As a $99 accessory, I had high expectations for the Keyboard Moto Mod, but I was thoroughly disappointed. The slider action is smooth though stiff, and given its width it exhibits a
fair amount of wobble in the mechanism. And because this is a landscape-oriented keyboard meant for a large phone, it's not designed with any sort of handheld use in mind —
you're supposed to tilt the phone up after sliding it out and stick it on a hard surface to type.
Adding to the pain is the weakness of the magnets that hold the Keyboard Moto Mod to the phone.
About half of the times I tried to open the keyboard I instead detached the phone. Thankfully the Moto Mod system is designed with the magnets in the mod itself, so these could (and should) be upgraded before the release sometime near the first few months of 2018.
Once you've successfully slid it open and positioned the phone upright at the 60-degree angle (any less of an angle and the weight of the phone will tip the whole thing back), then you can type. Except the keyboard is so short and the
key travel so shallow and mushy with near zero tactile feedback that you'll immediately regret that decision. Daniel Bader described the feel as similar to
the original Motorola Droid, and I'm inclined to agree. With how far design and manufacturing has advanced since 2009, it's just not an acceptable typing experience.
You might've noticed that this keyboard which slides over the back of your phone doesn't have a hole in it (as you'd expect for a keyboard). Problem is... the camera's on the back of the phone. So if you want to take pictures, you'll have to slide the keyboard out. Honestly, if you want a keyboard phone,
get a BlackBerry KEYone.
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