Brando Rii Mini Bluetooth Keyboard with Touchpad Review

Others/Mice & Keyboards by stefan @ 2010-09-19

The Rii Mini Bluetooth Keyboard with touch pad from Brando is a multifunctional device that helps a lot during presentations, and also incorporates an easy to use laser pointer. The product can be easily recharged with the help of the included USB cable. You can use it with your iPhone, or as remote control for a HTPC.

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A Closer Look Part 2

In the top left corner, we can find the activity LEDs, but also the button with the Bluetooth logo on it, which must be pressed once to synchronize the keyboard with the device we want to control; the activity LEDs are for Caps Lock, Power(solid green when synchronized and blinking during a synchronization), Charging (red LED which stops when the battery is fully charged) and Activity (which blinks when the keyboard is transmitting data):

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An interesting function on this keyboard has the Enter button, which, when the “Fn” button is also pressed, it can act like when pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL:

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On the back of the keyboard, we can see only 3 icons, representing the main functions of the product: keyboard, touchpad, laser pointer:

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On one of the product sides, we can see a little button which, when pressed, lights up the laser pointer:

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The laser pointer can be found on the right lateral of the keyboard:

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On the opposite side, we can see the USB port for charging the device and the ON/OFF switch:

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The USB Bluetooth dongle has a red/black theme, but no other inscriptions can be found on the sides; the good thing is that it occupies very little space and we can plug it in a spare USB port and leave it there:

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The projected laser pointer looks different on the surface, depending on how much light we have in the room; it is powerful enough, because I have tried to put the pointer on the building nearby (30 meters away) and it worked perfectly:

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If the room where we need to do the presentation does not have a lot of light, we can enable the LEDs underside the keyboard, so it won't be a problem operating the keyboard, even in those conditions; it is necessary to say that the backlight won't be able to be used if the device is not previously synchronized:

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Comment from Oberon @ 2010/09/20
I need to get one of these for my HTPC.
Comment from Stefan Mileschin @ 2010/09/20
Good choice! The build quality does not feel cheap at all.
Comment from StrongDemon @ 2010/09/24
That's really neat. Is there anything like this that'll work with just a regular computer? I usually watch stuff through my laptop plugged into my TV and would love a nice wireless way to control it better.
Comment from jmke @ 2010/09/24
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work with just a regular computer?
this works with any PC that has a spare USB port (to plug in the bluetooth adapter, or use the build in adapter of your lappy)

 

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