Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000

Comments about Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000:

This is a good keyboard but I would be better if it had a trackball or touch pad so mouse would not be necessary.

Comments about Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000:

I was attracted to this keyboard because of the small size coupled with complete set of keys and the detached keypad. I enjoyed the design and feel of the keyboard. I would have been very pleased if this keyboard were a standard wireless model. However, the bluetooth connection was a problem.

I tried this keyboard with an iMac with internal bluetooth and with a Windows laptop with a bluetooth dongle.

Setting up the connection on the iMac was easy but the keyboard kept disconnecting when it sat unused for several minutes. This resulted in a connection lost message that became annoying when it appeared in the middle of doing something else. Also, when waking from sleep it took many seconds and key presses before the connection was reestablished.

Getting bluetooth to work on the Windows laptop with the dongle was difficult but finally succeeded. However, the same periodic disconnection problem occurred and restoring the connection after sleep or hibernation sometimes required a restart.

Perhaps some of these problems have to do with bluetooth connectivity in general but it also seems as if the keyboard has been programmed to go into a disuse mode when idle that can cause effective disconnection. I was very disappointed because it is a great keyboard which I think would have worked without incident if it were standard wireless.