HP Wireless Comfort Mobile Mouse (Moonlight)

by HP

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.7 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0029L6QJM
• Item model number: NU565AA#ABA
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 11, 2009

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Combining style and on-the-go comfort, the ergonomically designed wireless HP Comfort Mouse in Moonlight provides uncompromising performance and advanced features at an affordable price.

• High-Tech travel design: Sleek Moonlight finish, blue LED and contoured edges give this mouse a distinctive style. Compact size makes it easy to take with your laptop--around the house or on the road.
• Ultra-Comfortable: Symmetric sculpted design for right or left handed comfort. The rubber material on both sides gives you enhanced control, soft touch and feel.
• Wireless freedom: Advanced 2.4 GHz wireless technology for less interference and longer range of operation means no wires to tangle or limit movement. The micro-receiver is so small you can leave it plugged into your notebook--no more broken or lost receivers.
• Laser Performance: high-precision laser sensor provides precise, smooth and responsive tracking. Travel with confidence to leave your mouse pad behind, the laser tracking works on more surfaces than a standard optical mouse. No ball and no cleaning.
• Programmable buttons: 2 additional programmable buttons are easily accessible on each side which allow you to launch applications, control sound volume, navigate backward and forward, zoom in and out or launch your favorite websites.
• Advanced scroll wheel: 4-way tilt scroll wheel allows you to navigate right and left. The textured wheel and ratcheted scrolling design has been optimized to provide both control and speed.
• Speed and control: Teflon feet gives your mouse accuracy and progressive speed
• Energy efficient components: single AA battery lasts up to 7 months
• Automatic power saving features with smart standby modes

What's in the Box
HP wireless mouse; USB wireless micro-receiver; one AA battery; software and documentation

Specifications

• 1200 dpi laser sensor
• 5 buttons: two primary buttons, clickable scroll wheel and 2 additional programmable buttons
• USB wireless (2.4 GHz) micro-receiver
• Compatible with Microsoft Windows systems and with both HP and non-HP PCs
• 1 year limited warranty

Product Description

Add style to your notebook with the HP Wireless Comfort Mobile Mouse. Designed to fit comfortably in your hand, it features a wireless USB receiver that is so small you won't have to worry about it breaking off; just plug it in and forget about it. The laser sensor in the mouse enables you use it on more surfaces and with greater accuracy versus optical mice.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice mouse, not-so-great software, February 25, 2010

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Hyun Yu - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Wireless Comfort Mobile Mouse (Moonlight) (Personal Computers)

I wanted a wireless mouse with a nano receiver for my new laptop. Having blown a lot of money on the said laptop, I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a mouse. This HP Wireless Comfort Mobile mouse looked good--nano receiver, two extra buttons on the sides of the mouse, and cost about $15-20 less than those from Microsoft or Logitech. I wanted to test one in person before buying it, but none of the stores around here carried the HP line of mice, so I bought one sight unseen from Amazon.

The mouse itself is pretty good. The form factor is consistent as other "laptop" mice--small and comfortable. The scroll wheel is a bit stiffer and thus takes more effort to roll than the mice I have used from Microsoft or Logitech, but not in a bad way. One nice feature is that you can side-scroll left or right with the scroll wheel button. Whereas some higher-end mice you can use the horizontal axis of the scroll wheel button to program two additional "clicking" functions, on this HP mouse you can only scroll. It came with an Energizer battery with a power-interrupting strip of plastic over one of the battery terminals. The mouse feels good in the hand, although the side buttons (one on each side) are much easier to access for those who "palm" the mouse (the whole hand rests over the mouse) than those who "claw" the mouse (index and middle fingers over the left and right buttons, thumb on the side). The mouse is symmetrical for both right and left handed users. It uses invisible "laser" (infrared?) to track motion, not the red LED light.

So the mouse itself is pretty good. Where this product fails to shine is the bundled software. The package states it supports Windows XP and Vista. I have Windows 7. So I didn't expect it to necessarily work right out of the box, and it didn't. Downloading the latest mouse driver from the HP site took care of the issue. One warning for Windows 7 users: If you've already installed the driver from the CD that came with the mouse, then when you download latest driver and try to install it, you'll get a message saying that the latest driver is already installed, do you still want to install this one? YES you do--it'll update the software from something like 10.0.1 to 10.0.2, and that's what recognized the mouse on my Windows 7 laptop.

Did I mention that the software is less than satisfactory. After you've gotten the computer and the mouse to talk, and everything is working fine, launching the HP Mouse Driver app will ALWAYS result in an error message saying, "Mouse Not Detected!" Very annoying. However, the HP app will show up in the task bar as a mouse icon, and you can access the mouse properties there to customize the buttons, etc. It would've been very nice if I could assign keyboard strokes to the two side buttons (since I do a lot of tabbed browsing, it'd been nice to assign "open in new tab" and "close current tab" keystrokes to those buttons. But no. You can only assign a limited Windows functions to the two side buttons--launch Windows Explorer, run Calculator, run Microsoft Word, etc. You can assign the scroll-wheel button functionality to one of the buttons, which will do the "open in a new tab" function.

One critical omission of the driver software: There is no setting to control how fast the cursor moves across the screen! That seems like such a basic feature to be missing.

All in all, I'm happy enough with the mouse itself. The software leaves a lot to be desired, as does the HP support website. But, for the price, it's a good value for those looking for an affordable wireless mouse with a nano receiver.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very nice, December 23, 2009

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Edward A. Webb "informationologist" (Portsmouth, NH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Wireless Comfort Mobile Mouse (Moonlight) (Personal Computers)

Got this as a gift and was very pleased when it arrives (as was the recipient). The mouse is a good size, even for larger hands. The usb dongle is very small,a nd stays out of the way. it also can be stuck inside the battery compartment during transport.

Bottom Line: I would recommend this to a friend.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Fit, October 19, 2009

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Stephanie Vasquez (phx) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Wireless Comfort Mobile Mouse (Moonlight) (Personal Computers)

I love my HP Wireless Comfort Mobile Mouse. It's moonlight white and perfectly matches my HP laptop. Amazon was the only place that had this in stock and was less than $45. I tried with eCOST but the whole thing was a mess with back order this and that. Anyway, mouse is perfect size, intuitive, and responsive to movement (I use for photoshop).