 
Filco made mechanical keyboards is well known for their excellent built quality, longevity and typing experience throughout the mechanical keyboard community. In today’s review, we’ll be getting our hands on the Filco Majestouch Minila Air, million thanks to Inter-Asia Technology for providing us with the review sample.
The Minila Air is a minimum layout bluetooth mechanical keyboard from Filco, continuing the legacy of the long forgotten Majestouch Wireless. Comes with a steep price tag of RM 429, what does the Majestouch Minila Air has to offer to be worthy of that price tag? Guess we’ll find out soon enough!
Model | Filco Majestouch Minila Air |
Layout | 67 Keys US ASCII key arrangement |
Interface | Bluetooth 3.0 HID profile |
Key Switch | Cherry MX Red, Blue or Brown |
Keycap Type | ABS |
Dimension/Weight | Â 297mm x 124mm x 40mm / 680g |
Accessories | AA batteries, FILCO key puller, Key caps for replacement |
- extremely short right shift
- extremely short spacebar
- extremely short backspace
No worries of low quality imitation switches used as these are the genuine Cherry MX Blue from Cherry Corp.
User Experience
Typing on the Minila Air might trouble those who already become accustomed with a full-sized keyboard, but you’ll find it pleasant once you get the hang of it. Its small footprint makes it extremely portable and much of an ideal keyboard for mechanical keyboard lovers who travels a lot.
Connection wise, the initial device pairing might take awhile but as soon as it’s ready, the connection from turning on the keyboard takes only a seconds. It works great with our bluetooth enabled laptop and iPad and we didn’t experience any input delay throughout the entire typing test.
Our Verdict
Filco keyboards doesn’t comes cheap and we’re pretty sure that most end users would probably prefer to get a nice gaming keyboard with tons of colorful LED on it with that amount of money or a low cost mini layout bluetooth keyboard with a much lower price. Â
As a user who already become accustomed typing on a mechanical keyboard, we find the Minila Air a good travel companion due to its small footprint and being able to satisfy our picky fingers. At the same time, we find there’s very limited option for custom keycaps as we haven’t came into any that is able to fully support the Minila Air due to its non-standard 60% layout.
 Pros
- Solid build quality
- Comes with Filco metal wire keycap puller and dustproof plastic cover
- Ideal for travel and limited workspaceÂ
- Extremely smooth keycaps
- Quick and easy bluetooth device pairing that takes only a few seconds
- Support up to 3 device saved in keyboard memory
- Comes with dip switch to change they key mapping to suits your preferenceÂ
Cons
- Hefty price tag
- Due to the nature of ABS material, the keycaps is expected to wear faster than PBT/POM
- Non-standard 60% layout gives limited option for custom keycaps
- Non-standard 60% layout makes typing a little unpleasant to those who are more accustomed to the standard 100%/80%/60% layoutÂ
