Logitech's classic gaming mouse, the G502, is back. This time, we're introducing the wireless version, the "G502 LIGHTSPEED," which has been redesigned based on the original form factor, made lighter, and features a new generation 16,000 DPI HERO sensor, paired with 50-million click Japanese Omron micro-switches. It comes with 5 customizable weights, allowing users to freely adjust the mouse's balance and feel. Additionally, with "POWERPLAY" charging technology and up to 60 hours of battery life, players can "battle" for extended periods without the constraints of wires. A must-have for wireless enthusiasts!
Logitech G502 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Mouse
Logitech's classic gaming mouse, the G502, is back with a redesigned wireless version, the "G502 LIGHTSPEED." It utilizes Japanese Omron micro-switches to provide mechanical button tension for players seeking high "speed," ensuring fast and accurate button response. Featuring a HERO optical sensor with up to 16,000 DPI, it also includes adjustable weights for users to fine-tune the mouse's balance and feel. The ergonomic design offers the most natural and comfortable control experience, allowing players to enjoy games without the restriction of cables.
The Logitech "G502 LIGHTSPEED" wireless gaming mouse comes in a solid black color scheme, featuring a moderate curved back and a slightly elongated body, with dimensions of 13.2cm x 7.5cm x 4.0cm. Its internal exoskeleton design allows for thinner wall thickness. The palm area features an illuminated Logitech G-series LOGO, and it incorporates dual-injection rubber side grips, providing the most comfortable and natural control experience.
11 Customizable Buttons
The mouse body features 11 customizable buttons, including left/right click, DPI +/- buttons, left/middle/right scroll wheel buttons, page up/down buttons, and a sniper button. These cater to MMO players' need for numerous skill buttons, while the sniper button located near the thumb is for FPS games. Pressing it instantly lowers the DPI, allowing for finer and more precise crosshair movement, leading to more accurate targeting. It also offers 5-level real-time DPI profile switching, with default values of 400, 800, 1,600, 3,200, and 6,400 DPI, which can be customized via the G HUB software.
Hyper-Fast Scroll Wheel Design
The "G502 LIGHTSPEED" retains its exclusive hyper-fast scroll wheel design, allowing for quick, free rotation with a gentle flick, providing a smooth page scrolling experience. This is highly practical when browsing long webpages such as Facebook and forums. It also maintains the standard stepped-lock scrolling, and users can easily switch between the two scrolling modes using the button below the scroll wheel.
HERO 16K Optical Sensor
The Logitech "G502 LIGHTSPEED" wireless gaming mouse features the new-generation HERO 16K optical sensor, offering a maximum resolution of 16,000 DPI, with a tracking speed of 400+ IPS and a maximum acceleration of 40+ G. It also provides zero filtering, zero smoothing, and zero acceleration tracking, ensuring high positioning accuracy and sensitivity for players even during high-speed mouse movements.
LIGHTSPEED Wireless Connectivity Technology
The "G502 LIGHTSPEED" wireless gaming mouse, when paired with its dedicated receiver, supports LIGHTSPEED's exclusive high-performance wireless connectivity technology. The data channel is meticulously tuned for optimization, boasting a report rate of up to 1000Hz and an ultra-low end-to-end connection delay of less than 1ms. According to Logitech's official experiments, its speed even surpasses that of ordinary wired mice, allowing players to break free from cable constraints and perform to their fullest in time-critical gaming "battles."
Supports POWERPLAY Wireless Charging System
Users are probably most afraid of their wireless peripherals running out of power. The Logitech "G502 LIGHTSPEED" has a built-in non-replaceable lithium-ion polymer battery, offering up to 60 hours of battery life. Users can also opt for the "POWERPLAY" wireless charging system, which uses electromagnetic resonance technology to create an energy field on the charging pad surface, providing a continuous power supply to the mouse. This meets the demands of players who engage in extended gaming sessions, a truly innovative feature.
OMRON Switch D2FC-F-K (50M)
Regarding the buttons, the "G502 LIGHTSPEED" wireless gaming mouse uses Japanese OMRON Switch D2FC-F-K (50M) blue dot micro-switches, characterized by a slightly softer button feel, moderate rebound force, and crisp click sound. The actuation force is only 0.49N, ensuring that fingers won't feel particularly fatigued even during prolonged "battles." Moreover, it boasts a durability of up to 50 million clicks, making it highly durable.
Adjustable Weight System
The Logitech "G502 LIGHTSPEED" features an adjustable weight system, including 4 x 2g and 2 x 4g weights. Players can open the magnetic bottom cover to customize the mouse's weight, ranging from 114g to 130g. They can also adjust the center of gravity according to personal preferences or grip style to achieve the optimal personalized balance and feel.
Supports Logitech G HUB Gaming Software
Supporting the Logitech G HUB gaming software, which manages all Logitech gaming peripherals and hardware from a single interface, the "G502 LIGHTSPEED" wireless gaming mouse offers up to 11 programmable function keys. These include left/right click, DPI +/- keys, left/middle/right scroll wheel keys, page up/down keys, and a sniper function key. All buttons can be freely assigned different functions, such as setting them to specific keyboard skill keys to quickly cast spells with the mouse, which is very practical in games.
It also supports macro recording, allowing players to record complex sequences of button actions into the mouse. Later, these actions can be repeated simply by pressing a macro hotkey, significantly enhancing combat power. Furthermore, it supports profile saving, and can detect installed games on the user's system to automatically load corresponding profile settings when a game is launched, ensuring easy victories in any game.
The Logitech "G502 LIGHTSPEED" can store 5 independent profiles, with each profile recording 5 customizable DPI settings that can be switched in real-time using the DPI increase/decrease buttons. The left side of the mouse features an RGB LED to display the current setting. One of the settings can be configured as a "Sniper" profile, which temporarily lowers the DPI when the "Sniper" button is pressed, allowing for finer and more precise crosshair movement, making it easy to "Head-Shot" enemies. This caters to the needs of FPS gamers.
LIGHTSYNC RGB Lighting Effects
In terms of lighting effects, the Logitech "G502 LIGHTSPEED" wireless gaming mouse features dual-zone dynamic RGB LED lighting on the palm LOGO and the left side. Players can change the colors and lighting modes through the Logitech G HUB gaming software. Default modes include static, cycle, and breathing effects.
It also includes "Screen Sampler" and "Audio Visualizer" lighting effects, where the engine dynamically changes the lighting based on the primary colors of the system screen and music rhythm, adding a strong sense of immersion.
Editor's Review:
As early as 5 years ago, when Logitech launched the first "G502" gaming mouse, I was very fond of its moderate curve, slightly elongated body, and crisp mechanical button tension micro-switches. Now, it has finally been redesigned into the wireless "G502 LIGHTSPEED," featuring an internal exoskeleton design for a lighter build. It comes with 5 customizable weights, allowing users to freely adjust the mouse's balance and feel. With LIGHTSPEED wireless technology, the connection latency is even lower than some wired mice, freeing users from the constraints of cables and making them true wireless believers!
(Credits to HKEPC, https://www.hkepc.com/18057/%E7%84%A1%E7%B7%9A%E9%87%8D%E7%8F%BE%E7%B6%93%E5%85%B8_Logitech_G502_LIGHTSPEED_%E7%84%A1%E7%B7%9A%E9%9B%BB%E7%AB%B6%E6%BB%91%E9%BC%A0 , 2019/06/26)
