Microsoft Wedge Touch Mouse Surface Edition (3LR-00009)

I bought the Wedge Touch Mouse to work with an HP Pavilion 11x2 running Windows 8.1 It works beautifully for me. My hands are quite large, but gripping the mouse with my thumb and ring finger gives me complete control and I find the mouse very easy and comfortable to use. Mouse clicks are firm and obvious, and work anywhere within the clickable area (I am using the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center, but with the default settings). It works well on most of the surfaces I've tried (not glass, of course, and interestingly it won't work on the leg of my Jeans). It has a backpack-mode, which means I don't have to remember to turn it off when I stow it, it turns off automatically in the bag. This actually seems to work, although I don't know what the battery life will turn out to be in the long run. The Bluetooth reconnects almost instantly and the only lag I've noticed is with horizontal scroll on the Win8 Charm Screen. I really appreciate the ballistic scrolling, both up-down and left-right... I can scroll from the top to the bottom of a five page document with only one flick of my finger, and stop anywhere I want on the way.The only complaint I can make about this mouse is that when I run my CAD program (DesignSpark). using the scroll function to zoom in and out is clumsy. Since there are no detents on the scroll, I have trouble zooming in or out a single "click" at a time. Of course, the mouse is intended as a travel mouse, and running a CAD program on an 11" screen is pretty restrictive anyway, so I can't count this as a real negative.The price does seem to vary, though. I bought mine from Amazon three weeks ago for $37, It now seems to run from $42 to $60. So far as I can tell, the Surface edition is identical to the non-surface edition. The Amazon images for both show the silver sides. I had understood that the only difference between the two was the color of the sides. In fact while I ordered the Surface edition with the silver-sided image, what I got is a Surface Edition (according to the box) with black sides. This makes absolutely no difference to me, but if you're looking to get the silver sides, make very sure with the seller exactly what you're buying. And probably expect to pay more.As an aside, I connected this to one of my WinXP desktops, and it worked fine, including the ballistic scrolling. But it's not a particularly good substitute for a good desk mouse... it really is too small to be easily precise. It's intended for a netbook/tablet/mini-laptop with limited USB ports that gets carried around in a bag. For that, for me, it's great.

I bought this for my Fire tablet, so maybe it works better with Windows 10 than Android. That said, it works OK. I had wanted a touchpad mouse & thought that's what I was getting. But this does have to move to work. You can scroll up and down by moving your fingers up and down, but if you want the cursor to move around the screen, you have to move the mouse around. I wanted something to rest on my knee while my tablet was on the tiny airplane tray - there isn't a whole lot of room on those trays to move a mouse around.This paired easily with my Fire. You use it with the narrow end facing forward and the thick part under your hand. It's comfortable to use. And it's only $12, which for anything electronic that works is awesome! The price point is actually what made me give this 5 stars instead of 4. It's not exactly what I wanted. (I just re-read the product description, and it still says it's touch sensitive, and doesn't say you have to move it around, but since most mice are the moving kind, I'm not sure they really needed to say that. Maybe I'm the only one who's confused.) But even though I was confused, and even though I'm using this on an Android tablet, it's pretty awesome for the price.

I'll keep it short, this is a terrible mouse, right click registers as a left click all the time until you learn exactly where to click. Middle "wheel" is worthless, most of the time it barely registers my swipe, then I'll swipe it again since it didn't register and it acts like I want to go 14 pages. I even tried downloading the Microsoft software to adjust the settings, nothing changed.Both of those things I was willing to overlook for the ease of transport with this mouse, but the sleep feature is broken. It goes to sleep while I'm using it, and it powers itself on when I am not using it. The battery in it did not even last a month because of this, and the mouse is unusable for work/Minecraft due to it disconnecting every 10 minutes or so.