The feel is only slightly different too, but for the better. It hasn’t made a difference to the pinpoint accuracy of the G502, but does make for an unpleasant sound as you’re scraping your mouse around in the heat of battle.īut Logitech has still managed to keep the outside of G502 looking every bit like the original Proteus Spectrum, except without the stupid name, and with a completely redesigned inside. With my office mat they glide pretty smoothly, yet on my home pad it sometimes feels like it’s dragging its heels. Depending on your mouse surface they can feel a touch rough. Only a couple of the mouse’s feet have escaped complete redesign, though they’re actually the only place I have a concern with the newly made rodent. “We started by listening to G502 users,” Chris Pate, Logitech portfolio manager, told me recently, “and they had a very straightforward request, what they wanted was a G502.
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Then the Lightspeed wireless technology has proven itself as a connection that’s every inch as good as a regular wired connection, with the fact professional gamers are trusting Logitech when it matters most in-game breeding confidence among the rest of us.īut it’s the thinwall endo-skeleton technology the company introduced with the super-lightweight Pro Wireless which has allowed Logitech to give its community the mouse they wanted. The G502 is knocking around 48 hours with the default lighting mode – where the G900 started out at around 30 hours – and up to 60 hours with the RGB LEDs deactivated.īut no-one’s going to deactivate the pretty lights, obviously. And to do so while still increasing that battery life. It’s the Hero 16K sensor used in the Pro Wireless which has allowed Logitech’s engineers to fit the G502 out with a battery a fraction of the size of the one which gives the G900 the longevity it currently enjoys. And the excellent Logitech G Pro Wireless seems to have been the final proving ground for pretty much all of them. The project as a whole has been worked on for years, with different advances making the creation of the G502 Lightspeed ever more possible. Which is something Logitech really didn’t want to do, but thankfully the company has been working to create a set of mouse technologies – such as the Hero sensor and the Lightspeed wireless tech – that have now made it possible to create a wireless version of the G502… and crucially make one that’s actually lighter too. Rat race: These are the best gaming mice around todayĪnd when you come to making an existing design wireless you’ve got to add in a second sensor to cope with the wireless communication as well as a battery, and that’s only going to add to the weight. At around 120g, not including the cable, the G502 wasn’t exactly a heifer, but it was still seen as a heavy mouse, a ‘brick’ if you will. The problem is that, despite being the most popular mouse since Danger, the G502 was also one which spawned its own meme culture, mostly surrounding the weight of the design. But these things, they are not so simple to do, in fact Logitech’s principal optical engineer explained the G502 Lightspeed to me as a “mechanical miracle.” The G502 is, apparently, the best-selling gaming mouse on the planet – potentially thanks to the intervening years making its original high price tag now far lower – and it would seem like a no-brainer to simply drop a wireless sensor into place and ship it out into the wild.
When are you going to release a wireless version of the G502? And that’s whether they’re researching VR, gaming, or smart home stuff.
Indeed Logitech, and even its external agency people, tell me for every research event, social, or forum posting the company puts out there will always be at least one person responding with the same question. It has always remained a resolutely wired mouse, however, even once it was updated with Logitech’s in-house Hero sensor.Īnd that’s been an issue for many people. But it’s a much-loved pensioner and one that can still go toe-to-toe with the best of the digital rodents released into the market. In tech years that makes it practically a pensioner. The original G502 gaming mouse was released almost five years ago now.
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