New Dual Mode Wireless Multimedia Keyboard with Touchpad Mouse Rii I4 Bluetooth 4.0 with 2.4G Wireless Mini Keyboard with Scroll Button LED Backlit Rechargeable Battery

Sensitivity of the touch pad could be better as it's not super accurate like a modern phone touch screen or laptop touch pad, and I'd like a mouse button under the touch pad so I can use one handed. Some of the keys are in different places to what I'm familiar with, like the apostrophe symbol. Apart from all that, it's a great device that turns my TV into a media PC when paired with my laptop. It goes to sleep after a few minutes, but that's probably a good thing to save battery life. You can easily switch it off and on to wake it up. The red scroll wheel is really useful and works well. Volume control is also useful. The shoulder buttons act as left and right mouse buttons. The d-pad is like the arrow keys on a keyboard. I haven't tried Bluetooth, I just used the USB dongle and it worked straight away on a Linux computer with no need to download any drivers.

I have been using the device for a good few months now and so, I can say that it really suits the needs that I purchased it for. The majority use of this device is to allow navigation and typing on a computer that I have connected to the living room TV to negate the need for a full sized keyboard/trackpad whilst sat on the couch. The device is connected to the computer via the wifi dongle and the response time is absolutely fine for navigating Windows 11. I also have set up the Bluetooth connection to navigate MacOS on an iMac with no noticeable lag to make navigation awkward on either Operating System.The switching between the two connectivity methods is simple on the device itself and changes virtually instantaneously. The backlighting on the keyboard is very helpful when ambient lighting is low. However, the device sleep timing is quite short and requires a key depression to re-wake the device. This is not a major issue but sometimes annoying if the trackpad is your major use, as trackpad movement doesn't appear to wake it up but only a physical key press. The battery life is reasonable but a feature that would've been handy would be a battery low indicator (however, when the battery is almost drained, the connectivity light does begin to blink off with every key pressed).Key presses themselves are pretty solid and leave no doubt that the key has been pressed, which may be handy to those that look at the device as opposed to the screen when typing who then look up to see that half the inputted key presses didn't register.The device is nice and light but well manufactured. The size is more than adequate for all the functions that the device has and nothing seems too tight to cause mis-clicking of the wrong button. The scroll wheel works well, the trackpad is responsive and the multi-touch functions seem to work as designed.The only thing I would have wished for, that is missing, is to have a shift key on the right-hand side of the keyboard. As, being a left hander, having to use the shift key from the left is an un-natural motion for me as when using a full sized keyboard, I would use my left-hand's little pinky to press that key leaving the rest of my fingers free to type any key on the left-hand side of the keyboard.Overall though, I am more than happy with this device since purchase and it does get used on an almost daily basis. So, for the price, I think it is a great piece of kit with its dual frequency capability and back lighting, it is a step above similar looking device of a similar shape (one of which I had purchased previously that was single frequency, no backlight nor scroll wheel).

There are a lot of media keyboards on sale, that look very similar to this Rii, and I have owned a few of them. But this Rii version is a much! higher quality keyboard than the others. Just picking it up, it has greater weight to it. It also has a removable rechargeable battery. So straight away, you can purchase a second battery, and just keep on rocking, when one battery dies. The scroll wheel is obviously the star feature, and it works very well. The scroll wheel is also clickable to further increase its use-ability. The keys backlight is also nice and bright. BUT! It’s as if Rii remembered the scroll wheel and backlight, then forgot basic features that are available on all! the other rivals. The volume and mute buttons are present, but there are no play/pause or stop buttons?? There is also only one shift and one Ctrl button. So using this keyboard in a browser is great. But the second you fire up Plex or Kodi, it becomes obvious that vital media buttons are missing. Also Rii, why in the living hell have you made it so stupidly awkward to turn that nice backlight on and off. Every other manufacturer just adds a single ‘backlight’ button. Whereas with this! Keyboard, you have to feel around on the dark to try and press the two buttons required to illuminate the keyboard. It’s STUPID!! So 10/10 for built quality, the scroll wheel and the backlight. But the next time someone gets up to make the tea in the Rii office, can they walk past the bloke who chose the keyboard layout and media ‘quick access’ keys, and slap them across the back of the head for being a total prat!If you ever add left and right hand shift and ctrl buttons. A single dedicate backlight on/off button (illuminated all the time), and a proper set of Plex/Kodi media buttons. Then you will have created the best mini wireless keyboard on the market.