![]() ![]() There is not much else to describe here which you have not already seen-the AZIO Retro Classic BT is a fairly standard keyboard in that it does everything expected of a QWERTY keyboard, but better than most office keyboards. For context, AZIO rates battery life to be over a year without any backlighting. Charging is slow with the keyboard taking ~0.4 A over 5 V for the USB connection, but I never actually ran out of battery life on the keyboard in my weeks of testing. For context, most full-size wireless mechanical keyboards have a 2000 mAh battery or smaller, so having something this big for this keyboard helps with battery life on the order of months depending on your usage. AZIO did a good job of balancing out portability and weight, with the wood and frame not only adding enough heft to make the keyboard solid, but balancing out the mass from the battery. The default lighting turning off after inactivity works better than putting the entire keyboard to sleep as some others do, and the relatively massive 5000 mAh battery helps a lot, too. The Bluetooth connectivity with the Retro Classic BT keyboard was flawless in my testing, and I can understand why AZIO went with BT 4.0 as many devices today still do not support Bluetooth 5.0. ![]() The lights will turn off after 5 minutes of no activity to preserve battery life by default in BT mode, as well as within a few seconds of no Bluetooth connection. There is onboard control on the backlighting brightness, and we have five steps (0, 25, 50, 75, and 100 %) to choose from. ![]() Sure, it does help that they are crammed into the center as we saw before, but it does at least work as intended, so I will give them that. The diffuser element built into the switch housing also works well, and we have all the legends backlit very uniformly. When first connected, all the LEDs light up white at 100%, and given this keyboard doesn't use RGB LEDs, it is as true a white as any I have seen on a keyboard. ![]()
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