Logitech diNovo Mini
by Logitech
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Manufacturer: LogitechFormat: CD
Platform: Windows XP
Model: 920-000594
Color: Silver
Product features:
- Logitech diNovo Mini, USB Mini-receiver, Power adapter, CD with software, comfort guidelines and help center, User's guide, and Cleaning cloth
- Use as a touch pad to point and click or as a directional pad to navigate menus and make selections
- Makes text entry effortless even in low light with two different backlight colors- orange for cursor mode and green for media control mode
- Bluetooth 2.0 - Enjoy long-range wireless control from up to 30 feet away
- Thumb-operated keypad design
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Customer Review: Two years now and still love it
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had this now for almost two years, and while Logitech had to replace it with a new one (and it was a brand new unit, not a refurb), that doesn't lessen my favorable review.
I use this for my Media Center PC, in addition to a Logitech Harmony One remote. I also have the Mac thin bluetooth keyboard and trackpad for when I need to do "real" typing since this really isn't a good way to do normal typing.
My Harmony One is what I use mostly for the day to day work, but I don't like the phone style letters, for example when I'm trying to jump in my movie list. So for that I pull out the Dinovo Mini so I can actually type the name. I also use this for when I'm redoing the media center recorded shows, to convert them to an MP4 format to save space for my 7 year old's cartoons, to copy and paste the show titles from the descriptions into the file name for when I file them into the appropriate folders.
The construction is surprisingly well done, and a striking appearance. So small it fits easily anywhere, and the battery really does last a month between charges. Hinge is easy to open, and the buttons have a great positive tactile click so you know when one is depressed. I almost never have any failed input with them.
The touchpad works great, but you may want to increase the movement rate so that you don't have to slide your thumb over and over and over to get it to move across the screen. Even at about a 18 to 20 foot distance, with the receiver plugged into the back of my mac mini that I use to run Windows 7 Media center, behind everything in the cabinet, the signal is great.
Makes it so nice to be able to minimize my media center window, hop into internet explorer, and check my mail and such, or to jump into Explorer and look for that file I wanted that's on my home server.
There are only three programmable buttons for actions you can set yourself (I set mine to close program, open IE to my mail, and restart system), and one thing I found with the newer revision is that what used to be the green media center hot button in the bottom right is no longer media center, and cannot be changed, it just opens up media player... I assume that is because more people use it for things other than media center, so they didn't want to lock it to one particular less popular app... But it would have been nice if we could've changed that when desired.
It can also be used for the PS3 but I haven't tied it into mine at all as I really have no use for a keyboard on my PS3.
Every month or so I plug it in overnight to the charger, and I'm set for quite a long stretch of use.
My original had to be replaced about the 11 month mark because the mouse button no longer was working. Logitech was very good about the return, and I had a new one within a few days, no problems and no charge. This one has now gone for that long and a little more, and the button still works fine.
I did get the bluetooth mac keyboard and touchpad for when I want to do real computer things on here, but those are too large and impractical for just media use. And while this works well for media center or HTPC use, it's still not as practical as a full fledged remote due to the lack of programmability, but while it may not be my main input device for my normal viewing, it is essential for the times when I need to put down the remote and use a mouse. I've had many other keyboards I used before this, including the microsoft media center one that uses the IR conector, but none have been as convenient and easy to use as this for those times.
Well worth the price.
Description of Logitech diNovo Mini
Keyboard - 63 Keys - Silver, Midnight Black - Type A - USBDigital Cameras and Photo Categories
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