Burhoo K808 Mini Wireless Keyboard with Touchpad Review: Pocket-Sized TV Control

You know the moment: your laptop is hooked up to the TV across the room, and every time you want to change what is playing you have to get up and walk over to it. The Burhoo K808 mini wireless keyboard with touchpad exists to solve exactly that. It is a keyboard, a mouse, and a few extras shrunk into a body about the size of a small phone.

I paired it with a phone over Bluetooth, then with a computer, and dragged the cursor across a 35-inch ultrawide to see how far one swipe would carry. This keyboard review covers what the K808 does well, where the trackpad runs out of road, and who should skip it.

At $17.79 it sits near the bottom of the market, carrying a 4.4-star Amazon rating across 430 reviews. That price buys 2.4 GHz wireless and Bluetooth in one handheld device, a seven-color backlight, a rechargeable battery, and a laser pointer. Whether it adds up depends almost entirely on what you plan to type on it.

What I Liked About the Burhoo K808 Mini Keyboard

Dual 2.4G and Bluetooth Pairing on One Keyboard

The K808 connects two ways, and that flexibility does more work than any other feature here. The included USB receiver auto-pairs in 2.4G mode, so you plug the dongle into a PC or smart TV and it works with no setup and no software to install. Bluetooth mode skips the dongle entirely and frees up a port on laptops, tablets, and phones.

In practice that means you are not locked to one device. I left the dongle in a computer and still paired the same keyboard to a phone over Bluetooth, where it showed up in the device list as “K808.” Burhoo rates the wireless link at up to 10 m, or roughly 33 feet, which covers a living room comfortably. If you want that same freedom to jump between machines on a full-size desk keyboard, the YUNZII B87 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard carries 2.4GHz, Bluetooth, and a wired mode in one tri-mode board.

The USB Receiver Hides in the Keyboard’s Side Slot

The USB-A dongle stores in a slot cut into the side of the body rather than rattling around in a bag. Losing the receiver is the single most common way one of these keyboards dies, since it is paired to that specific unit and no off-the-shelf adapter replaces it. Keeping it in the chassis is a small design decision that matters.

A Real Touchpad and Mouse Buttons Under Your Thumb

The touchpad is what makes this more than a keyboard. It sits at the left of the deck with dedicated left and right mouse buttons directly below it, so you can point, click, and right-click without reaching for a second accessory. Pressing FN+Alt rotates the touchpad axis 90 degrees to match how you are holding the unit.

That combination replaces the worst part of a TV-connected computer: hunting around an on-screen keyboard with a remote, one letter at a time. You type and point the way you would on a laptop.

Seven-Color Backlight Makes Dark-Room Typing Easy

A button cycles the backlight through seven colors, and the RGB glow is the difference between usable and useless in a dark media room. This is the feature the Logitech K400 Plus still does not have after a decade on sale.

A 600mAh Rechargeable Battery That Charges Over USB-C

The built-in 600mAh cell charges over Type-C with the same cable already on your desk, so there are no AAAs to swap. An auto sleep and wake function powers the unit down when you set it aside and brings it back when you pick it up. Standby life stretches long enough that charging never became part of my routine.

The Built-In Laser Pointer Earns Its Place

A dedicated button on the side fires a laser pointer, which is an odd inclusion until you present with it. Advancing slides, typing live notes, and pointing at the screen from one handheld unit means no separate clicker in the bag.

Genuinely Pocket-Sized at About Six Inches Long

At roughly 6 x 2.33 x 0.51 inches and 0.1 kg, this portable keyboard fits in a palm and slips into a coat pocket. The 69-key QWERTY deck is plastic rather than metal, but nothing about it feels fragile in the hand. The keycaps have a tactile rubbery press that is closer to an old cell phone keypad than a mechanical switch, and for short bursts that works well.

What Needs Improvement on This Wireless Keyboard with Touchpad

The Touchpad Is the Weakest Part of the Package

The touchpad works, but the cursor moves slowly, and that is the compromise you accept for this form factor. On my 35-inch ultrawide it took five swipes to cross two-thirds of the screen and eight swipes to cross the whole thing. A desktop trackpad would do it in about four.

On a normal display you will swipe fewer times than that, so this is not the dealbreaker it sounds like. It is still fine for navigating menus and clicking links, and poor for pixel-accurate work. Every competing mini keyboard I researched draws the same complaint, so treat it as a category limit rather than a Burhoo defect.

The Ortholinear Key Grid Slows Down Touch Typists

The keys sit in straight rows instead of the staggered layout your hands already know. Touch typists lose their rhythm on it, and the adjustment period is real. This deck is built for short bursts, not for sitting down and writing for an hour.

Small Keys Are Awkward If You Have Large Fingers

At six inches wide there is no way around it: one fingertip covers most of a single key. I had no trouble hitting the right one, but my fingers are not large, and buyers with big hands consistently report more typos than they expected.

Apple Support Is Partial, and Burhoo Says So

Burhoo’s own retail listing warns that some functions may not be compatible with iOS devices and advises buying with that in mind. The keyboard is built around Windows, Android, smart TV, and Raspberry Pi OS, and it works on a Mac as a plain computer keyboard, but do not count on every shortcut key mapping cleanly on Apple hardware.

One more caveat worth knowing before you buy: 2.4 GHz shares the crowded ISM radio band with Wi-Fi. Owners of similar dongle-based keyboards report the link degrading when the receiver is tucked behind a TV or blocked by furniture. Moving the dongle to a front-facing port or a short extension cable fixes most of it.

How the K808 Compares to Logitech and Rii Alternatives

Burhoo K808 vs. Logitech K400 Plus

The Logitech K400 Plus is the default recommendation in this category, and at around $29.99 it earns it with a 3.5-inch touchpad and roughly 18 months on a pair of AA batteries. It is also a two-handed, laptop-width slab you rest on your knees, not something you hold in one palm.

The two gaps that matter are backlight and Bluetooth. The K400 Plus has neither, so it is invisible in a dark room and cannot pair with a phone or tablet at all. The K808 gives you both for roughly $12 less.

Burhoo K808 vs. Rii i4 and Rii Mini Keyboards

Rii mini keyboards are the closest handheld rivals, and the Rii i4 runs about $33 at 7.1 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches and 6.3 ounces. It adds a scroll wheel that owners single out as the reason they keep it, which the K808 does not match.

You are paying nearly double for that scroll wheel and a slightly roomier deck. Reviewers still describe the Rii touchpad as short of a dedicated pointing device, so the trade is size and price rather than precision.

Burhoo K808 vs. Arteck HB030B Backlit Keyboard

The Arteck HB030B is the upgrade pick if the couch is the only place this wireless keyboard will ever live. It shares the seven-color backlight and USB-C rechargeable battery, and reviewers rate its typing feel and touchpad well above the K400 Plus.

It also costs roughly triple and is full size, which rules it out for a bag or a tool kit. If you need one device for the living room, a conference room, and a field service call, the K808 is the only one of the three that goes in a pocket. If typing is the job rather than pointing, the ProtoArc XK04 Foldable Keyboard folds down to a similar pocket size while keeping the staggered layout your hands already know. At the opposite end of the size range, the Clevetura CLVX 1 Mac Keyboard builds touch sensing into every key, so a Mac desk gets cursor control without a separate pointing device at all.

Final Verdict on This Compact, Portable Mini Keyboard

The Burhoo K808 earns 4.2 out of 5 from me. That starts at the 4.4-star Amazon average and comes down slightly for the slow cursor, the cramped ortholinear grid, and the partial iOS support Burhoo documents itself.

None of those are surprises at this price. What you get instead is the widest feature set in the segment: dual 2.4GHz and Bluetooth radios, a stored USB dongle, a seven-color backlight, USB-C charging, and a laser pointer, in something that fits in a pocket.

If you want one compact device to control a TV-connected computer, a media box, or a projector during a presentation, this is worth checking out. If you want to type on it for an hour, buy a real keyboard instead.