I haven’t thought about charging my Logitech wireless gaming mouse in two and a half years because I have a magical mouse pad that charges itself. But the Logitech mice used with the Powerplay mouse pad are expensive, bulky, or both, and none of them double as Bluetooth mice, so I can use them with my laptop, handheld device, or phone Wireless pairing.
Now Logitech is changing that with the Logitech G309, an $80 mouse that can do just about everything. It’s the first Powerplay mouse to be so cheap, the first to feature Bluetooth, the first to let you use AA batteries on the go, and the first Logitech wireless mouse to have a built-in supercapacitor. mouse must No batteries required at all.
Even without Powerplay, the G309 is a dual-mode wireless gaming mouse with up to 300 hours of battery life using the Lightspeed wireless adapter and 600 hours of battery life via Bluetooth, while allowing you to carry an 86-gram frame.
But if you have the $120 Powerplay pad, you can remove the AA batteries and bring the total mouse weight to Only 68 gramsNearly as light as the 60-gram, $160 Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 This last year made me very envious of mice. This is possible because the supercapacitors act as tiny batteries that are constantly charged wirelessly by the Powerplay mouse pad underneath. “It never dies; it never dies.” It has endless battery life.
It’s not the first wireless gaming mouse to test the waters with supercapacitors, but when Mad Catz and Razer tried it in 2018, those expensive wireless-powered mice didn’t have any supercapacitors. other charging method. You must use them on a bundled mat or via a wired power cord. Until now, Logitech has been using internal rechargeable lithium batteries to make its Powerplay mice more portable. Here, AA batteries make up the difference.
Despite being at the budget end of Logitech’s gaming mouse range, the G309 also comes with the same Hero 25K sensor and hybrid opto-mechanical switches that the company has been using in its higher-end mice for a while, both of which are probably better than the ones it’s based on. The $60 G305 mouse is even more popular.
But it’s still missing one feature I’d struggle to have on a Logitech mouse — the company’s dual-mode ratchet/free-spinning scroll wheel, which I often use to quickly browse documents and web pages when I use a gaming mouse for work. As far as I know, among gaming mice, this is still unique to the G502 and G903.
And, a bit of a shame, Logitech is still selling its Powerplay mouse pad for $120 with only the rarest and smallest of discounts. If the company really wants to fulfill the G309’s promise of “wireless gaming for everyone” (which is Logitech’s slogan), I’d suggest making the entire package more affordable.
Logitech said it will continue to sell the G305 and G309. The G309 can also share a Lightspeed wireless adapter with a range of Logitech wireless keyboards, including the new G515 TKL, G715, G915, G915 TKL, Pro X 60 and Pro X TKL.
