(If the manufacturer mentions a specific frequency, it's just a wireless mouse with a wireless dongle, and only if it has the official Bluetooth symbol of a capital B made out of straight lines that eventually poke through the back of the B, would I claim it was a Bluetooth device.)
wireless....i guess i don't know the difference. it has the dongle. i'm just trying to say it doesn't have a disc. i haven't needed a disc for a mouse in many moons.
Yeah, Bluetooth is a specific, copyrighted, type of wireless communication, and is an industry standard protocol that allows different manufacturers to create devices devices that are compatible with each other.
So it's best not to say something is Bluetooth, when you simply mean it's wireless. Wireless mice existed decades before Bluetooth did. I still have one that plugged into a 9 pin serial port!
MOST Bluetooth devices do NOT come with a dongle for two reasons: 1) Dongles add cost to every wireless device they come with. And 2) Bluetooth transceivers come built-in to almost all computers, tablets, etc. now. And those computers/tablets that DON'T come Bluetooth built in, require only a single Bluetooth dongle to work with a whole range of devices. And even cheap Bluetooth dongles can connect many devices to the same computer/whatever at the same time.
So, for instance, if you have a NON Bluetooth compatible wireless mouse and keyboard made by two different manufacturers, they will each require their own wireless dongle. But if you have a Bluetooth compatible mouse and keyboard from two different manufacturers, the MOST Bluetooth dongles your computer will need is 1 Bluetooth dongle, even when you are using the keyboard and mouse simultaneously!
And that dongle can even come from a third manufacturer because it's all set to an agreed upon standard!
If your computer was built in the last 5-10 years there's an excellent chance you won't need a single Bluetooth dongle at all, because it's already been built into your computer itself.