AMB03US Targus Bluetooth, good mouse but some quirks

Overall Rating2.672.672.672.672.67

good mouse but some quirks

this is my first review so i’ll keep it brief. I’ve used this mouse for over a month now. I use it for my home office and when i travel. I’m in cosulting so i travel a lot. I’ll list the pros and cons below.

Pros:
* Great battery life - last me 3-4 days of 9-5 use
* Easy to set up
* You can work while the rechargeable batteries charge (connected via usb)
* Good form factor (small, easy to carry, comes w/ a pouch)

Cons:
* It goes to sleep even with less than 5 seconds of inactivity. Can be very annoying
* On some occasions, i couldn’t reconnect with my laptop but haven’t figured out the cause yet

Update (2/10/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen. I also found some auctions for this item here.

The featured review for this product, Targus Bluetooth Laser Mouse AMB03US Electronics, was written by T.A.

The average rating for this item is 2.7 out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.

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Reviews (3)

Brett L. Schuchert

February 6th, 2010 at 10:13 pm    


Overall Rating11111

Features Great/Reliability Nearly 0
I’m on my third mouse. Mouse #1’s laser died after 6 weeks (very light travel). Mouse #2 seemed to just lose connection to my Dell XPS Gen 2’s built-in blue tooth adapter. Returned it, got #3, same problem as number 2. (Problems with both #2 and #3 happened before the mouse ever had a chance to travel.)

When this mouse works, it is GREAT. The feature list is great. Charging with a cable while using it works. Works on glass. Very hi-res, etc.

But WHILE I am using it, it loses connection. A simple power-off and power on reconnects it, but this makes it nearly useless as far as I’m concerned.

This is a mouse I really wish worked. If it actually stayed connected and worked, it would be a 5-star product. As it is, I give it 1 star because you cannot give it 0 stars.

Oh, and for the first return I actually had to file a complaint with the BBB to get them to process the return. On the second return, they mailed my mouse to the wrong address (I’m in Oklahoma, they shipped it to NY) and were never able to provide me shipping information until I threatened another filing with the BBB.

So their customer service was less that good. It’s really too darn bad, because I am genuine (not sarcastic) when I say if this mouse actually worked, it would be the perfect travel mouse.

Maybe they’ll get something working again in the future.
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Follow-up on 09/May/02…
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The third mouse “works” OK. It connects to my Mac mostly reliably. However, there is one serious problem with the mouse rendering it useless … it is aggressive on its power-save mode. If you do not move it for maybe 5 - 10 seconds, then when you do move it, there’s a noticeable delay before it wakes up.

I notices this both gaming and working. It’s worse working because I tend to type/read long enough between mouse uses that every time I touch the mouse it has to wake up. The idea is battery life, I assume, but it makes it really irritating.
Brett


T.A

February 19th, 2010 at 11:59 pm    


Overall Rating33333

good mouse but some quirks
Rated 3 stars.


Blue Tooth

March 12th, 2010 at 8:30 pm    


Overall Rating44444

seems like a good mouse to me
I got this mouse on sale at a local store and since it was quite inexpensive I thought I would give it a try despite some of the reviews I’d read here about it going to sleep and being hard to wake. I like the fact that the mouse can be recharged with a simple usb cable (and used with the cable while recharging). So far, my experience is that it is not going to sleep too soon and that a single click or moving the mouse wakes it. I am using it with a MacBook Pro, for what it is worth. I also find the shape of the mouse well contoured for my hand and it is very sensitive. I had to readjust the setting for how fast it tracked to slow it down a bit so I wouldn’t overshoot the text or button I was trying to acquire.

Perhaps Targus has updated the firmware on the mouse to overcome some of the initial problems or maybe there is a lot of variability in the product but my experience with it is thus far has been fine. I have used a lot of wireless mice and this one is working very well. My only “problems” with it are that it is a bit bigger than I would prefer for portability (although it is a good size for a desktop mouse) and I wish it came with two more buttons that I could program.


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