Easy Zoom Control with Scroll Wheel and ctrl,Banalove mini Handheld trackball Multi-Media 2.4G Wireless Keyboard Combo for HTPC Home Theater Keyboard,Smart TV Multimedia Set-Top Box

Of all my different keyboards this is becoming my favorite. Besides having a nice feel on the keys it is laid out nicely with the roller ball under my right thumb and my left hand scrolling and right and left clicking. I do have one complaint though, if the roller ball and scroll wheel were on the same side it would be better for surfing.

I typically never NEVER write reviews but this is such a clutch product and there is no market for some reason for handheld keyboards. Why isn't this more of a thing!? But anyway I hope they become more popular. Sure you can't type faster on it, but it allows you to type anywhere and to reminds me holding a controller which is much more comfortable when lounging on a couch or bed. I am going to be testing this out for lazy coding sessions but in a way my productivity has increased because I don't have to worry about my posture as much. I am so bummed there just isn't market for these type of products but these need to be more of thing. I will send a picture hopeful when I am not feeling as lazy but I do strongly recommend this product for loungers and big kudos to this company for doing something niche and different in the boring bland sphere of keyboard and age of mass manufacturing we live in. For anyone else interested in seeking more handheld keyboards there is another brand that sells a similar product and theirs are a bit smaller with a mouse ball and bit different layout. I am actually typing this review using that other product and I plan to do a comparison of them both but I will be keeping them both.

I've owned two of these wireless keyboards over the last two years for use with my home-entertainment and home-office computers. The price is fairly low, and you more or less get what you pay for on them: The keyboard is adequate but a bit cramped. I'm a pretty big guy with large hands and poor eyesight, and more or less expected this; it's more comfortable than a tablet/phone keyboard, but not by a whole lot. I got used to it and touch-type on it with generally no problem, but it does make me miss using a full-sized ergonomic keyboard from time to time. Really the most awkward moments with it come from unusual keys and key combinations, which by necessity aren't placed where I'd expect them on a full-sized keyboard, requiring a close look in good lighting for me to find. It's fine for general home entertainment purposes and for writing emails, but maybe not as well suited for gaming and professional data entry, image and sound editing, etc. The ergonomics of the other controls are actually rather nice and comfortable for me - after a brief learning curve as my first trackball ever, I was able to manage the trackball/mouse features rather comfortably and easily. An actual mouse at a desktop is going to be more precise and effective for most of us, no doubt about it, but for an all-in-one controller I can kick back in my desk chair or on my couch and use away from a proper desktop, this is fine for me - the placement of controls and the ability to scroll and click the left-right trackball buttons with either hand without straying from the natural holding positions on the sides of the keyboard are just about perfect, really. The keyboard itself, as mentioned, is a bit small, but easy enough for even me to touch-type with, and fair enough for a compact lap-top keyboard, and the entire board is light enough to be quite comfortable to use away from a desktop. Battery life seems fair enough for a wireless keyboard; I can wish it would last much, much longer, but when I consider how much I use this board every day, I can't really complain about changing batteries once a month or so. The biggest downsides for this keyboard, giving it a three-out-of-five-star rating from me, begin with the trackball itself: in a dusty home environment, with fingers that sometimes handle pizza or snacks while using it, the trackball will stop working after a couple weeks (rough, stuttering movement, imprecise pointing, and a pointer that wobbles and moves around by itself) devolving into no movement at all), requiring the trackball to be taken apart and cleaned pretty regularly. This isn't hard to do - it's a tool-less disassembly, with a twist-off cap holding the ball in place; once the ball is removed, a cotton swab or paper towel with window cleaner or hand-sanitizer can be used to thoroughly wipe down the cavity where the ball sits, and the three tiny ball-bearings that the ball sits between to roll smoothly. The cleaning requirement is so frequent, I kind of suspect this could have been better designed to last longer between cleanings, and unfortunately those tiny ball bearings do pop out from time to time while cleaning, making the trackball even rougher to use more rapidly between cleanings. I bought some tiny replacement bearings and they are easy enough to replace (if a bit fiddly for big fingers), but no end user should have to do this. One might use this as an opportunity to criticize the cleanliness of the environment or grubbiness of snacking fingers, but honestly, I'm not THAT sloppy, and this isn't a device that seems to be marketed or geared toward clean-room usage, but instead a real world of home-entertainment use, no doubt by a family with kids: dust and grime are going to be expected in that environment, and this keyboard doesn't really handle it very well without regular cleanings of at least once a week. Then, there's the related issue of general durability and manufacturing quality: you get what you're paying for with inexpensive Chinese gadgets: soft, brittle plastic, cheap labeling paint, poor quality-control especially for the electronics hidden under the surface, a mixed bag on ergonomics and design, etc. For this keyboard, that means that the lettering wears off the keys pretty quickly, small bits like those aforementioned bearings popping loose from brittle and poorly-fitting sockets, trackball buttons going mushy and losing their spring eventually, and so on. I suspect that this isn't the sort of thing that will stand up well to your kids dropping it on a hard floor or hitting their brothers over the heads or any of the other things that rowdy kids do with "nice stuff" in real world living rooms. I feel like I've mostly taken care of the two I've been using and they've mostly held up over the last two years with just a little wear-and-tear, but I don't expect them to hold up to long-term use and abuse to eventually become family heirlooms or anything like that! (I can compare that to the old IBM PS/2 or Commodore VIC-20 I used to own: those old machines were built like tanks, were still working fine after a lot of childhood abuse up until I lost them in a move a few years ago, and would, I'm sure, still be working just fine today, 30 or 35 years after they were manufactured: sadly, we really don't pay for or expect that sort of durability anymore in a world where electronics have become virtually disposable after a year or so of even light-duty use... However, I think I would gladly pay a little extra for peripherals like this built to those sorts of sturdy, reliable standards!) With that in mind, if I could, I would be glad to pay a little more for something built in the USA, Canada, or at least Mexico, with higher quality standards to last a bit longer with less maintenance and better reliability and durability, but there simply do not seem to be very many options out there for this sort of device, and those that do exist, almost all seem to be similarly-priced and similarly-manufactured Chinese hardware that seems to suffer from similar problems, compounded by what appear to be less comfortable designs, so I'll probably stick with this brand when the time comes to replace these keyboards, for better-or-worse, as the "devil I know" with problems I'm familiar with and have learned to live with. Still, if Banalove could at least step up the durability and reliability of its trackball, without sacrificing quality anywhere else, they could boost this up to a 4-star review from me even if the improvement cost me a few bucks more....

You need line-of-sight, but apart from that, it's a decent keyboard. I use it with a mini-PC in an AV rack, so it didn't have line-of-sight and was nearly useless. However, I plugged it into a USB extension cable and hid the dongle under the amp, and that solved the problem. That aspect is a little disappointing, about 10 years ago I had a similar keyboard and the receiver was in a dedicated AV closet about 30 feet away, behind wiring, metal racks, etc ... and reception was perfect. But as the title says, there aren't really any similar options available on Amazon right now. The keyboard feel is awful, and it's all just too small to comfortably touch-type, but the layout of the mouse buttons and scroll wheel (HUGE bonus!) is really nice, particularly the extra left-click button in front. Somebody put a lot of thought into the buttons on this. The trackball feels cheap but it works. Helps to really dial-down the pointer acceleration in the mouse settings. I'd buy it again happily, it does the job for *occasional* usage on my home entertainment system's mini-PC. No way I could use this as any sort of full-time keyboard, though.

Installed the unit, moved the trackball no movement of my cursor. All keys were functional. Rebooted PC still no trackball. Reconnected multiple times, no track ball. Used the ID button, no trackball. Tried the sleep / wake up no trackball. Fit and finish. The battery door does not fit smoothly in the rear, it just out on both sides, even though its all concave to fit smoothly. Receiver is a nano and inserted correctly. For the money this is a very cheap feeling keyboard.

I like it, it works quite well, no surprises.

Since I started working from home at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, I've needed a keyboard I could use from my work chair, a few feet from my 32" monitor. So a wireless keyboard was a must. Until recently I had been using a Rii K22 wireless keyboard I bought from Amazon. It's pretty good and a good value too, but over time I kept running into little annoyances that finally made me decide to look for a new wireless keyboard. By far the biggest annoyance was its touchpad pointing device. While the Rii's touchpad was better than most, a touchpad is just not a good substitute for a mouse. It's too hard to position the pointer accurately, and whoever thought touchpad "gestures" were a good idea should be required to use nothing but a keyboard with a touchpad for a year, as I did, then see if (s)he still thinks so. I was constantly clicking things accidentally, sometimes with disastrous results! So I decided to look for a new wireless keyboard with a trackball as the pointing device instead, and after looking over several here at Amazon I settled on this one. The first thing I noticed was a bit of a disappointment. The keys are a little smaller than standard, which can be tough for a touch typist like me to use. However, they're not terrible and I found I could get used to them. Another little annoyance was the top row of keys with the F-keys. These are even smaller, making it really easy to hit the wrong one. So far I've just had to give up and look at the keyboard when using the top row. And another thing: I like to cross my legs and set the keyboard on my lap to type. But when I first tried that, I found the keyboard became unresponsive and the trackball became quite jerky. Turns out the radio signals come from somewhere under the space bar, and my crossed legs were blocking them! (Luckily I found an easy fix for that problem. I put the tiny wireless receiver on a USB extension cord and let it dangle down, near the floor. That lets the radio waves escape under my crossed legs and get to the receiver. The keyboard is much easier to use with this simple hack.) One last thing I noticed, which isn't necessarily bad - or good: this keyboard is surprisingly thick and heavy. It fits my hands well, but the weight might be a problem if you plan to hold it up with your hands for long periods. Better to just rest it in your lap, or on a surface like a TV tray. You can still slip your hands under it to work the trackball and buttons. But despite these annoyances, there are some nice improvements over the Rii keyboard. Most obvious is the trackball. It too takes a little getting used to, but the placement of both the ball and the buttons is well thought out. A little note: Amazon's two photos of this keyboard don't show all its features. There is a scroll wheel, but it's under the top left flange, so it's not visible in the photos. It's meant to be operated by your left index finger, while your left thumb operates the mouse/trackball buttons. It can also be "clicked" for that occasionally-necessary "center" button. (One problem I've had with the scroll wheel: when I use it, often it briefly scrolls the wrong direction for a bit before straightening itself out and scrolling the right direction. Banalove needs to work on that!) Similarly, under the top right there's a second "left" button. This lets you use the trackball one-handed, with your right thumb moving the ball and right index finger clicking. Other small improvements over the Rii are better placement of the right Ctrl button, inclusion of the little-used Windows "Properties" key, and - best for me - a separate Insert key. The Rii had Insert as Fn-F9, which I often mistyped as Ctrl-F9 or Shift-F9, sometimes with disastrous results. There's a row of multimedia function buttons above the top row of the keyboard. That's not my primary use (I use a peanut-shaped remote control when using my PC to watch TV or play video), but it's nice to know they're there if the remote fails. Some folks will appreciate the simulated numeric pad. Press Fn+Num Lock and the 7-8-9-0, u-i-o-p, j-k-l-;, and m-.-/ keys become the numeric keypad from a standard keyboard. (Some of the keys don't obviously change: 7-8-9-.-/ still type the same characters. But they send the numeric pad keycodes instead of the main keyboard keycodes.) The trackball is very sensitive (1000 dpi); I had to slow my mouse pointer down quite a bit to get good control of it. But having done that, it was quite a bit easier to control my pointer with the trackball than with that darn touchpad. Unfortunately my joy was short-lived. Often the trackball became very jerky and unreliable. Sometimes it wouldn't move the mouse pointer at all. The instructions say to clean the ball and area if this happens, but opening it for cleaning isn't easy - there is nothing on the retaining ring to grab onto - you just have to press hard while twisting counterclockwise, like one of those child-proof drug containers. Still, cleaning seemed to work, at least for a while, so I was OK with it. But about a month later (right after the Amazon return window closed), it started to become unusable again, and no amount of cleaning would help! I think the core of the problem is that it's an "optical" trackball. With mice, optical is an improvement over mechanical. But that's because you get rid of the ball! With a trackball, you can't get rid of the ball, and optical seems hypersensitive to the tiniest amount of debris getting in there. Hence, frequent cleanings and, eventually, unreliable operation. This keyboard needs two AA batteries. I haven't had it long enough yet to know how long they'll last, but it doesn't seem like a particularly high-drain device, so ordinary alkaline or rechargeable batteries should do fine. There's no on/off switch, but you can turn it off and on by holding the Fn key and pressing the left mouse button for a few seconds, hopefully extending the battery life.

Nice size and it works well