I recently bought a "NEW Trent™" case with removable bluetooth keyboard. I wanted good protection for the iPad 2 and a real keyboard. The NEW Trent fits the bill very nicely and you can charge your iPad 2 and the keyboard at the same time with the case closed up.
Setup was a breeze and I rate the form, fit and function as excellent.
The virtual screen keyboard is quite irritating to me, so using this BT keyboard has been a great pleasure, so far.
I found keyboard controls for the Apple iPad keyboard on line, as the NEW Trent came with no manual. Being an Apple newbie, I had no clue as to what the Apple keyboard was all about, so writing this with the NEW Trent keyboard using iWork Pages has been a very helpful exercise.
These keyboard controls work for the NEW Trent keyboard in Pages.
Shortcuts for Controlling Device Settings & Media
F1 decrease brightness (dim) for device screen
F2 increase brightness for device screen
F8 media play or pause
F9 navigate forwards for media playing (next song)
F7 navigate backwards for media playing (previous song)
F10 Mute media playing
F11 decrease volume for media sound
F12 increase volume for media sound
Option (or Comd or Shift or Control) + F9 skips to next album
Option (or Comd or Shift or Control) + F7 returns to previous album
The Trent keyboard has no keys labeled F1...F12, but all these shortcut keys are included in the top row with easily, understood symbol labels. They all functioned perfectly for screen brightness and music playback.
The top row also has some other useful keys as well, like a keyboard key and a select all key.
Keyboard Shortcuts for Selecting Text or Moving within text paragraph or document
-Comd A Select All (the top row key performs the same function)
-Comd C Copy Text
-Comd X Cut
-Comd V Paste
-Option + Delete, delete entire words one at a time to the left of the cursor
-Comd Z Undo
-Shift + comd + Z Redo
-Shift + Right Arrow selects/deselects letter by letter moving to the right
-Shift + Left Arrow selects/deselects letter by letter moving to the left
-Shift + Up Arrow selects/deselects text when moving up
-Shift + Down Arrow selects/deselects text when moving down
-Option + Shift + Right arrow allows you to select/deselect text word by word when moving right
-Option + Shift + Left arrow allows you to select/deselect text word by word when moving left
-Option + Shift + Up arrow allows you to select/deselect text line by line when moving up
-Option + Shift + Down arrow allows you to select/deselect text line by line when moving down
-Comd + Up Arrow move the cursor to the beginning of document
-Comd + Down Arrow move the cursor to the end of document (also works with Control)
-Comd + Right Arrow move the cursor to the end of the line (also works with Control)
-Comd +Left Arrow move to the beginning of the line
-Tab indents the text
-Right, Left, Up and Down Arrows will move the cursor in the body of the text
All of the above work correctly with the Trent.
Eject Button (on upper, right of keyboard) disconnects bluetooth keyboard to allow accessing the virtual keyboard on the device.
The Trent keyboard does not have an eject button. It has a top row button with a keyboard symbol; when pressed it turns on the virtual keyboard. You can then use both keyboards together. The Trent also has an on/off switch at the upper right corner.
Comd + Spacebar select a different (International) keyboard if one has been added to the list of available keyboards in the General Settings for the device
I have not tested selection of a different keyboard.
Keyboard Shortcuts to Yield Special Symbols - Using option key and letters/numbers yields special symbols, and using option shift and a letter/numbers produces some additional symbols.
Option w yields the symbol ∑
Option r yields the registered trademark symbol ®
Option d yields the symbol sigma ∂
Option p yields the symbol for pi π
Option g yields the symbol for copyright ©
Option 2 yields the symbol for trademark ™
Option x yields the symbol for approximately equal to ≈
Option v yields the square root symbol √
Option k yields the degree symbol ˚
Option 4 yields the cent symbol ¢
Option j yields the delta symbol ∆
Option , yields the lesson than and equal to symbol ≤
Option . yields the greater than and equal to symbol ≥
Option / yields the division symbol ÷
Option n + (then release option key) followed by letter n yields the ñ
Option e = (then release option key) followed by letter e yields é
Option ` = (then release option key) followed by a or e or i yields à and è and ì
Option 5 yields the infinity sign ∞
Option 8 yields the bolded bullet •
Option ; yields the ellipse symbol (3 dots in a row) …
Option b yields the integral symbol ∫
Option 1 yields the upside down exclamation point ¡
Each of the symbols you see above and the ones shown below were created correctly with the Trent keyboard using the indicated key combinations within Pages.
There are also a number of symbols that can be typed when using the shift key along with the option key and a letter/number.
Option + Shift + k yields the apple symbol
Option + Shift + 3 yields the less than symbol ‹
Option + Shift + 4 yields the greater than symbol ›
Option + Shift + letter o yields the null symbol Ø
Option + Shift + 3 yields the less than symbol ‹
Option + Shift + 4 yields the greater than symbol ›
Option + Shift + letter o yields the null symbol Ø
Option + Shift + 2 yields the Euro symbol €
Option + Shift + equals symbol = yields the ± symbol
Option + Shift + left bracket [ yields the right double quotes ”
Option + left bracket [ yields the left double quotes “
Option + Shift + right bracket ] yields the right single quote ’
Option + right bracket ] yields the left single quote ‘
Option + Shift + front slash / symbol yields the upside down question mark used in Spanish ¿
Yep, the iPad is great, especially that autocorrect.
