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A significant step back from Gen 1.
I have the Tap Strap 1, and as an active user of the previous version I gave it a couple days of testing before making my judgement. Well... the new design makes the top of the knuckles completely fixed where before they had minimal play. I wouldn’t say I have huge hands - and I want it made clear that the Tap Strap 1 worked fine for me. Well, no matter how much I tried to adjust it, I could not get reliable detection of my finger movements. Whenever I’d try a single middle finger press, half the time it would also detect a ring finger press as well. Doing a ring finger press would have a 1/5 chance of middle finger detection. The air mouse settings - even when adjusting the mouse speed and sensitivity in both its app and within the OS as much as possible would very regularly jump over by about 1 line of text at a time making accurate selections near impossible. That combined with the default gestures which frankly are not well thought out. For example, to left click, you point and then raise your finger up like a gun recoiling. Unfortunately, that means where you were trying to click is now gone, and it may take half a second before it realizes “oh, gesture” and then try to make a best guess on where you were when you intended to click. It would make far more sense if left click were instead point with one finger out, others wrapped inwards like stereotypical pointing and tap your thumb to your inward curled fingers, but that’s not how they designed it. Same with many of the other gestures.
I’d feel much different if this were only software issues, but frankly there are glaring hardware ones too that make gen 2 inferior to gen 1 as it lost the ability to reliably type. And unfortunately for a keyboard, being able to type is the most important piece. The rest are gimmicks.
November 2019 · Electronics · verified purchase