Hausbell ® Mini H7 2.4GHz Wireless Entertainment Keyboard with Touchpad for PC, Pad, Andriod TV Box, Google TV Box, Xbox360, PS3 & HTPC/IPTV (Black)..
Buy Hausbell ® Mini H7 2.4GHz Wireless Entertainment Keyboard with Touchpad for PC, Pad, Andriod TV Box, Google TV Box, Xbox360, PS3 & HTPC/IPTV (Black) By Hausbell
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82 of 89 people found the following review helpful.
What's not to like?
By sweller
It works on everything I've tested it on: Antique Dell 370 with XP, Raspberry Pi with Openelec, and a new HTPC with Win 7 HP. If my toaster was web-enabled, I believe I could control that, too.
Pros:
1) It just works!
2) Excellent battery life.
3) Comfortable, rounded edges.
4) Very light-weight.
5) Excellent RF range.
6) Multi-mode operation (once you figure it out).
7) Firm (almost too loud) button clicks.
Cons:
1) The touchpad has a grainy, almost sand-papery texture. You'll either llike it or you won't.
2) The LEDs are too bright.
3) Extremely sparse documentation.
4) Automatically shuts off after 30 seconds to conserve power (I keep my left thumb on the Fn key). With the battery life this has, it's really unnecessary. Also makes the Charge LED rather pointless.
Other thoughts:
Obviously, it's not perfect. If you're have RF range problems, think I-Phone. The most difficult media for RF to penetrate is water. Your body is predominantly water. Try holding it differently. If I cup it with both hands, the range falls off drastically and the keyboard gets squirrelly. But while I was giving it an initial charge, it paired up with the dongle from 60-odd feet away through a brick wall. I'm looking for the firmware. If/when I find it, I'll post a link here. If someone else finds it first, I'd appreciate the same. Just a few tweaks and this thing would be a five star item.
EDIT: I just couldn't resist, so I took it apart. It uses a trace antenna that's on the extreme upper-left as you're looking at the keyboard. I wanted to know what the pinhole in the lower-left was for. Some similar models must come with a microphone. There's a place molded into the plastic for one, but no microphone.
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this over the candy-bar style. Unless you just want a laser...
89 of 104 people found the following review helpful.
you wont be disappointed....
By T. Thai
So I did a little research online on the wireless mini keyboards and saw that a few of them offer the same features, bla blah blah...so being skeptical, I decided to go with the Hausbell, 14.99 you cant go wrong...if its a bad product, I just lost 15 bucks, if its good, I will buy it for my other systems at home...the other mini keyboards go for around $25-$45 dollars so from the get go, I was not expecting much from this...I received the order in about 1 week with free shipping and tested out the first day I got it. I was shocked how well it works. I haven't tried the other mini keyboards, but I dont care for it as:
1)the price is half of what the others cost
2)its does the job...It does all that I want a mini wireless keyboard to do.
That is all...I dont write much reviews...but this is a steal for the price. XP and Windows 7 is just plug and play , no driver installation needed. The key baord is big enough so you can type with minimal mistakes. There is a reason why this product is getting all 5 stars..it works well..it works really well for the price.
I especailly like the pad...on the let side, you can navigate the mouse, on the immediate right, is a cool scroll feature...Any issues, I will try to update here.
43 of 55 people found the following review helpful.Hausbell Remote used with Linux XBMC
By Daniel Schnickels
First off, my tech level is pretty high. I would say 8-9 out of 10.
When looking for a new remote to replace my standard WMC remote, I wanted one with a full keyboard, and specialty button designed for ease of use on a HTPC. This remote seemed to meet my requirements, though I was left a little worried about other user's reviews.
Ease of Use
I use UbuntuXBMC for my HTPC in the livingroom (I am a Linux guy). This was as simple as plug and play. No need to install drivers, luckily, as the package did not come with any. And I personally hate scouring the Internet for the correct drivers.
Range
A lot of people have complained about the range of this thing. My couch is about 15 feet away from my TV, and as long as it is pointed in the general vicinity of the box, it appears to work. I have even used it in the dining room, which is about another 5-8 feet away, and it seems to work. This isn't even on a full charge. Although, if you point it in the opposite direction, it some times gets a little sporadic.
Battery
I have had this remote for about 1 month now, and I have never charged it. It came charged, I don't know how full, and it is still working. I do not turn it off when I am done with it, however it does go into a sleep mode. Side note, people often fall under the spell that you must charge you batteries completely prior to using them or they won't get a full charge; this was meant for only NiCad batteries.
Sleep Mode
If you leave the remote for a minute, it automatically falls asleep. Sometimes I like this, come times I don't. When you press any button it wakes up. The good part about this is if you are laying down with the remote, you don't have to worry about touching the mouse portion on accident. The bad part about this is that anytime you want to do something, you have to hit an extra button. Meh...
HTPC Buttons
The specialty buttons, that make this remote designed for HTPC use, kind of suck. First off, there is no stop button. Why?.. You can, and will have to, resort to pressing the skip to end button, in the upper left (by the play), to get to the end of a video to exit from it. One of the nice things about XBMC is that you can exit a movie by pressing stop, and when you play it again, it gives you the option to resume it. The remote kind of voids that feature. Most of the buttons you can hold and it will execute that button over and over until you release the button. Most because that does not include the volume button. You want to turn the volume way up, or way down, you have to click that button like 25 times.. Annoying.. There is no information button. The home button does not bring you to home, but to the menu after that. So if you are in Videos >> Add ons >> whatever and you press the home button, it brings you to Videos. There is no back button, just a backspace button that works pretty much the same. But its not easy to find without looking at the remote, so that sucks.
Quality
This remote isn't heavy duty, but it's also not heavy. It isn't flimsy either. My old WMC remote weigh more, and was a little more heavy duty. That said, I am not scared to drop this, or toss it across the couch to someone else. The lightness is actually a pro, as there is no strain in holding this thing for long periods of time.
Other
The light... ARGHH.. So whenever you press a button, this light flashes. When its dark, and your watching a movie, having a light flash in your face whenever you turn up or down the volume, or anything else, is EXTREMELY annoying. I am probably going to take it apart and bypass the light. The light is quite bright..
When I first got this remote, I thought mine came without the USB receiver part. They actually send it tucked into the back of the remote in the battery compartment. There is tons of space in the box, but I guess they didn't want to waste that space??.. And wanted to try and confuse me. Lol.
Overall
I think this remote tries real hard to be something it just isn't. Everything works fine, it is just that the remote isn't set up intelligently. It needs a back button. It needs a stop button. The layout (looks great) but feels odd in the hand. I give it 4 stars because it works better then I thought it would in all the areas I was worried about (range, quality, ease of use), however I will be buying something else as you have to resort to looking at the remote to use all the functions, and you shouldn't have too.
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