Logitech Tablet Mouse for Android 3 1

There's not much to say about this mouse except that it does what it needs to perfectly. It's a basic bluetooth mouse, with the top where the hand goes in a metallic blue color and the rest of the body in that black soft-touch rubbery plastic. It is small as it is meant to be taken for travel but it isn't uncomfortable. I have very large hands and it is the right size for this kind of mouse, though for long-period mouse use or for gaming on my PC, I obviously need something quite bigger, but for an average person, this should be more than enough. The scroll wheel goes both up and down as well as to each side. The mouse, like all Logitech mice, is ergonomically shaped and is comfortable. It uses a precise Performance Laser (848nm) as the tracking mechanism, which allows you to use this mouse on almost any surface and have it track perfectly. The mouse is powered by two AA batteries, which add some weight to the mouse, which I personally prefer. I don't like featherweight mice that fly out from under your hand every time you move. I use this mouse with my Nexus 10 and Motorola Xoom tablets, as well as my Galaxy Nexus phone. I highly recommend this product. I have noted that it is more and more difficult to find a straight up bluetooth mouse these days, because Logitech and all the other manufacturers are starting to use their own proprietary, RF, or "Unifying" wireless receivers, so for anyone who wants a good, reliable bluetooth mouse, this is the one to go for. Since it is made specifically for tablets, it doesn't come with a USB bluetooth dongle because all mobile devices have built-in bluetooth. So if you want to use it with a laptop or desktop, you can do so if your computer has built-in bluetooth or if you have another usb bluetooth dongle, which you can get for very cheap here on Amazon. Read more

Connects to Nexus 7 but is unreliable. Sometimes it works okay but most of the time the cursor lags mouse movement, then jumps, and it is useless as a pointing device. Very disappointed. Only time it seems to work is when there is no other Bluetooth "in the air" which isn't often given that I wanted to use it with a Bluetooth keyboard. Read more

The build quality for this mouse is excellent and feels great in the hand. It paired and connected to my MacBook Pro laptop very easily. The same was true for my Samsung Galaxy 7 Plus tablet. It works flawless with my laptop computer. However, I did encounter a problem when utilizing the mouse with my Android tablet. The scroll wheel works for any Android screen that has a display longer than one page. In essence, it scrolls up and down just fine EXCEPT when a screen display is associated with the Internet. Moving the scroll wheel in either direction causes no movement in the screen display when surfing the Internet. Has anyone else who has purchased this mouse experience this same problem? If yes and you overcame the issue, could you explain what you did? Read more

At least the refurbished version of this mouse is a complete waste of time and money. In any place where there are lots of bluetooth devices, it behaves like a teeny-bopper at a rock star convention: it can't decide where to plug into next. In contrast, the Logitech bluetooth keyboard is completely stable under all anbient conditions. Read more

I bought this product to use with a Galaxy Tab 10.1" tablet. Wishful thinking got me expecting complete functionality for the various buttons and the scroll wheel. The reviewers who've said there's nothing Android-specific about the mouse are right. Logitech says "for Android 3.1+". This would be more accurate: "works with Android 3.1+." What works... single- and double-clicking with either button or the scroll wheel: same result as you'd expect from single- and double-tapping with a finger. Scroll wheel: scrolls web pages, pages within a text editor, long scrolling lists within menus. Clicking and dragging: same as dragging with a finger. What doesn't work: Separate functionality for the left and right buttons? Nope. Left- and right-"tilt" of the scroll wheel? No effect. The ability to scroll with the wheel is definitely handy -- likewise, the mouse's ability to target scroll-arrows and scroll bars precisely -- something that can be difficult to do with a finger. This precision makes working with web-forms much easier than it would otherwise be. (No luck dragging scroll _handles_, though. Oh well.) Flaws: The mouse pointer sometimes takes as long as 20 seconds to appear while a web page is loading. Why this would be, I don't know. Bit of an irritation with slow-loading pages. On occasion the Bluetooth connection fails. Getting it back has required going through the full pairing procedure. Now that's irritating. My Zagg Bluetooth keyboard has no such problems. One full star off for extremely poor documentation as supplied with the product -- not even minimal information about pairing (I already knew how; someone new to using Bluetooth might have trouble figuring it out). The "information" in the Getting Started pamphlet shows, but doesn't even bother explaining when to use, the small Connect button on the underside. For crying out loud, why not? What, are we saving ink here? There's a web page whose URL appears in the pamphlet: "for Bluetooth setup instructions for your tablet." Wrong. The PDF you can download from that page is identical to the noticeable-in-its-absence information in the minimalist paperwork supplied with the mouse. Adventures In Discoverability: the real-world pairing information is actually on one of Logitech's FAQ pages: [...] [EDIT: looks as if Amazon scrubbed the URL. Look at the Logitech FAQ page -- easy enough to find -- for the link to the 'how to pair' topic.] That they would have omitted so much information, when it would have cost them nothing to include it, is inexcusable. Shame, Logitech. Take a lesson from Zagg, whose (supplied) documentation for paring its Bluetooth keyboard does the job quite well. So the thing works and, despite its limitions, will be useful when I'm using the tablet on a stand. No doubt it will be much more useful when it's paired with a laptop or Bluetooth-enabled desktop system. (Well, unless its irritating habit of losing the connection persists.) Just don't expect complete functionality in Honeycomb. Wonder if it's any different in ICS... [EDIT: a friend with a Motorola tablet has also had mixed success with mice. He reports the same problems I've observed: pointer freezes, disappears, takes a while to reappear. He figures it's a problem generally with mouse support in Android. Beats me...] Read more