While keyboards on the whole come in a variety of sizes and hefts, they tend to usually be at least as large as a notebook’s base. Thus it’s refreshing to see something completely different – a keyboard that has been designed to sit snugly in your hands. The Rii mini i8 does just that, resembling a console controller a bit, with curved sides. These have a slightly rubberized feel to them, which makes gripping the small keyboard a pleasure.
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Jun 02, 2017 Rii i8+ Mini Wireless Bluetooth keyboard / mouse for android smartphones, smart TV's, Windows PC with lights and dongle. If this video helped you, please support us for keeping our channel.
Beyond this, you will find a full (and I do mean full) keyboard, with seemingly no function left behind. As well as the usual QWERTY layout, back, delete, page up and page down, home, search and a dedicated browser button all make it onto the tiny keyboard. Did I mention there are also dedicated media controls, for play/pause, forward, backward and volume up and down?
A better mouse trap
Rii Mini Wireless Keyboard Manual
In short, the amount of controls that have been squeezed onto the Rii tiny i8 keyboard are commendable. Additionally, there is a very nice backlighting on all keys to boot, as well as a small but usable trackpad above the keyboard itself. This is quite responsive, if not quite as what you find on a dedicated notebook keyboard.
When it comes to mouse functionality, users have two choices. You can either access this on the trackpad, by using one tap for a left click or two taps for a right mouse click. If that doesn’t take your fancy you could also use the dedicated left click and right click buttons on the Rii mini i8’s far left side.
You can also navigate the mouse cursor via a D-pad, which enables you to move your cursor backwards, forwards, left and right )mimicking the directional keys). All in all, it makes for a familiar keyboard experience, albeit in a much more portable form.
Key essentials
The big difference of course, are the keys themselves, which are considerably smaller, but larger than that found on the physical keyboard found on old BlackBerry phones. If you had no problems compiling missives on those, you will have even less so here, so they are well spaced and have a nice firm and tangible click when pressed.
Thus, I found I made few if any accidental presses. No, my typing experience wasn’t quite as fast as I can reach on a large full sized keyboard, but it was still faster than pecking at touch sensitive keys on my smartphone.
But, who’s it for?
Renault megane 3 user manual pdf. So far, and so impressive. The only confusing part of the keyboard is what it works with. The Rii mini i8 (which is rechargeable using microUSB) includes a small dongle that is discretely housed on its underside. Plugging this into a PC, notebook, or some tablets that accommodate a full sized USB stick and pairs the keyboard wirelessly with the keyboard.
Granted, using the keyboard plugged into a notebook is fully feasible, although one would wonder why you would want to do this? Doing it plugged into a tablet makes more sense, especially for those that don’t have physical keyboard. Alas, the keyboard does not work without the dongle, which makes using it in conjunction with an iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tablet impossible. Had it connected and paired without hassle using just Bluetooth, it would have had more appeal.
Worthy consolation
However, where it really does shine is in conjunction with consoles (and apparently, Android TV Box and Google TV). I find it offers a much more elegant solution for entering text when using the PS4, PS3 and Xbox One.
After plugging the dongle into an available port, the connection between each of the consoles and the keyboard was instantaneous, and meant I was able to type longer messages, input codes much more elegantly than trying to do the same using the onscreen keyboard. Additionally, thanks to the D-pad on the Rii mini i8, it offered an alternative way to scroll through the user interface and access my choices on each of the aforementioned consoles. This made it my go to keyboard of choice to have close by during gaming sessions.
This alone makes the the Rii mini i8 a nifty and compact peripheral in its own right. It has a RRP of R370.
Compact, Plenty keys and features, Offers more convenient way to input text when paired with consolesUSB dongle precludes its use on non-supported tablets
In today’s day and age, people are turning more and more to digital sources for their entertainment. Gone are the days of renting a DVD or purchasing the latest CD which has not been replaced with streaming and download the latest movies and music via the internet. This is the main reason why media players are so common place in people’s homes nowadays. Media players give you a simple and intuitive way of accessing your digital content from the comfort of your couch, the problem however is that although the media players are simple and intuitive, the included remote controls are generally anything but. This is where companies such as Riitek come in. Riitek offers some of the most affordable and feature rich remote controls that are designs to improve your experience using media players. Today we are going to take a look at one of the most popular offerings from Riitek, the Rii i8+ keyboard. What makes this keyboard so popular? Let’s jump into our Rii i8+ review and take a look.
Rii i8+ Review – What’s in the Box?
Upon opening the packaging you will find the following inside:
- 1 x Rii i8+ Keyboard
- 1 x Receiver
- 1 x USB Cable
- 1 x User Manual
The Product
The Rii i8+ is One of the Most Popular Keyboards in the Market, and for Good Reason
Removing the Rii i8+ from its packaging I was instantly impressed with its size and weight. The Rii i8+ fits comfortably in your hands and you can tell that Riitek has thought carefully about its design. The i8 is lightweight but does not feel cheap at all. Riitek has clearly gone for a different design style with the i8 that is very different to what one would normally expect a remote control to look like. It is intended to be used easily with two hands with all keys reachable by your thumbs without needing to reposition your hands. The Rii i8+ plus keyboard is available in a range of colours including black, green, blue, white and yellow.
The Rii i8+ contains all the key functions that you should require for your media player and comes with a QWERTY keyboard layout that allows you to type easily. This is great as using a standard remote to type using an onscreen keyboard is a real pain. Also included in the keyboard are navigational keys, media control keys and mouse functionality.
One big plus side to the Rii i8+ is the inclusion of the trackpad. The trackpad makes it very easy to navigate your media player and is especially great to have when you are running an android app that int exactly designed to be used on the TV. Tapping the track pad once functions as a left click of a mouse, double tapping is right click and two finger dragging is for page scroll.
The Rii i8+ comes with an inbuilt battery that is rechargeable using the included charge cable. The i8+ charges quickly, taking only a few hours to fully charge and the battery life on the keyboard is fantastic.
Navigating the Android interface and controlling my media from within Kodi was easy and problem free. The Rii i8+, thanks to its track pad, allowed me to move the cursor around the screen and the touch gestures and physical left and right click buttons meant that I could interact easily with all elements on screen.
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