, it should however sometimes be interdict to touch it: each contact on brilliant surface leaves disgracieuses traces. It is thus not in vain that the keyboard is delivered with a siglé black rag of its name!
3. Keys
Like its predecessors of the series diNovo, Edge is equipped with keys with low profile. Contrary to those, these keys are however not truly keys of portable computer: they are indeed well too resistant to be able to correspond to this name.
Actually, from a point of view of the touch, those appear completely disappointing to us. Whereas the preceding keyboards diNovo were true wonders of comfort, the increased resistance of these keys to dome saps all the efforts made until now in this field. The pressure which it is necessary to exert on them appears well too important us within the framework of a calm use. On the other hand, that they are adapted to an intensive ludic use thanks to a good reactivity, but is this concedes really the goal of this keyboard?
The very resistant rubber domes employed for the mechanics of Edge have however as a merit to offer to its keys an extremely deaf sonority, making them particularly discrete.
Remainder, the keys adopt a traditional provision, but one heavily deplores the absence of numeric keypad, which one does not even find not off-set on a second element as it was the case with the preceding diNovo. Were also sacrificed, the block of 3 X 2 keys theoretically located above the directional keys which adopts a different provision, as well as the diodes announcing the activation of various lockings… and due, only locking capital letter still remains! Its activation and its desactivation are actually announced by small a beeper, emitting sounds of two different tonalities.
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