Targus AMB01US Bluetooth Mini Mouse - with Bluetooth Adapter

by Targus

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00030NR6Q
• Item model number: AMB01US
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 12, 2004

Product Description

1.The Targus Bluetooth mini mouse combines Bluetooth technology in a mouse that was designed for the mobile user and ease of travel. Bundled with a Bluetooth adapter this mouse features a unique auto pair-up button that provides 1-touch quick, easy and accurate connecting of Bluetooth devices to the PC. The adapter converts a traditional PC to a Bluetooth enabled system and allows it to work with up to 7 Bluetooth devices at the same time. For additional freedom, this mouse has up to 33 feet/10 meters of control range from your PC.2.High resolution 800 dpi optical mouse .3.Bluetooth Class 2 and v1.2 compliant . 4 .On/off switch preserves and extends the battery life

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cool mouse, but didn't work with my Powerbook!, December 23, 2004

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Juan Colomina - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Targus AMB01US Bluetooth Mini Mouse - with Bluetooth Adapter (Personal Computers)

After searching all over the place for the best BT mouse I finally saw this small and very responsive mouse. The problem... for whatever reason, it doesn't work properly with OS X or my powerbook. I had to return two of them because they failed in the same way. They had connection issues from the beginning, but the worst was still to come. After a few days of use they would start loosing connection more and more often, and finally not connect at all. And no, it wasn't the batteries. Two sets of brand-new batteries wouldn't fix it.
I give it 4 stars because, if it works for you, I think it is one of the best BT mouse I've seen to date. A bit expensive if you are not going to use the BT adapter, but I figured it could come in handy someday.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The other reviews pretty much sum it up, November 30, 2005

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Joel Kolstad "Zimbo" (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Targus AMB01US Bluetooth Mini Mouse - with Bluetooth Adapter (Personal Computers)

This is a nice mouse, albeit with some drawbacks:

-- The full retail price is high -- I kept looking at it for at least six months, finally getting it at a Black Friday sale for less than half of the full retail price, albeit with a mail-in rebate.
-- Battery life seems like it's going to be a little iffy. If you use it daily, use rechargeables, if you don't, it probably won't be a problem. However, I've seen some mice that can function corded or cordless (they recharge in corded mode), which would be a nice addition.
-- Range, responsiveness, and feel are great (at least if your hand isn't so big the small size doesn't become a problem)
-- Re-connecting can be slow or problematic. :-( It's often faster to manually delete and re-add the thing rather than waiting for Windows to automatically pick it up.
-- It works fine with the built-in wireless hardware in my Sony laptop; I think the guy who says you're forced to use the included USB<-->Bluetooth adapter is having configuration problems and somehow got off on a tangent deciding that some DRM problem was the cause.

Note that Kensington has what appears to be a pretty nice mini-Bluetooth mouse these days too. It is, however, noticeably bigger than this one, and for me smaller was better.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars An immature product, October 5, 2005

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X. Huang "notebook user" (Cincinnati OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Targus AMB01US Bluetooth Mini Mouse - with Bluetooth Adapter (Personal Computers)

Advantage:
--Cute: the mouse I got is very small and lightweight. I feel comfortable when I use it.
--Quick: the mouse responds very quickly. The mouse will go to 'sleep' mode after 20-minute quiescence, and if you right-click the mouse, it will come back to respond in less than 1 second. (I know some reviews said that it may take 1 minutes before the mouse re-respond, but I believe that it is because the wrong configuration)
--Long range effective: I have tried that and it worked well at 18 ft. (The long range effect is that the mouse will respond a little slowly)
--Battery saving: because the mouse will go to 'sleep' after 20 minutes, I don't have to keep an eye on it and remember to shut it down every time I go out to meet friends.
--Multi-link of BT network: This should be a very important function of BT devices, but I haven't got a chance to try that.

Weakness: (risks)
--Style: the mouse is designed to hit you by its powerful function, so it has only one style and one color. If you are considering to buy it as a gift, you should think about his/her taste. Maybe IBM or Logitech is a better choice in this case.

--Battery saving: the mouse uses 2 AAA batteries, which makes it face the high risk of power shortage. This is a confusing preference, as I know. Someone said his mouse can run more than 1 month before battery change and other's can insist only 1 week. My mouse has only 4-day battery life in daily usage (with correct configurations), which is the only reason that I finally returned it to the seller.

--Configuration: the setup and configuration process of this mouse take more than 10 steps, which requires patience and accurate operations with the manual. It looks like that the manual is wrote by technician in a hurry and there is no 'redundant information' in it, which means you really have to read it carefully and follow up every instrument. (If the configuration is not correct, the mouse will have strange behaviors. It will work very slow, take one minute to recover from the sleep mode, be no response after the sleep, can't connect with the computer unless you reboot and exhaust battery much faster. But if you configure it correctly, these phenomena should disappear.)

Conclusion:
--Risk of investigation: relatively high price, uncertainty of battery life, time demand in setup and configuration
--Utility-Cost compare: BT has powerful functions such as BT network, fax, file transfer, printer, etc. It makes the mouse attractive and expensive at the same time. For me, common wireless RF mouse is enough to meet most of my demand.