Anker® Ergonomic Optical USB Wired Vertical Mouse 1000/1600 DPI, 5 ButtonsECOLOGO

I've had this mouse over a year now, still working great and saving me wrist ache! 100% would recommend. Sturdy, ergonomical, great accuracy!Only has one chip after a year, even though I throw it into my work bag once a week!

The best mouse I ever owned was a trackball, about 20 years ago. But I was lucky and found it very cheap, they normally cost a fortune. Second-best was probably the "nipple" built into an IBM Thinkpad.But out of the dozens of regular mice I've owned and used over the years, this is the best one! It's weird to use, for about a week then it fits like a glove. Much less strain than a normal mouse, they seem to have invented it to fit human hands and fingers properly, your fingers click and move it with a normal range of movement. Mice weren't originally invented with ergonomics in mind, and the history since the 1960s has just been them copying each other.But not these. The weird sideways design is really good! It's comfy, and I play a lot of games and do a lot of mousing. They're a good price, have 2 bonus buttons on the side, and a resolution-switch button as well. With a completely free program called X-Mouse Button Control, you can redefine the side buttons if you want to, I have mine as volume controls. But you don't have to.It's a good idea and they've made it well, would recommend.

Summary:- Very comfortable to use- All buttons easy to reach- Wheel quite stiff to click in- Can take a little getting used to- Really great value for moneyOverall I'm glad I bought this, it certainly is more comfortable to use than a regular mouse, although it doesn't come with any bells and whistles.Build quality:The build quality of this mouse is nothing to write home about compared to higher end mice, but when you consider the price of this then it's fair to say that this is value for money. It's fairly lightweight, and the laser seems to work perfectly fine. Only time will tell as to the longevity of the product.Design:The mouse has a curved red light on the inside of the mouse, where you place your thumb. I think that this is a quite a stylish touch, it adds to the overall aesthetic of the mouse. Other than this, it's a pretty minimalist looking mouse with a matte black finish. Honestly it fits in perfectly with my other components which are all black. Something worth considering is the height of the mouse, which is a little taller than a regular mouse due to the slanted design. As you can see in my images, the mouse just about fits in the drawer of my desk, but I can't really use it unless the drawer is pulled out. Finally, the mouse fits nicely in my hand. I would consider my hand to be pretty average in size for a man. If you have bigger hands then you might find the forward/back buttons a little difficult to access.Ease of use:I was actually quite surprised at how easy it was to adapt to this mouse. Not that it is perfectly easy - the fact that you are now applying pressure sideways onto the mouse to click rather than downwards means that you have to hold the mouse quite tightly so that it doesn't slide. After a few days this becomes second nature though. One problem which I'm finding harder to get over is the stiffness of the wheel button. I use the button a lot for opening/closing tabs on the internet and the pressure I have to apply to click it in means that I'm quite often moving the mouse off of the desired target by accident. This might improve with use, but it's annoying enough that I'm deducting a star.Price:One of the best things about this mouse. Anker could so easily push the price up just because of the word "ergonomic", but £10 for a mouse is more than reasonable under most circumstances.If you found this review helpful then let me know with a thumbs up! Likewise if you felt it was lacking then feel free to give thumbs down. Happy shopping!

I was originally looking for a reasonably-priced mouse that had a thumb and pinky-finger rest on either side, in order to stop my thumb / smallest finger from dragging on the mouse mat. Despite best endeavours, I couldn't find a conventional mouse like that (some of the photos on Amazon exaggerate the size of a mouse's thumb rest and I sent one back for this reason).That's how I ended up trying a vertical mouse. I spend 8 hours+ on the computer all day (for work) but have never really had wrist discomfort. But I thought a vertical mouse might achieve what I was looking for in terms of avoiding thumb//pinky contact with the mouse mat.When I first got the Anker vertical mouse I didn't really like it, despite immediately noticing that the angle of the hand (more vertical rather than horizontal) felt more 'natural'. I've been using it for about a week now and have perhaps adjusted my hand position on it somewhat, using my thumb and first finger (=left mouse button) a bit more like a claw (i.e. higher up the mouse). I'm finding using it is starting to come more naturally and I'm beginning to like it.FWIW, I have smallish hands (~18cms from the end of the wrist to the end of the longest finger) - I suspect it would be even more usable if my hand was a little bigger or the mouse was a little smaller, but I don't think it's a deal-killer.The mouse itself is very good quality, especially for the price. It has a matt, rubbery feel to it, the buttons make pleasing and consistent clicks and the wheel / centre button feels right. Pressing the wheel (centre button) works best once you've adjusted to the angle of the mouse and are pressing it in the direction of the switch movement - again, takes a little getting used to.Mouse manufacturers like to have a led cutout to make the mouse more 'sexy' and this one has a red one, roughly outlining where the thumb would go. However, it's not too bright and in my dimply lit office could just be mistaken for red paint. So shouldn't be an issue.Overall, this is a great mouse for the price and well worth a try if you're looking for an economically priced vertical rodent.FINALLY, can I say that this mouse is ridiculously over-packaged in single-use plastics? There is a clear plastic box. Inside that is another clear plastic moulding enclosing the mouse, which rests on a cardboard box, containing the mouse cable and instruction leaflets. In this day and age, with growing awareness of the plastics issue and where, presumably, most of the product sales are online, why, oh why, can't they package this item more environmentally sensitively? (I did email the company about this and recommend that, if you share my outrage [over-statement!), you write to the company too [[email protected]]. I got a nice reply but obviously they're only likely to change if enough people complain.)** UPDATE AFTER 3-4 MONTHS USE **OK, I have to own up to buying a Logitech MX Master for Amazon, which was recently 'on-deal' at a big reduction, to replace the Anker vertical mouse. Yes, it was still more than 3 times the price of the Anker. However, and this is obviously a purely personal experience, I found that although the vertical mouse was definitely more comfortable for my wrist I just couldn't get the accuracy, even after 3 months of ~8 hours a day computer use. This was down to me and not the fault of the mouse. However, since I got the Logitech MX Master for Amazon I've fully recovered my close mouse control. So, a vertical mouse is probably not for me, though I don't regret trying one and the 'entry cost' is pretty low.