Windows Phone Thoughts: Hey Martha! Get the Cat, There's a Mouse on my Pocket PC! (Stowaway BT Travel Mouse Reviewed)

The batteries (two AAA size, which are included) are inserted in a compartment in the end of the mouse. You open the battery compartment by pushing (or pulling) backwards on the dimples at the top of the cover away from the mouse.


Figure 5: The battery compartment for the mouse is revealed by sliding the cover toward the back of the mouse.

According to Think Outside, the batteries should last ‘several weeks’ when the mouse is used between 3 and 4 hours a day. I’ve been using the mouse at work, about 8 hours a day, for the last three weeks and the battery notification still shows as normal. UPDATE – just at the end of the third week, I started getting ‘Battery Low’ notifications. Think Outside has done a good job of integrating these messages with the system functions, since the low battery messages show up in the top line of the Today screen. (Sorry, I wasn’t able to get a screenshot.)

Drivers for the keyboard come on a CD which runs the installation routines as soon as it is inserted. To install the drivers, you need a PC connected to your Pocket PC via Activesync – either direct USB or Bluetooth. Everything proceeds pretty automatically from the install routines on the CD. You can also download the driver installation applications and User Guide from Think Outside’s Website.