Home > Consumer Reviews > Logitech V550 Nano Cordless Laser Mouse for Business - Mouse - laser - 3 button(s) - wireless - 2.4 GHz - USB wireless receiver - OEM

Small, easily portable. I've ditched the full sized one I used on the desktop in favour of this one. My wife now takes it to work with her to use with her laptop, so that will be me buying another one. Just fit the batteries, remove the dongle from inside the mouse itself, (replacing it also turns the mouse off,) place it in a USB port,a few second on Vista and 7 away you go.

Works great for its reasonably cheap price, pointer movement is smooth and works well on all kinds of surfaces without stuttering or lagging. The receiver is really quite small and won't look out of place sticking out of your laptop, has a good enough range for most users and comes with a separate USB extension cable. I especially like the feel of the middle scroll button which has two settings, either free-wheeling or clicking depending on your preference, in either mode it has enough resistance to stop you scrolling accidentally while also having enough play to set it spinning with a sharp flick - perfect for reaching the bottom of those long pages or documents.

Battery life so far has been excellent and is monitored through the bundled software giving you the remaining power left in either percent or days, so far a month's near constant use has left me at 85%. It also comes packaged with three self-adhesive small metal plates which you can stick to your laptop and then attach the mouse to when it's not in use, doing so will also turn the mouse off.

The only flaw I can find is the batteries rest in the top of the mouse's casing with some free space beneath them, sitting like this it is too easy to jar them loose, but that's nothing a small piece of folded card can't fix.

Overall, a great mouse for its price and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a cheap replacement.

This was my first venture into wireless mouses, having been put off by the idea of recharging something I use so often but it seems to have come a long way in the last few years. The mouse turns off when it idles for 20ish seconds preventing it from draining though if you put it in a bag you might want to turn it off.
Which brings us to the whole idea behind it: Portability. I use this mouse with my eeePC netbook and it couldn't be better suited. It's small; about the size of a pack of tissues but not uncomfortably small in a man's hand. The laser gives it fairly good accuracy and sensitivity for what it is and it even copes well at playing games. The stubby little reciever barely pokes out of the USB port meaning you don't need to take it out, even to fit into a laptop sleeve. If you do want to remove it it fits into an easily accessible cavity within the mouse. What's more the reciever means it's not bluetooth, which I despise. Particularly on my netbook where I try to conserve all the power I can to avoid taking my charger around with me.
They have included however a bizarre little docking system for the mouse that seems at cross purposes with the whole 'nano' aspect. You can clip your mouse to your laptop monitor, preventing cases or sleeves from fitting and if you do put your laptop loose in your bag it'd just be jostled off the latch or get in the way of everything else. The whole idea of laptops is they're flat items. Mind you the mouse itself is smooth and rounded so in practice it might work, I just haven't dared put an adhesive metal button on my laptop. Even if it does come with a removal tool.

Ultimately theough I can't fault it for the docking thing because it's optional and you seemingly don't even pay for it! It is fantastic value for what you get, even compared to the other logitech devices. It has a nice scroll feel and changes to free-spinning with a push (the middle click gets bumped down to below the scroll wheel for this though). No extra buttons but I never use them anyway. The OEM version is black (my preferred), which doesn't seem to be a standard colour. The whole thing comes very nicely packed and you even get a little altoids type tin for the docking buttons and tool. The mouse is pretty light even with batteries but not so much it feels empty or plasticy, and you feel that the low cost has been achieved through innovation in the design rather than poor build quality. There might be better more complicated mice out there but if you need a simple portable mouse, you can't beat it for price.

Logitech V550 Nano Cordless Laser Mouse for Business - Mouse - laser - 3 button(s) - wireless - 2.4 GHz - USB wireless receiver - OEM

I've been very pleased with this product and find it far superior too using the laptop touch pad.Only thing is remembering to switch it off once finished using it.You can mount it on outside of laptop and then it switches of automatically but
not used that facility