YEKBEE Case with Keyboard for iPad 9th Generation (10.2", 2021) | 360° | 7 Modes | Backlit | 12 Colors | Thin, Light & Protective for iPad 9, 8th & 7th Gen, Air 3, Pro 10.5 with Pencil Holder

Is your iPad screen size make it difficult to type on it with your thumbs like your phone? Use a keyboard! The iPad fits like a glove. The bluetooth connection is quick and stable. The keyboard is comfortable and well built. Multiple key lighting options are a treat. It's as close to a laptop you could ever get the iPad to be. Sent one to my sister as she is all about that iPad. I don't think she's taken it out of it since then.

So here's almost just what I wanted. It's almost perfect. It turns the ipad into a netbook. Hard case + keyboard = awesome. I love it. I highly recommend it. I will be showing it to my friends and guarantee I will absolutely drive future sales as I think this thing rocks. I do have some feature suggestions.I could care less about the pencil holder thing. It's clearly modelled after the MS Surface tablet as the stylus loop is pretty much exactly what my surface tablet has for its stylus that I never use. Meh. Big meh. I'm tempted to cut it off. Wish like on the surface you could have the option of sticking it on either side. The Surface stylus loop is a sticker, put it where you want. It makes NO sense for the pencil holder to be on the bottom instead of the top in portrait/tablet mode. Kinda dumb. Even in clamshell mode it is on the left when most people are right handed. Little product design advice.Next advice: This hinge is clearly modelled after the Lenovo Twist laptop, which I had. Now my daughter has. The hinge works the same way. This is super cool and I love it as it was one of my favorite laptops. Here's the hinge issue though. It can't fold all the way around to the other side. That would be super cool. Just needs a double cardan type hinge so it can fold on a second hinge and get the full flip under.Next product feature request/suggestion: It needs a touchpad so it feels more like a laptop. A small one would be fine, certainly enough room for one. It should also suggest turning on the advanced keyboard navigation features in the instructions because that option makes this keyboard even way cooler. Okay, that was two.Next feature request is to make this thing work more like the ASUS transformer, which it obviously also gets its design ideas from. The tablet/netbook design rocked. The transformer was a tablet with 8 hours of battery that clipped onto the keyboard dock... which had its own battery that could charge and prolong the life of the tablet for another 8 hours for a total of 16 hours of battery. Surely, you could come up with a wireless or wired charging design. This would fix another issue...The keyboard is too light. If it had the battery bank in it, it would increase keyboard weight so the thing doesn't fall over backwards when you tilt the screen too far back.Is USB-C too much to ask for? Seriously? Using micro-USB is so 10-20 years ago. Again, back to the battery bank idea, plugging in the keyboard to charge both keyboard battery bank and tablet is just a good design idea for the next gen product.If there was even a thin covering of a neoprene like rubber in the case to help absorb shock from drops, that would rock.And if the tablet could mount in either way left or right (for the lefties, not that I'm one of those weirdos :D) that would just be a solid design idea. I mean, what would it take, cut some more holes?Whoever designed this made the coolest ipad keyboard case I have seen so far. I love it. All the above isn't criticism in the slightest. Just suggestions. If you're reading this as a customer, just buy it. You'll love it. Those floppy soft keyboard cases suck. Can't use them on your lap without a lapdesk. This case makes it a mini laptop running iOS (sadly). It's dope. Pull the trigger and get it, people.Okay, suggestions out of the way. They keyboard, while a little small, is excellent to type on, and I am a larger dude with big clumsy fingers, yet I can touch-type on it great. It's quite good. The "Twist" mode stuff is exceptional, the hinge feels sturdy, the material is solid. It seems to have amazing battery life. It's almost exactly what I wanted. It fits the bill quite nicely. I got one for my son and after playing with it for an hour I knew I needed one for my ipad. I love it. Buy it.

Good quality and it's easy to work with...

UPDATE - After my post the seller reached out to me right away. He made things right and I am more than happy with the customer service received. Thank you. I purchased this keyboard case 6 months ago. The keys are already failing and not recognizing when I touch them. It is not a matter of charging . It’s fully charged. Case is faulty. Another thing I didn’t like was the letters are very hard to see in dim light because they are small and dont light up unless the backlight is on. I ended up wasting more money and buying stickers with bolder brighter letters. I will not purchase this case again.

Excellent product for this price point. Very durable and the rgb lights are a nice touch. Works great as a hard shell case too!

Getting a keyboard case for your Ipad is just like turning it into a little laptop, which is what I did. When I bought my Ipad i knew what i would be using it for so I bought everything needed to make it like a laptop. The case works great and still using it today. I would recomend the case to anyone looking for a keyboard case for their tablet.

Makes things look clean and protects very well .

I have purchased 3 Yekbee / Typepad keyboard cases for my iPads; one of them has a Trackpad / Touchpad. For several months they worked great. But I have since had some problems.The first disappointment is that the battery life (of a week or two) is very limiting and inconvenient.The keyboard key quality is ok. I can't touch type as fast on the keyboard as I can with a real keyboard, but I knew there would be some compromise for this price and small size. But the Logitech combo touch that I replaced this this has a far superior keyboard.A good trait of this case is that the hinge is strong and holds the iPad up well and seems to stands up to daily use. (But I only got to use it for less than 6 months)When the case is on a soft surface, or your lap, it will want to tip away from you. So you have to be careful how much you let it tip.... so be careful about taking your hands off of it when it’s prone to tipping.The case holds the iPad very tightly. Day to day this is excellent, because it means it keeps holding the iPad no matter what. I think it could hold up to a drop onto wood floor and protect the iPad decently. Definitely should be fine on carpet. But I haven't had any of mine drop to the floor, so I don't have actual experience with this aspect. The drawback to the iPad being held so tightly is that it's difficult to get the iPad out. So if you're someone who might have a need to take their iPad out of its case on the regular, this isn't the keyboard case for you.I have never taken the time to find out if there's a way to permanently stop the keyboard lights from color cycling. By default it puts on a light show and it's distracting and frustrating. I have to press the color button all the darn time to stop this annoyance.The Typepad case with the touchpad was the first to develop a problem. It kept triggering keys that I was not pressing. I made sure it was charged and I re-paired the Bluetooth connection to the iPad (removed it from the Bluetooth pairing list and then paired it again). I don't have time to deal with this. So I put it away and switched back to a Yekbee without the touchpad.This other case had sat unused for maybe 2 months and it would seem that it can't tolerate that. Because it won't hold a charge and only operates for a few seconds at a time. (If I keep typing, pretending that I dont' know that it's not working, it will type about half the words that I actually type on the keyboard.)This is ridiculous quality in both of these instances. I am writing this review December 2020. The one without touchpad was purchased March 2020. The touchpad one was purchased June 2020. The third Yekbee that I have was purchased May 2020 and is still working properly, thankfully. But having problems with 2 out of 3 of their products in about a 6-9 month span is not encouraging. For these reasons I can't recommend Yekbee / Typepad keyboard cases.