Cooper Nomad Travel Keyboard with Trackpad

This keyboard is lightweight and compact, making it easy to carry in a backpack or laptop bag. It features a built-in trackpad, which is a great addition for those who prefer not to carry a separate mouse. The keyboard offers both Bluetooth and USB connectivity options, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of devices, including tablets, smartphones, and laptops. Additionally, it boasts impressive battery life and sturdy build quality, providing good tactile feedback for comfortable typing. I use it both for my work laptop (MacBook) and personal (Windows).

However, there are a few drawbacks. The trackpad, while useful, is relatively small and may not be as comfortable to use for extended periods, especially for users with larger hands. The compact design means the keys are slightly smaller and closer together than a standard keyboard, which can take some getting used to and might not be suitable for long typing sessions. The keyboard is priced higher than some other portable keyboards on the market, which might be a consideration for budget-conscious buyers. Lastly, the lack of backlit keys can be a downside for those who often work in low-light environments. I will also have to say that all functions of the trackpad does work for MacBook (e.g., utilizing three finger swipe up for to navigating windows). Despite these issues, it’s a solid choice for travelers and remote workers needing a reliable and portable keyboard solution.

I’ve included a size reference pic. I’m a 5’1 woman.

This firstly and foremost is a nice keyboard to use. The buttons are slim, so obviously not going to be as responsive as a mechanical keyboard, as no slim keyboards are or could ever be, there just isn’t enough available travel. This however is high enough quality to be useable, the keypresses give a little pop, which adds to the feedback that the key has registered, which is handy for fast typers. The trackpad is functional but not a stand out feature. It just feels like a usual cheaper laptops pad, which in all fairness it probably is. But it works as you expect. Connecting is simple, as it connects via bluetooth and remains paired so each time you turn it on, it just works instantly. The casing is simple and perfectly adequate, with the keyboard making up the base and the stand folding to make the top cover. It’s quite a clever design.
My only downside to this is the lack of adjustment to the screen angle, but the set angle is ok. Just be aware you cannot adjust at all.
Overall I find this to be a pleasant product to use and as such I would recommend as the price seems reasonable too, this adds to my reason for the 5 stars. I’m fairly sure most people would find this ideal for travelling, as it’s slim and you can charge before travelling and use for many hours before it needs another charge (usb-c) and is nice and slim and stows nicely into a tablet pouch.

This works great with my iPad and iPhone. The hotkeys work quite well, I just have to press fn + esc to get back to Home on Apple devices. I love that above the regular backspace key is a “delete” key which works to delete whatever is to the right of the cursor while typing. That’s a key I wish was on Apple’s regular Magic Keyboard. Also, this keyboard somehow doesn’t drain my iPad’s battery like the Magic keyboards. There is something about the Magic Keyboard that drains my devices super fast, and I can use my iPad a lot longer with this keyboard. So this is exactly what I am looking for when away from an outlet! I like that it’s so compact and has a built-in cover. The cover can be folded to use as a stand for devices, although it’s not strong enough to support my iPad 10.5’’ Pro, but it’s perfect with my phone (which is fine, since my iPad’s case has it’s own built-in stand). The mousepad works surprisingly well, although if I know I’m mainly going to be typing, I stow it because my thumbs tend to touch it ever so slightly which leads to errors, like suddenly selecting a few lines of text and replacing it with my next keystroke. But it’s never caused any trouble that the undo button can’t fix. Almost all of the time, this keyboard reconnects perfectly with the iPad as soon as I turn the keyboard back on. When first pairing the keyboard, it is called “copper nomad BT 1.” Overall I am very happy with this keyboard.

The functionality promised a lot, but I was a little skeptical of it delivering. However this addition to the iPad is brilliant. The keyboard isn’t the best for typing long pieces, it lacks a little feedback, but let’s be honest that’s not what you buy an iPad for normally, so this isn’t a great loss. Having said that the keyboard works and for the normally activities of browsing and emails is more than adequate.

The real stars are the trackpad and the stand and it’s overall design.

The stand doubles as a cover and it will detach from the keyboard so you can place the screen away or raise it up on a monitor stand etc. There is a rail that holds the screen and also used to fix in place to the keyboard. The stand is supported by pushing the centre piece down, a really compact and clever design in all ways.

The trackpad, although small offers the use of the gestures and thus mimics the touch screen capabilities away from the screen. It also produced a small ‘cursor’ onscreen when using as a trackpad which mimic the use of a mouse and cursor.

Finally, the keyboard is marked up for Windows and Mac devices and can connect to 3 different devices. Switching is via a hot-key combo, thus adding great flexibility.

Far from a sceptic now and think this is great value for what is provided.

I am really impressed with this keyboard.

The keyboard is supplied with a USB C charging cable.

The keyboard itself is a compact keyboard with wide keys, and although it has a bit of a chicket look, the gap between keys is fairly small. There is a fold out trackpad that folds into the underside of the keyboard, and the keyboard cover folds up to act as a tablet stand. This makes the keyboard ideal to use with tablets and phones, but it also works brilliantly with desktop and laptop computers.

In use I found the keyboard generally good to type on, although there is a slight ridge on the base of the keyboard that may take a bit of getting used to if you have good typing habits and use your thumbs for space. I dont, so I didn’t notice this at first… The key travel is low, but the keys have a nice level of tactile response, so you can feel when the key is pressed. The keyboard makes minimal noise so should not disturb those around you.

The trackpad is nice and responsive, but I did find that it got in the way a little when I was using the keyboard to type on. As such, I personally would fold the touchpad a way unless I especially needed it. When I did use it though, the experience was positive.

Setup was easy. The device can be paired with three devices via Bluetooth, and the pairing experience was intuitive and easy. I just long pressed the Fn and number key for that device slot to be put into pairing mode, and a short press of Fn and a number key set the keyboard to that device.

I was a little concerned that the device was set up as a US keyboard, and although this is true, the UK layout is catered for with some of the keys having labels in a black box on the key. These are the UK layout symbols for the key, so I dont have to keep track of which key is which on the device. The keyboard also makes the pipe and backslash keys easily accessible (great if you have to manually type in network stuff) which is something a lot of small keyboards overlook.

Overall, this is a great version of the compact wireless keyboard and works brilliantly for those times when you need an external keyboard on a laptop, want to use it with a tablet or are working with very small amounts of desk space.