I have never considered charging my Logitech wi-fi gaming mouse in two and a half years as a result of I’ve a magical mouse pad that costs itself. However the Logitech mice used with the Powerplay mouse pad are costly, cumbersome, or each, and none of them double as Bluetooth mice, so I can use them with my laptop computer, handheld gadget, or cellphone Wi-fi pairing.
Now Logitech modifications that with the launch of the Logitech G309, an $80 mouse that ticks nearly each field. It is the primary Powerplay mouse to be so low cost, the primary to characteristic Bluetooth, the primary to allow you to use AA batteries on the go, and the primary Logitech wi-fi mouse to have a built-in supercapacitor. mouse should No batteries required in any respect.
Even with out Powerplay, the G309 is a dual-mode wi-fi gaming mouse with as much as 300 hours of battery life utilizing the Lightspeed wi-fi adapter and 600 hours of battery life by way of Bluetooth, whereas permitting you to hold an 86-gram body.
However if in case you have the $120 Powerplay pad, you possibly can take away the AA batteries and convey the entire weight of the mouse to Solely 68 gramsPractically as gentle because the 60-gram, $160 Logitech G Professional X Superlight 2 This final yr made me very envious of rats. That is attainable as a result of the supercapacitors act as tiny batteries which are always charged wirelessly by the Powerplay mouse pad beneath. “It by no means dies; it by no means dies.” It has countless battery life.
It is not the primary wi-fi gaming mouse to check the waters with supercapacitors, however when Mad Catz and Razer tried it in 2018, these costly wireless-powered mice did not have any supercapacitors. different charging technique. It’s essential to use them on a bundled mat or by way of a wired energy twine. Till now, Logitech has been utilizing inner rechargeable lithium batteries to make its Powerplay mice extra moveable. Right here, AA batteries make up the distinction.
Regardless of being on the price range finish of Logitech’s gaming mouse vary, the G309 additionally comes with the identical Hero 25K sensor and hybrid opto-mechanical switches that the corporate has been utilizing in its higher-end mice for some time, each of that are most likely higher than those it is primarily based on. The $60 G305 mouse is much more fashionable.
But it surely’s nonetheless lacking one characteristic I would battle to have on a Logitech mouse — the corporate’s dual-mode ratchet/free-spinning scroll wheel, which I usually use to rapidly browse paperwork and net pages once I use a gaming mouse for work. So far as I do know, amongst gaming mice, that is nonetheless distinctive to the G502 and G903.
And, a little bit of a disgrace, Logitech continues to be promoting its Powerplay mouse pad for $120 with solely the rarest and smallest of reductions. If the corporate actually desires to satisfy the G309’s promise of “wi-fi gaming for everybody” (that is Logitech’s slogan), I would counsel making the complete package deal extra reasonably priced.
Logitech mentioned it is going to proceed to promote the G305 and G309. The G309 can even share a Lightspeed wi-fi adapter with a variety of Logitech wi-fi keyboards, together with the brand new G515 TKL, G715, G915, G915 TKL, Professional X 60 and Professional X TKL.
