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The keys on the diNovo Edge are flat laptop style keys with a very short downstroke, so the touch is very light. And despite its size, the keyboard is without a number pad, which is a bit of a disappointment, but in its place, you get a cursor touchpad for mouse control, and a touchpad slider for volume control that looks and feels like it come out of Star Trek. Both these touchpads light up in a very cool way when you use them. Above the volume control touchpad you have a Media Player launch button, which can launch any media or DVD player you tell it to.
The cursor touchpad also includes sections for horizontal and vertical scrolling, certainly much better looking than a scroll wheel included on some keyboards, but personally I still prefer a normal scroll wheel. The scrolling on the touchpad is imprecise and sometimes lags a bit before it realises what you want it to do. The cursor movement however is excellent, easily as good as any laptop touchpad for speed, ease and accuracy, with the normal tap-to-click option included as well. The left and right mouse buttons are located just below the cursor touchpad.
Battery life with the diNovo Edge is unlikely to be a problem, I got it out of the box today with about 70% charge, turned it on and off (via a physical switch on the keyboard) more times than I can count, played with everything that lights up for hours for the photos, and have even been typing this review on it, and it’s still saying I have 34 days of ‘normal use’ left, seems like you’d only have to put the keyboard back in the charger every couple of months! One point to note is that when I was turning it on and off to get it to light up (see pic below), it never needed to be re-synced with the PC, and it always worked straight away.
There are more features on the left hand side of the keyboard, including zoom controls, which work with everything from Office and Internet Explorer to Photoshop, a sleep/standby button and another left-click mouse button. This additional left-click button comes in handy when using the keyboard on your lap, one thumb using the cursor touchpad, and the other doing the clicking, very cool inclusion.
