Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsIt's not a Blackberry, but it reminds you of one.
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2022
This unit has all the controls you need to type, move, point and click on a screen. It's comes in a light, sturdy, well designed, and easy-to-hold-with-two-hands plastic package.
Connect it with the provided USB dongle, or you can use it with Bluetooth as I do. Pairing is smooth. The connections are reliable, strong, and latency-free. My distances rarely exceed 20 feet and work fine.
It has a rechargeable battery that uses a USB micro connector. No cable or charger comes with it. If the battery dies, you can still use it almost immediately after plugging in a charger. The battery takes about 2 hours to fully charge using my old Motorola phone charger and runs for days when used lightly, as with a home theatre.
All the proper keys are there, well spaced, backlighted (in your choice of, like 8 colors), and they offer a nice click response. Tiny, tiny letters on some multi function keys desribe what they do.
The track pad works very well and takes up the right amount of space. You can scroll using a small drum with a light, detented action and a press-to-click feature. There are cursor arrows with a select button, all conveniently arranged together in an efficient circular pattern. Big switches are located at each upper corner (like game controllers) and work like left and right mouse clicks, respectively.
There are volume and browser control buttons that work well when your system supports them.
There is a switch to turn it off/on. Power/Cap Lock/Battery have useful status lights. You can mess with backlight colors and trackpad sensitivity (somewhat crude).
I use these on home theater PCs running NextPVR or a browser, on mini pcs sitting on a shelf or in a cabinet, and android tablets when I want to use a real keyboard. I keep one in my computer bag for controlling presentations.
Not a gamer, so I can't say much for those curiosities other than try it if you can and see how it works. For keyboard interfaces, I suppose it could be great!
I have about 6 of these scattered around and they work very well. Family members and visitors pick up and run with these quickly. I've been using them for years now.
A nice component in a well functioning technotoy system.
