The Logitech K780 is a rather odd device. It’s a wireless Bluetooth keyboard that isn’t meant to be mobile like many similar boards and instead should sit in one place and connect to multiple devices.

Billed as the “Multi-Device Wireless Keyboard”, the K780’s party trick is twofold: three dedicated buttons in the top row to quickly connect to three different devices and a top sill that allows you to position phones and tablets without the need for a stand.

Before you even take the K780 out of the box it’s clear how it accomplishes the second part of its tricks without tipping over: a lot of weight. This isn’t a battleship keyboard that can be used to fight off an intruder – this being the tongue in cheek de facto way many people talk about older boards – but it’s unusually weighty for a slim chiclet Bluetooth offering.

The 875 grams of weight and extremely solid backplate means that there will be no tipping even if you have both a tablet and phone slotted into the top.

Finally out of the packaging and the K780 has the usually high quality build you’d expect from Logitech.

The main face and keys are a simple black plastic affair but it feels to be on the thicker side and should stand up to years of frantic typing.

The top sill is made with external devices in mind and a very hard rubber is in place that holds those phones and tablets in place with some friction without damaging them. This is a really nice coating with some speckles in it that is made to look a bit like marble.

Those coming from a laptop or similar low profile keyboard will be immediately comfortable. Key presses have a short thrown before you bottom out and it’s towards the more pleasant end of these kinds of non-mechanical experiences.

Coming from keyboard with higher profile keys, the K780 shouldn’t take more than a day or two to become acclimatised to…

Well that’s what we would say if not for the first of this keyboard’s what we’re gong to call “eccentricities” to be nice.

The bottom left cluster of keys on this keyboard is unforgivably bad. Just look at this abomination with a tiny shrunken left shift and extra button included in its place.

We’re not sure if Logitech realises, but, in English, capitalised letters are used very often. You know, a minimum of one time per sentence. We cannot fathom why the shift was made so small and this cluster of keys is arguably the worst part of the K780 and we can legitimately see it as a big reason why some people may hate using it.

This is a real shame as the rest of the typing experience and the build quality under your fingers is rather good. The only habitual problem we still had after our time with this board was missing the space bar or space bar inputs requiring a bit more force than expected to register.

Other hardware worth mentioning is a small USB receiver for use on PC and the battery situation. There’s no rechargeable battery but two AAAs which come in the box.

We had the K780 for review over a couple of weeks and still have no sign of the pre-installed single-use batteries giving out. We’ll have to take Logitech’s word that the batteries will last 24 months, a figure we believe as we left the keyboard turned on for the entire review period with no problems.

The next big eccentricity is the lack of adjustable height. These kinds of keyboards aren’t expected to have this feature, but for the South African RRP of R1 105 we should not have to use a stack of paper to make it more ergonomic.

With eccentricities aside we need to talk about software where we’re going to instead say things are outright bad.

First of all the K780 does not work with the Logitech Hub software. Logitech Hub is supposed to be a centralised piece of software that works across Logitech devices but the K780 instead needs software called Logitech Options.

In our recent Logitech Brio review we called out the fact that Logitech Hub is not at all a hub of Logitech hardware and software coming together, so check out that piece for more complaining.

Logitech Options is a barebones offering that does the bare minimum and nothing more. We’re a bit shocked that only a select number of keys in the top row can be re-programmed. We see no reason why every key can’t be reassigned or set as a macro but that seems to be an industry-wide problem.

Aside from Logitech Options being limited in scope it also needs to hang around on your computer indefinitely. Because the K780 has no internal memory of its own any changes made in the software will be wiped away should you uninstall it.

Again for the local RRP of R1 105 we wanted internal memory. How much can a few kilobytes of memory cost to keep our settings without software being involved? All we wanted was for the option to turn off the massive caps lock key to hang around without Logitech Options running all the time, but that’s too much to ask.

The Logitech K780 has been our daily driver for the last few weeks and we’ve put thousands and thousands of words into it. It’s been a positive experience overall and we’ve even had success with it playing games too, but the little niggles and “eccentricities” hold it back.

With those little niggles in mind this still may be the keyboard for you if you’re looking for its niche use cases.