Mighty Mouse gets a Bluetooth

This is great news:

DailyTech and Engadget are showing off pictures from an FCC filing by Apple Computer of the new Mighty Mouse. It looks a lot like the old Mighty Mouse, minus the wire. It is being reported that the mouse will use two standard AA batteries and will be compatible with Tiger. However, the current Mighty Mouse works with Jaguar, albeit with reduced functionality, so it's likely that the Bluetooth model will do the same. In case you don't remember, the original Mighty Mouse had a few drawbacks, two of them being the cord and no Bluetooth, so that's two down.

And it's more than an FCC filing, it's here!

I love the Mighty Mouse because of its trackball, which is an order of magnitude better and easier to use than the big wheels other mice use. It takes a little practice to do the right-click thing, because the mouse is all one big form, so you have to really click over on the right side of the mouse to do things like view contextual menus, but that's an easy adjustment. I find the other mice to be archaic by comparison, just because of those big wheels.

The Mighty Mouse also has these side buttons that I confess I've not worked into my usage flow. But it's nice to know I have programmable power there.

I'm delighted that we can finally get rid of that darned cable, which is always getting in the way of my papers and such. But if it doesn't have a tail, shouldn't we call it the Mighty Gerbil?