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Review on πŸ–₯️ Rii 2.4G Mini Wireless Keyboard with Touchpad Mouse: Lightweight and Portable Controller for Windows/Mac/Android/PC/Tablets/TV/Xbox/PS3 - X1-Black by David Urbanski

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Okay, but there are some serious flaws

It's light, small, inexpensive and seems to have decent battery life. But it has several significant disadvantages: 1) The touchpad is too sensitive to register "pressing". Because the touchpad is very small, it takes a lot of repetitive motion to move the cursor across the screen. Every movement is a possible unintentional click. That can be annoying. 2) Sometimes the buttons work fine after waking from sleep, but the touchpad has a strange behavior where any movement of the touchpad is "backwards" when the finger is lifted. So when you try to move the cursor, it just goes back to where it started as soon as your finger loses contact with the touchpad. This problem is easy to work around - just turn the device off and on again to get it working again. But it's still annoying. 3) There is no Win key, so you have to use Fn+Ctrl for Win. But it doesn't work to hold Win - it just works like pressing the Win key once. So a key combination like Win + X or Win + L is not possible: the keyboard immediately sends a press/release of the Win key, even if you hold down Fn + Ctrl. I worked on this by using SharpKeys to map the AltGr key to Win. So everything is fine with the device and most of the shortcomings can be eliminated. But knowing what I know about the device, I would choose something else.

Pros
  • Best
Cons
  • Ugly packaging