Even after doing this, I found myself happier when I ignored the carriage return as a feature. The Qwerkywriter S’s carriage return bar complete’s the keyboard’s vintage look, but feels superfulous.Īs Qwerkytoys is quick to point out, the carriage return bar can be reprogrammed with other macros. Apparently, the keyboard’s designers thought so too: the keyboard, despite being equipped with the carriage return lever, it also has a conventional Enter key. Asking typists to commit to using the lever to move to a new paragraph in their writing is asking a lot of their muscle memory. As a vintage typewriter aficionado, I dig the aesthetic of the Qwerkywriter’s carriage return bar, but I can’t get behind its functionality. Even most typewriters, in their final years of word processing dominance, did this. Computer users have spent decades hitting the Enter key to begin a new paragraph. The Qwerkywriter’s most iconic feature, a working carriage return/enter lever, can be problematic. This proved more than a little frustrating during testing. What’s more, the keyboard’s scroll knob doesn’t work across the board on all text-based apps in iOS. Document scrolling is far easier with a mouse or trackpad, or, on an iOS device, a finger flick. I love the concept, but I seldom used the wheels.
The Qwerkywriter S has those wheels one allows you to scroll through the text that you’re working on (it’ll scroll through webpages, as well) the other wheel is a volume control. Back in the day, to advance or retreat in the page you’re typing, you had to to thread it, forwards or back, using a wheel at either end of the typewriter’s carriage. The Qwerkywriter’s design is meant to be a throwback to a time when typing was an entirely mechanical affair. That it wasn’t equipped with USB-C connectivity, given the growing dominance of the standard in the computing world, feels like a serious misstep. The keyboard is charged via a microUSB to USB-A connection.
I found that a charge of the keyboard’s battery would last me for around two week’s worth of writing. However, the position of the stand cannot be adjusted, so taller users may quickly find themselves working with a kink in their neck. If you do choose to use it with a tablet or smartphone, you’ll be glad to know that the keyboard comes with a built-in stand, positioned to make it look like the device you’re using is a piece of paper fed into a typewriter. The Qwerkywriter can be paired with three different devices-an iPhone, iMac, and iPad, for example-and switch between them with the push of a button. Touch typists (provided they can live with the feel of the round key caps,) will love this thing. The keyboard’s rollover is excellent, as are the pitch and travel of its keys. When comes to providing an overall sound, mechanical keyboarding experience, the Qwerkywriter S, with its Cherry MX switches, delivers.
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Since the Qwerkywriter’s key caps are round-as opposed to the neat chicklet-style keys that Mac users are accustomed to-the spacing between the keys can feel massive at times.
The Qwerkywriter S’s round keycaps could make touchtyping difficult for some users.
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