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

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 mouse is a true wireless mouse and for that, it gets five stars. I just ordered - and had to return - another after realizing it used a dongle. Yes, that one was technically wireless, but sorry my Mac just doesn't have that many ports, and they're the wrong size anyway. In any case, this one worked immediately and there's no set up/software. Put in the batteries, turn it on, enable Bluetooth to find it and you're done. No issues. And for around $10, this is a great buy. I'd prefer a smaller, lighter mouse but I'll live with this one as is just for the simplicity of it.

Quick fill order. Works well and looks well made. I was a little disappointed in the (large) size, which I wasn't able to determine prior to order. I should have done better homework... I won't return, because the coupon discount made it very reasonably priced.

Great little mouse for use with my laptop. Easy to use even on the couch cushion.

My old mouse was scrawling up and down when I was trying to scrawl down, a sign it was time to replace it.I purchase this Tecknet. I installed 2 AA batteries and easily connected it to my Bluetooth laptop. It was running within 10 minutes. Feels good and the pointer size and speed is where it should be.

The mouse connected to my laptop automatically when I turned on the mouse, it couldn’t have been easier. The grip is comfortable, and it was easy and handy to adjust the cursor sensitivity to my liking.I assume I have to turn the mouse off when not in use to preserve the battery. It would be more convenient if maybe it had an auto off, but the instructions don’t mention it.

This mouse works great. I've had the same batteries in it since I bought it and it's still going STRONG. It's super easy to set up. Connects easily. Stays connected. Very durable, I've dropped it 1000 times. I love the side button that will go back to the previous page. The scroll wheel is comfortable to my fingers. It supports my wrist decently if I'm sitting at the desk using it, but if I'm laying in bed trying to scroll, it isn't that great. But, IT IS SO LOUD. The clicking is SO ANNOYING. If you play the SIMS 4 and you click through outfits in CAS...do not get this mouse. lol

I like the larger size. Would be 5 stars if the scroll wheel could perform the left-right (web page back forward) motion. But it doesn’t.