TECKNET Bluetooth Mouse, 4800 DPI Wireless Mouse, 2-Year Battery 6 Adjustable DPI, 6 Buttons Compatible with Laptop/Windows/Computer - Purple

For some reason, Technet is still using this same listing on Amazon that used to be for their discontinued BM306 mouse for this fairly new model, the EWM01308 (it will be identified by your computer’s Bluetooth module as “BT5.0 Mouse”). The old BM306 was a good value, this mouse is about the same price but even better. It is a little larger, has better heft because it uses two AA batteries instead of just one, there are six DPI settings instead of three, and the color of the side buttons is an undistracting black instead of red. It tracks smoothly, the buttons are slightly noisy but all work well (fully compatible with my Mac and the BetterTouchTool driver software I use), the scroll wheel is smooth and fairly quiet but has nice tactile stops. I can’t comment on the battery life yet. I especially like that the mouse generates basic Button 3, Button 4 etc. values instead of the buttons being hard-coded for Page Up, Page Down, etc. as are Logitech and many other mice because the basic Button X values make using third-party mouse drivers much easier. This mouse is a great upgrade relative to the old BM306 and at the current price of between $11 and $16 depending on what color you choose and what discounts are currently being offered, it is a fantastic value. If Technet revised this mouse again I hope they add a third thumb button and a tilting scroll wheel but it’s quite nice as it is.Below is my old review of the BM306 from about 6 years ago:————— ————— —————Over the last 25 years I've owned a bunch of mice and and similar input devices ranging in quality from the crappy hockey puck that shipped with the first iMacs to some really nice Logitech units. I currently spend most of my time using an Apple Magic Mouse supplemented by an Apple Magic Trackpad and sometimes an Apple Bluetooth Mighty Mouse.Recently I've been playing some games and while the input devices I have were working OK I really wanted a few more buttons and physical buttons rather than just a touch surface over one big button. I gave some thought to pulling out one of my old Logitech MX1000 mice, which are really great, but while wireless they rely on a base station that has to be plugged into AC and a USB port, neither of which I wanted to bother with. I looked at Logitech's current offerings and all the mice I like use a unifying receiver which fits into a USB port and I didn't want to dedicate a USB port for this purpose.Just browsing mice on Amazon I saw this one, the TeckNet BM306. Bluetooth, 5 buttons (left click, right click, scroll wheel/middle click, and a pair of thumb buttons), a scroll wheel, and it seemed to be normal size, i.e. not huge but not made to be especially portable/tiny, either. The price caught my eye, too: Under thirteen bucks. The reviews were mixed but I decided to give it a try.The tracking is smooth and it works on my bare desk, my mouse pad, my thigh, and the arm of my leather lounge chair. I didn't spend time testing it on other surfaces such as mirrors; why would I ever want to use it on a mirror? All the buttons click and register with a good feel but a bit more volume than you might desire if using it in a shared space.The tracking speed, even at the lowest resolution, is faster than my Magic Mouse but tolerable so I don't have to adjust system settings every time I pick up the TeckNet mouse or resort to third-party drivers which allow tracking speed to be set on a device-by-device basis. I'll never use the button on the mouse to change the resolution but for those who find that useful you press that button once and the resolution changes and then the button flashes between one and three times to tell you which resolution setting you just changed to. If this were a function I was going to use I would prefer a slide selector on the bottom of the mouse rather than a button on the top with a flashing light indicator whose meaning has to be memorized.The scroll wheel works very nicely with a perceptible but smooth click as it rotates. Nothing's as good as scrolling with a touch surface but as physical scroll wheels go the one on this mouse is fine. I liked the scroll wheel tilt/left-right scroll/left-right buttons on my Logitech MX1000 mice but if I wanted more buttons I guess I would have looked at some other mouse instead of the BM306.I have a bit of third-party software on my Mac called BetterTouchTool which allows me to assign pretty much whatever functions I like to my mouse buttons. By default, the thumb buttons are back and forward which, in a web browser, will take you to your previous page or the reverse. I prefer to have them work as page down and page up in most applications (although it barely matters since I'm only using this mouse for a few games). Something like USB Overdrive would allow even more customization but BetterTouchTool is good enough for my current purposes and I have it running all the time for other functions, anyway.I wish the thumb buttons were a muted silver or black because the mouse is very professional-looking except for those red buttons on the side. A very minor quibble to be sure but the mouse would look less cheap with a different color choice on these parts.I haven't owned this mouse long enough to verify the claimed battery life but the mouse has three progressive, automatic, and very aggressive sleep modes so I wouldn't be surprised if a single AA battery were to last 15 months. I use rechargeable batteries so it will be a bit shorter for me but as long as it lasts a few weeks I'll be satisfied. In fact, I wish I could disable or at least adjust the mouse's power-saving behavior because while it wakes up with a click and reconnects to my Mac in just a second or three I'd rather that it not go into sleep mode in the time it takes me to walk to the bathroom, do number one, and walk back to my office. This is the only real complaint I have with the mouse and it's a very minor issue. I imagine that it might be more of an issue for users of non-Mac computers which tend to have less reliable communication with Bluetooth devices and I think that's likely the cause of the connection issues reported in most of the low-scoring reviews here. Less aggressive activation of power-saving sleep modes would probably eliminate most of these complaints.At this price I'm quite satisfied with my purchase. The mouse is a great value and if you can live with the infrared rather than a laser, it has enough buttons for your needs, you're right-handed, and you don't have baby or gargantua hands; it's well worth a try especially with Amazon's guarantee backing up your purchase.

This product is a 10 out of 10. I love it so much. It lets my hand rest on it and glides perfectly. I am so happy!

I liked the weight - it's not a feather and I wanted something that felt more substantial. I have large hands and I wanted something wider. In truth, it could have been a bit larger, but it's not bad. What I didn't like is the "power-saving". When it goes to sleep, you can only wake it up by scrolling (or clicking); simply moving it doesn't work. This means you can't "shake the mouse to wake up your computer". Also, the batteries are a *tight fit*. I doubled a piece of tape back on itself and stuck it under the batteries for easier removal.The big problem is that it abruptly stopped working after just over a year. The tracking light was still on, but zero connectivity. Wouldn't pair, light doesn't work, etc. Since it doesn't also have a RF option, it's basically trash.However, I haven't found anything better (size, weight, shape, etc) so I'll end up buying another.

Love this mouse. Got it for a great price and it does everything I need. Wish it was rechargeable but at least the batteries seem to last a long while. Side buttons for convenient back/forward function and dpi adjustment button right up top. Always connects quickly with no drops in Bluetooth. Scrolls fast, quiet clicking. Easy to use.

I needed a Bluetooth mouse for work, didn’t wanna worry about losing a dongle or spending 70 bucks on a Logitech one. Got this one the same day I ordered it for like 13 bucks or however much they cost. Works great for my needs. Decent feel, ergonomic enough to get me through a 10 hour shift. Would recommend

Good deel, I have been using it several years every day, no problem. Very easy to "recharge" because of batteries

This was a nice mouse, although a little cheap feeling and a bit bulky. I would have preferred a less smooth and glossy surface as well. The batteries definitely don't last 2 years. I had to replace mine after about a year. (I do use my computer daily for about 5-6 per day.) About a year of owning it I started having issues with it registering mouse clicks. I had to press very firmly on a more forward position on the mouse button than my finger normally hits. It has gotten worse, sometimes requiring several clicks for it to finally register. The other issue I started experiencing around the same time is that it does not reliably connect to the computer. Sometime a reboot of the computer and turning the mouse off and on fixed it. But I've had to remove and re-install the mouse from my Bluetooth devices it a few times. It finally got to the point today (after 1 year and 4 months) that nothing I do works. The computer doesn't even see the mouse when trying to pair it. I have another mouse that I normally us on another computer, and that one connected to this computer without issue, and my other Bluetooth devices still work. Therefore, I know the issue is the mouse itself. It's never been dropped or fallen off the desk to have damaged it.It was good and reliable while it lasted, and I can't really complain, giving the price. But I think I'm going to go with a more reputable brand going forward, even if it costs a little more.

Connected well. Responds as expected.