HP Shipping a Mouse That Connects Using Wi-Fi

[fir_ser]

I hoped the price was a little bit lower.

 

[nebun]

why??? what we need is more Bluetooth mice....not this wifi crap

 

[upgrade_1977]

Just what I need, now I can use that to play STO through Splashtop on the ipad in the other room.

 

[fstrthnu]

"Honey, can you use the microwave later? I'm trying to use the mouse here!"

 

[eddieroolz]

9 months of battery!

Honestly this is a great idea for those that have netbooks or a Macbook. They always run low on USB ports.

 

[Guest]

until ,wireless n , it was a loss of performance to use other devices ,
multiple antena came in handy here , so what's next ?

 

[lathe26]

Wifi and Bluetooth were evaluated for mice and keyboards by companies like Logitech and Microsoft back around 2000. Back then, Bluetooth was the clear winner. Back then, Wifi chips were very power hungry, more costly, and physically larger, all of which were detrimental to creating battery operated, inexpensive, small devices. Wifi was years away from being practical for mice and keyboards. On top of all this, Bluetooth was better at latency (bandwidth is almost irrelevent to mice and keyboards). Back then, even though Sun Microsystems had produced a wired Ethernet mouse, there were jokes that a Wifi mouse would have to deal with DoS attacks.

This is why they (plus a few other companies) formed the Bluetooth HID work group in the Bluetooth SIG.

As always, technology moves forward and it looks like Wifi has (possibly) become practical for mice and keyboards. It will be interesting to hear about how well (or not) this mouse actually works once it is customers' hands.

 

[Guest]

After spending about an hour with HP support, 5 transfers, and being told to plug the dongle into another USB port(? it's a wifi mouse, right?) they determined that this product is unsupported unless it is with the laptop it cames packaged with.. Interesting since we bought it at Staples as an individual packaged product. No mention of HP only. If you get one and it connects, you're lucky, if not it's best to just return it.