Banalove 2.4GHz Wireless Mini Portable Keyboard with Built-in Trackball Mouse Combo, HTPC/Smart TV Multimedia Keyboard (Black)

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.

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.

Great quality and craftsmanship. Fast shipping and best product over all other brands.

The media could not be loaded. Connects no problem, keyboard works great, but the trackball... it is extremely unstable and just moves all over the place, making it impossible to actually use. Check out the attached video. Going to try to get it replaced with another one, but since there's several other negative reviews due to trackball issues, I don't hold out a lot of hope...

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....

No problem out of the box. Being a trackball guy, I found the keyboard layout easy to use. I edit a lot of photos and this keyboard simply works for me. The trackball is so handy and in the right spot. A little small but I am able to use it without any software adjustments to slow it down. I will buy it again if need be.