Bluetooth mouse? anyone try the Logitech MX900 Bluetooth Optical Mouse

I have a Microsoft BT mouse that works just fine with the internal BT so I would expect the Logitech would do the same.  It is very handy having a completely cordless mouse, however (always a 'however'...), their battery life is terrible. 

Using the highest mAh rechargeable AA batteries that I could find I still get only around 3 weeks of normal usage between charges with the MS mouse.  I also have the wireless/USB version of the Logitech MX900 on my 'desktop' i8100, and I can get barely 2 weeks out of it between recharges.  The main reason for this is that they never completely turn off (and there is no button to manually turn them off). 

Ergonomically I like the MS mouse a bit better as it fits my hand a bit more comfortably; although it is a tad more bulky.  The Logitech does have 3 additional programmable buttons that are lacking on the MS mouse, and I find myself missing the 2 scroll buttons especially when I'm using the MS.

So, besides dealing with changing/recharging batteries every couple of weeks, I don't have any other major complaints.  The MS BT mouse takes a second or two to connect sometimes, but that is a pretty minor issue in my book. 

I just wish that BT stereo headphones were a possibility...

Yeah I have the MX700 for my desktop and I think it is the best mouse I have owned to date (very accurate and smooth). Guess I'll try the MX900 and post back.

"I just wish that BT stereo headphones were a possibility..."

That would be great!!!

 

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@Firtol88 wrote:

Yeah I have the MX700 for my desktop and I think it is the best mouse I have owned to date (very accurate and smooth). Guess I'll try the MX900 and post back.

"I just wish that BT stereo headphones were a possibility..."

That would be great!!!

 

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Second that. And have a greatest battery life. In fact it's sold with rechargable ones and hub also acts as a charger. New MX900 is exact copy of MX700 but with bluetooth technology. I placed my order for new bluetooth keyboard/mouse duo as soon as I've heard about them (more than a month ago). Unfortunatelly they are not available yet. May be by the end of Nov.

I got my MX900 last week.   I have notice the same problem with the drivers.  Without the hub plug in, it uses a standard microsoft hid mouse driver.  So you only have the basic fuctions to set.  You can't reprogram your scroll buttons and back n forward buttons.    After I played with the settings a little bit in the bluetooth advanced configuration.   It is discovering the mouse when I bootup 9 times at of 10.   If it don't pick it up right away.  I will just toggle the radio signal off n on.  At first it would not remember my settings on pointer speed.  But now it is all the time.   I think Logitech needs to step up here and make some drivers that will work directly with any bluetooth card and not just there hub.   I use the hub on my desktop so I can have bluetooth on it.   I was messing around with it yesterday and was able to transfer files back in forth through bluetooth file transfer.   With the minor driver problem I am keeping my mx900.  It is really nice to be portable moving around with the laptop and not having something plug into the back hanging around.   Also I found ecost.com having the best deal at 75.99 with free shipping.   All though they get you with 3.95 shipping and handling fee.

I bought an MX900 without reading it was not supported for Win98SE.

First it refused to install, then I launched manually the BT installation program from the CD. Then I get a very strange situation: no bluetooth device is detected by the Widcomm program but the mouse works perfectly as a MS HDI mouse (only the forward button does not works).

Nevertheless, nor my Palm T nor my Siemmens S-55 detect a new bluetooth device.

=> Very strange, how can the mouse works and at the same time the others bluetooth devices do not detect anything???

Any idea?

André