Rosewill RK-V1TP Wireless Keyboard Review

Multimedia Functionality

The Rosewill RK-V1T has ten small round dedicated buttons with clearly marked icons indicating their use. As shown in Figure 7, on the left side of the touchpad are keys for the following functions:

• Media center
• Media layer
• 3D Flip
• Next track
• Previous track

On the right side of the touchpad are keys for:

• Play/Pause
• Stop
• Mute
• Volume up
• Volume down

Figure 7: The dedicated shortcut buttons

These keys are all very useful when you are dealing with audio and video. We also found the inclusion of the 3D Flip button to be very useful.

Rosewill also includes several other shortcut keys. Seven of the Function keys also work as special shortcut keys when pressed while holding down the Fn keys. Most of these are quite useful. Each of the function keys that has a shortcut attached to it are marked with blue icons symbolizing their use, as shown in Figure 8.

Figure 8: The function keys

They include:

• Fn + F1: My Computer
• Fn + F2: Search
• Fn + F3: Calculator
• Fn + F4: Email
• Fn + F6: WWW
• Fn + F7: Favorites
• Fn + F8: Back

As mentioned earlier, pressing Fn + F11 is the BIND combination.

We really liked using this keyboard to control a computer that is attached to a television. Rosewill states that the keyboard will work up to 20 meters from the receiver. In our tests, we found that we could easily use the keyboard from the far point in just about any room.

After testing the keyboard in a multimedia setting, we decided to see if we could also use it as a keyboard for one of our work computers, which is a desktop computer with the mouse and keyboard in a keyboard drawer. As shown in Figure 9, without the need of a separate mouse and with the smaller width of the keyboard, it gave us a little extra space for stacking papers.

Figure 9: The keyboard on our pull-out shelf

The keyboard worked well as an everyday keyboard. The only problem that we had was that sometimes our wrists inadvertently hit the touchpad.  The keyboard had pretty typical pop-out feet, shown in Figure 10. The feet were about 1” (25.4 mm) high. We wondered if they could be made just slightly higher to make typing without contacting the touchpad just a little easier.

Figure 10: The keyboard feet

While we didn’t have the keyboard long enough to test the battery life, Rosewill states that the keyboard has a power saving technology with auto sleep that extends the battery life to  more than 3 months.