Logitech’s $80 Supercapacitor Gaming Mouse Is the Most Versatile Ever

I have never thought of charging my Logitech wi-fi gaming mouse in two and a half years. as a result of i’ve a magic mouse pad which does it robotically. However Logitech mice that work with the Powerplay mouse pad, Costlyheavy or each, and neither can be utilized as a Bluetooth mouse, so I can join them wirelessly to my laptop computer, PDA, or telephone.

At present, Logitech is altering that with Logitech G309an $80 mouse that does nearly all the pieces. It is the primary Powerplay mouse that prices this little, the primary with Bluetooth, the primary that permits you to use an AA battery once you’re on the go, and Logitech’s first wi-fi mouse with a supercapacitor inside so you do not have to Essentially no battery wanted in any respect.

Even with out the Powerplay, the G309 is a dual-mode wi-fi gaming mouse that guarantees as much as 300 hours of battery life when utilizing the Lightspeed wi-fi adapter or as much as 600 hours by way of Bluetooth whilst you carry it round in your hand in its 86-gram body.

However you probably have a $120 Powerplay mousepad, you’ll be able to take away the AA battery and the full weight of the mouse will probably be solely 68 gramsnearly as gentle as 60g, $160 Logitech G Professional X Tremendous Gentle 2 this gave me severe mouse envy final yr. That is attainable as a result of the supercapacitor acts as a tiny battery that’s consistently charged wirelessly by the Powerplay mouse pad positioned beneath it. “It by no means runs out of energy; it lasts eternally,” guarantees Logitech’s senior international product supervisor, Nicolas Métral.

This is not the primary wi-fi gaming mouse to attempt its hand at supercapacitor energy, however… when Mad Catz and Razer tried it in 2018these costly wi-fi mice had no one other charging methodology. You had to make use of them on their included stand or with a wired wire. Till now, Logitech has used inner rechargeable lithium cells to make its Powerplay mice considerably moveable; right here, the AA battery makes up for it.

Regardless of being a budget-priced gaming mouse, the Logitech G309 options the identical Hero 25K sensor and hybrid optomechanical switches that the corporate makes. had been provided in premium mice for a whileEach could be a pleasant improve over the $60 G305 mouse it is based mostly on.

Nevertheless it’s nonetheless lacking one Logitech mouse characteristic that I would be hard-pressed to stay with out: the dual-mode ratcheting and free-spinning scroll wheel that I take advantage of on a regular basis to navigate paperwork and internet pages after I use a gaming mouse for work. Of the gaming mice, it is nonetheless unique to the G502 and G903, so far as I can inform.

And it’s a little bit of a disgrace that Logitech nonetheless sells its $120 Powerplay mouse pad with solely the rarest and smallest reductions. If the corporate actually needs to ship on the G309’s “Wi-fi gaming for everybody” promise — that’s Logitech’s tagline — I’d suggest making the total bundle extra reasonably priced.

Logitech says it is going to proceed to promote the G305 alongside the G309. The G309 may also use a single Lightspeed wi-fi adapter with a number of Logitech wi-fi keyboards, together with new G515 TKLG715, G915, G915 TKL, Professional X 60 and Professional X TKL.