Easytone I8 Backlight Touchpad 2.4G Mini Wireless Keyboard & Mouse Combo Multi-media Portable Handheld Keyboard for Google Android Devices (Smart TV,HTPC,TV Boxes, PC/Mac) Black

See the bottom of this review for addressing some quarks with this keyboard, including sudden loss of connection.Overall this remote keyboard is pretty nice, providing nice functionality with lots of options, including volume control, shortcut keys for common programs and 3 ways to perform a mouse click (mouse pad, left/right of touch pad, and two buttons located on the left side of controller). The touch pad supports two finger scrolling, but I haven't been able to use any other gestures like zoom. The back light illuminates the entire keyboard, allowing for easy nighttime typing, and the keys are rubberized and provide a nice "click" like an old style PDA. Unfortunately ALT functions are not illuminated by the back light, so keep that in mind.There are some flaws and annoying aspects of this remote which although minor, are worth mentioning:The key coating will wear out fairly quickly, as I already see tiny flecks falling away after just 3 weeks of use. Expect key button wear to become noticeable after extended use. The spacebar and ENTER buttons are larger than the other keys, but each still have the single small switch on the keyboard matrix, which means you have to press them directly in the middle. The sides of the spacebar and ENTER key will just depress, but not register input.Design: A bit bulky (like an original Xbox Controller) and made of smooth plastic. Smaller hands may experience some difficulty using this remote keyboard. Add grip tape to the sides to increase comfort while using. The keyboard layout has a few odd choices for key placement like only having a left SHIFT and += being located at the bottom left, but most keys found on a standard keyboard are represented on this remote model.Battery: The battery is a type BL-5C rechargeable lithium. At 300 mAh it is pretty low end and won't last long if you keep the keyboard back light on constantly. Fortunately you can upgrade it fairly cheaply, and it recharges quickly. Turning off the back light will stretch the included battery for quite a long time. The battery compartment is clearly designed to incorporate either the BL-5C or two AAA batteries which is determined at some point in manufacturing. Depending on the brand you buy, your power source may vary.The touch pad is a nice feature, but it is cheap, and offers terrible accuracy. You'll experience difficulty getting your screen pointer to go exactly where you want it to. The right side of the touch pad has a scroll function, but it only seems to have "hyper-speed" enabled which will cause your screen to wildly fly up and down. It is so sensitive, I had to cover it with black duct tape so I wouldn't keep accidentally hitting it and losing my place on a webpage.An issue with this keyboard occurs when accidentally hitting the RF button (Fn + F1), which is located next to the back light button (Fn + F2). I am still confused why the RF button exists. The "Instruction Manual" doesn't discuss any of the keyboard's functions, and hitting this button seems to just suspend the keyboard's connection with the USB dongle. Pressing the button again does not reconnect the keyboard. If this happens to you, try switching the keyboard off/on and then give it a few seconds. If that fails to make it reconnect, turn off the keyboard, disconnect the USB dongle, turn on the keyboard and then plug the dongle back into the receiving device. If the keyboard only works when in very close proximity to the dongle, press the RF button and normal operation should resume after 5 seconds. No idea why it does this.There are also other colors you can use than just the simple RBG. If you press and hold the Fn+F2 button and tap parts of the touch pad, you can get colors like ice blue, neon yellow, purple and pink. Pressing other buttons while doing this sometimes creates interesting color combos. Feature or bug? I haven't deduced any rhyme or reason to this, but it keeps the color even after turning off the keyboard!Final thoughts: Despite its flaws, this keyboard provides a lot of convenience where a traditional mouse & keyboard would prove impractical. The instruction manual is your basic small Chinese tri-fold paper that doesn't provide any useful information, but plenty of comical misspellings and grammar. You're on your own to solve any issues or to figure out features. Perfect for using while relaxing in bed or while kicking back on the couch. There are better remote keyboards out there, but for the low price, this one is hard to beat if you don't mind the flaws mentioned.

This is a great product for the price!! The product arrived as expected. It's so simple to use.P.s. I'm on vacation, so I can't rate the battery just yet.Hope this helps! It's just plug and play! Yes that easy!The controls worked perfectly, even the shortcut buttons, well expect for the internet explorer shortcut, but that's not even an issue. The manual only states three colors you can change between, but you can actually change between the rainbow colors! Press fn and f2 buttons at the same time, hold then down and scroll from left to right on the touchpad. That will scroll through the rainbow colors. The touch pad works perfectly. You can scroll and click as easy as a computer mouse. You may have to adjust how fast or how slow you prefer the mousepad to scroll up and down a page or you can just press the page up and down buttons on the right side of the Mini Keyboard. The last thing and this is small to me, but the buttons are slightly tough when typing. But that's something anyone can get used to, after using the Mini Keyboard throughout the day. Also, just fyi, if you hit "shift" then "caps", it locks the caps button. Hit the same to unlock the caps. I highly recommend this for those that need a wireless touchpad keyboard for your PC. Now I can stand and work while using the Mini Keyboard, instead of sitting down for 8 hours a day in front of my work computer.

This is for my laptop that the lid remains closed on while it is operated as part of my television system. The touch pad is annoying like the laptops touch pad , but functional. Battery life is fair, no complaints. The dongle that plugs into the USB port pairs instantly, however there has been times that it stopped working and had to be reseated (unplugged then plugged back in), it could be my luck since I have had zero trouble with the original item as soon as a replacement was sent. Three stage lighted keyboard a major plus, in my opinion, that in itself sets this item above other similar ones. The unit itself is no bigger than my hand. A Value? yes, I am satisfied with the product.

Well I love this little thing! I am sitting on my couch in front of my tv as I right this with the keyboard in fact. It has made a great addition to my HTPC and its just been a great convenient experience for me.I like how the buttons are "clicky" and it has a built in little mouse with a track pad. I have a wireless mouse to but some times when I am just lounging on my couch and I don't wanna move, it's just nice to have in one device. I like that it has different colors for the back light but most of all I like that I can choose a red backlight because when all the lights are off I can look at my keyboard with out ruining my night vision. Its pretty bright.The battery holds a good charge. I also love the d-pad on this thing. Makes it real easy to edit text. I can hold shift and use the d-pad to select letters for editing. Its a full key board. Great for web browsing and writing comments on youtube while I sit on my couch. Its nice to have complete control of my computer from my couch with one simple device. I find my self using the page up and page down keys a lot to navigate web pages. very convenient. The track pad also lets you tap it to click on things.I tried hooking this up to my playstation 4 and it works. its limited is functionality though. the mouse didn't work on the ps4, well sort of. I pretty much could only use the letters. Nothing fancy. The mouse worked kind of on the ps4's web browser... sort of, but not in a usable fashion really. I also tried it on my smart tv. It actually worked a bit better then on the ps4 but still limited. Usable though.

I used this and another connection for my Amazon Fire Tv. The remote made everything so slow. This is perfect and the battery life is insane. I’ve never had to charge it. I just throw a USB in when I think it’s been long enough but the battery is unearthly.