Brydge 12.3 Pro+ Wireless Keyboard with Precision Touchpad | Compatible with Microsoft Surface Pro 7, 6, 5 & 4 | Designed for Surface | (Black)

Brilliant product and must have for surface pro owners. It seamlessly converts tablet to a laptop with much better look and feel than microsoft keyboard

Spent days looking for a Brydge or similar for my Surface Pro 9. read the reviews. Finally took a chance and bought this one. It works. It is made for the Surface Pro 8 but I can make it work as there is nothing else on the market to turn the tablet into a laptop effectively. Good looking product!

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Bought this product, because the existing keyboard of my table had worn off. Pleasantly surprised with this product. Was easy to install .. Very sturdy and make the Tablet like a laptop.

Writing this on second day of delivery Build quality is really good. Comes in nice packaging. First impressions are very convincing

Those of us who own Microsoft Surface tablets love and loath them. We love them because they are powerful, thin, light, and fun to use. We loath them because they aren't quite a laptop, even with the MS clip-on keyboard cover. The kickstand idea looks good on paper, but how many of us really use tablets as tablets and not like ad-hoc laptops? Without a keyboard, you are basically wasting 80% of the Surface's power. Just go buy an iPad if all you want is a tablet. You'll be happier with it if all you're doing is watching streaming video or reading books. But if what you want is a modular tablet/keyboard combo to get you the power of a laptop with the versatility of a laptop, you really only have a couple of options. a) You buy Micro$oft's keyboard/cover combo, which is decent enough, but doesn't really solve that painful kickstand problem when you try to use it as a pseudo-laptop... or b) You buy a bluetooth keyboard/folio combo, which is usually a major kludge and chock full of compromises. Performance suffers and the whole thing just looks cheap. Why spend $800 on a Surface when it winds up looking like you stuffed it into a cheap pleather case with a crappy bluetooth keyboard. Enter option c) The Brydge 12.3 Pro+ bluetooth keyboard. This is the first and only (to my knowledge) keyboard that actually makes the Surface act more like a SurfaceBook. You slip the Surface into the clips that hold it snugly to the keyboard, you pair up the Bluetooth, you get typing. I'm typing this review on it, BTW. In the world of keyboard options the Brydge 12.3 Pro+ is... a) An incredible keyboard (super comfortable with a decent amount of spring to the keys) b) Well balanced (it has enough weight to keep the tablet part from tipping it over) c) Seems very stable as far as the Bluetooth connection is concerned The pros are obvious. For the first time the Surface behaves like a true laptop without the cheap pleathery case/combo feel. The cons are a little tougher to define, but they get down to the central issue. If you want a true SurfaceBook, get ready to spring another $500 to get into the ballpark. This does not make the Surface a SurfaceBook. The surface doesn't "clip" into the Brydge the way the MS keyboard/cover clips onto the Surface. The Brydge uses small-ish tabs at the lower corners of the surface to "cinch" the Surface into place. They are silicone coated clips that provide a snug, but not "clicked" point of connection with the tablet. In other words, the tablet *can* slip free, especially if you do what I did and try to add a sticker to the back of your Surface to protect that beautiful aluminum case from scratches. Then, what you'll wind up doing is also what I did, cutting away pieces of that beautiful skin so the clips maintain perfect, flat contact with the back of the Surface. After I put the skin on and tried to clip the Surface into the Brydge, the clips failed to make perfect contact, so the silicone coating wouldn't grip and the tablet slipped right out. But, if you do buy a skin and spend a few moments creating a template to cut the corners out before you apply it to your Surface, the silicone clips on the Brydge will maintain a reasonably snug connection with the tablet and you will have all the functionality of a slim, powerful laptop with a solid, author-approved keyboard. Bottom line, the Brydge 12.3 Pro+ keyboard for the Microsoft Surface Pro line of tablets is an incredible value, a solid performer, and perfectly funtional. Just buy a decent skin for the back of your Surface and make sure the silicone-covered pads that hold the Surface in place have complete contact with the tablet case and you'll enjoy the best of both worlds. The tablet functionality of the Surface when you need it, and the keyboard comfort of a laptop for the 80% of real world purposes that we buy a Surface for in the first place. Highly recommended.

This is a great Bluetooth keyboard with trackpad that will work (to varying degrees) with almost any computer. I am typing this on one of these paired with an ASUS ProArt PZ13 Surface-style tablet, have used it with an Android tablet, in Linux, and also paired to an iPad. On iPad I recall the trackpad not working for some strange reason that I would, perhaps falsely, attribute to Apple. Brydge went out of business, was bought out, and is sort of still a thing. This keyboard, a significant upgrade from the Brydge 12.3 for older Surfaces, is a bit of an abandoned product, for sure. But. It's selling for $60CDN vs $130USD, works with everything I've thrown at it, and is of quite high quality. If, in 2025, you are on the fence about this, just go for it. It is better than anything similar for $60. Even as a backup for a standard Surface keyboard, it's great. I have a bunch of Brydge keyboards that I've purchased on heavy discount in the last year or so. They are all great. No regrets.

It is much nicer to type in than in the Microsoft keyboard and turns your Surface into a laptop.

I love this product. I'm so impressed with the fit and finish that I'm writing this review mere minutes after opening it. The key travel is wonderful. I exclusively use Lenovo ThinkPads for work, which are reputed to have the best keyboards in the industry. This keyboard's key travel is slightly shorter, but the switches are just as crisp and positive in tactile feedback. The touchpad is perfectly sized; large enough to be comfortable, but small enough that I've not had any false touches with my thumbs' base joint, unlike on the Microsoft Surface keyboards. It has a slight texture, unlike the glass-smoothness of the Mac. Personally, I like it. The non-control surfaces have a similar texture, but slightly rougher so you know if you are on the touchpad or not. The hinges are solid, but don't feel so stiff that I worry about breaking the screen. I'm on an ancient Surface Pro 4, and the u-shaped mounting brackets fit it loosely. They're rubber-lined so the Surface itself doesn't slide if I hold the joined unit at a slight angle, but I would _not_ tilt the joined unit 90 degrees - the mounting brackets just don't hold it tightly enough. Depending on your use cases, this may be a shortcoming. For me, I hope to use the tablet as a digital art platform, so being able to easily remove it from the keyboard without fear that it will ruin the Surface is definitely desirable. Note that one of the other reviewers said that it gripped their Surface Pro 7 so securely that attempting to remove it caused the screen to crack. I can say that I've tested placing it and removing it from the brackets at least ten times and each time it held competently and was easy to lift out without any perceived strain on the Surface, but again, I have a Surface Pro 7. The keyboard's hinges are cleverly designed so the keyboard is slightly inclined when opened. The angle is less steep than the Microsoft Surface Pro keyboard, but it's free of the annoying bounce if you are a heavy-handed typist like me. There are 3 levels of backlighting in addition to no backlighting at all. At its brightest, it is not very bright - enough to see the key cap translucent letters and the outlines, but not so bright as to irritate. For my finger memory, I would wish it kept the same Fn key layout as the Microsoft Surface Pro keyboard, but I'm sure Brydge had their reasons to make the subtle changes in what the F1 - F12's alternate Fn keystrokess do (e.g. vol up, vol down, etc.) In closing, this is the first text I wrote on this device. I was very pleased with the look, the feel, and the overall integration with the Surface Pro 4, so much so I wanted to share my initial impressions with potential buyers. At $150, it is much more expensive than other BT keyboards, but the ability to use it on my lap, or just the freedom from the 'bounce' when bottoming out the keystroke, is well worth it in my eyes, with my money.