Logitech - G502 Lightspeed Wireless Optical Gaming Mouse with RGB Lighting - Black

Highlights: This mouse is fast, precise, comfortable, and has great aesthetics. Powerful software. Great hardware! Compact, portable design. Wireless or wired operation. Wireless charging with the addition of the PowerPlay gaming mouse pad. Lighting is simple but aesthetically pleasing. Aggressive looking. The downside includes confusing G Hub software interface and difficult to find documentation. I chose to get the matching PowerPlay mouse pad due to the wireless charging and the swappable fabric and hard surface mouse pad options. Please read on for my full review. Setup: I first setup the PowerPlay mouse pad. The transmitter is built into the mouse pad. The transmitter connects to the computer via a single USB cable. The G502 has a 1 3/8 Inch diameter cover on the bottom of the mouse that is interchangeable with the optional wireless charging puck that comes with the PowerPlay mouse pad. This puck also hides a compartment keeps the usb wireless transmitter safe when you are not using it. You will not need the USB adapter when connected to the PowerPlay. It is a great place to store the USB wireless adapter when not in use. The puck is held in place with magnets. This keeps the USB adapter nice and safe. It also holds the cover firmly in place. Swapping out the covers is very easy. The PowerPlay instantly turned on when I turned on the computer. I turned on the G502 using the on/off switch located on the bottom of the mouse. The PowerPlay and G502 instantly connected. However, this convince did come with an interesting challenge. I found that I was unable to use the USB wireless adapter with any of my laptops. After some experimentation, I found that the G502 and PowerPlay maintained connection regardless of distance and power status of my gaming computer. I had to turn cut off all power to my computer before I could use the G502 wirelessly with another computer. My computer continues to power USB devices while in soft power down mode. This is so I can charge my cell phone or wireless equipment when not using the computer. I was shocked by the transmission range of both products. I was over 20 feet away from the device and on another floor and still had a connection. I am glad I found a work around. It would have been nice if there was a KB article about this. This will not be an issue for you if you purchase the G502 Lightspeed by itself. This proved to be a minor issue easily overcome by modifying my behavior. Go green and turn off your PC! The good news is that you now know the work around if you find yourself in a similar situation. Documentation: The included documentation for the G502 Lightspeed is laughably slim. There is a small foldout pictorial showing how to setup the G502 for the first time. There is also a pictorial showing the placement for the weights inside the mouse’s two compartments. I was surprised that there were no instructions to download the Logitech G Hub from Logitech’s website. Maybe I missed it? The PowerPlay suffered a similar documentation drought. I can forgive this oversite with the PowerPlay. It is ridiculously easy to setup. Pictorials is really all you need. The Logitech G Hub is another matter entirely. Logitech really makes you search for the G Hub Manual. I did find it. The Logitech G Hub is very powerful. I have been looking through the software for three days and still feel overwhelmed with the customization options. I can do anything I want with any button except for the scroll wheel lock button. Every other button seems fair game. And then, Logitech dropped the ball by hiding the user’s guide deep in the G Hub’s interface. Why Logitech? Please tell me why!? The manual looks well written and thought out. It is also written in multiple Languages. This is the meat and potatoes of your unifying API for your gaming products! It should be front and center in huge blinking red font on the home page of G Hub! Logitech should be proud of this. G Hub Manual: https://www.logitech.com/assets/65550/ghub.pdf G502 Mouse Manual: https://www.logitech.com/assets/65648/g502-lightspeed.pdf Comfort: The mouse feels good in my hand. Each button has a short travel distance between pressed and depressed. It takes very little effort to activate every button. I like that the two buttons to the left of the left mouse button are sensitive enough that I can rock my finger over them to adjust the mouse sensitivity up and down. This way I do not have to lift my finger to make a DPI sensitivity adjustment. Small movements are best while in the heat of pixel armageddon. The scroll wheel has two modes, free and restrictive. As you can guess, free means the mouse wheel freely spins with nothing but friction to slow it down. There is a button behind the wheel that will engage a limiter of sorts. Engaging the limiter prevents the mouse from freely gliding and adds a nice audible and tactile click. I like this mode because it gives me better precision with the games I play. It is also my preferred mode for normal computing sessions such as work and web browsing. The mouse wheel also has a left and right button function. The left and right click are very sensitive. I mapped the mini-map function to the right-side wheel button and spent a game fighting with the in-game map constantly popping up. I then discovered that I clench my hand when in stressful situations. Time to unlearn some bad moussing habits. I also like the way the mouse glides along the fabric PowerPlay mousing surface. I did not like the hard surface cover that came with the PowerPlay. I find the fabric pad to be more comfortable for my play and work style. I think Logitech made a good choice by including both moussing covers. There is a button with a crosshairs symbol on it. This button instantly, and temporarily, sets the mouse to the lowest DPI you set for your profile. This is very helpful when sniping or other situations where precision is needed. I did not realize how useful this feature was until I had. I love it! Lighting: The G502 and the PowerPlay both have the iconic Logitech “G”. Both light up. I really do believe the lighting option is icing on the cake for an already attractive device. I do believe Logitech should have added more lighting. Maybe add an LED to the mouse wheel housing. The mouse does look great in a dark room. It also fits right in with my other lighted gaming gear. You can map lighting effects to each game you play and each application you use. Unfortunately, the learning curve to building profiles is unnecessarily steep. There is one unique lighting feature that I really like. The mouse has three battery LED indicators. These double as DPI indicators. The furthest forward position is the maximum DPI defined in your profile. The furthest rear position is for the lowest profile defined DPI. The lights in between represent the in-between DPI settings. All I need is a quick glance during a gaming session to tell me which DPI I am on. I have also been using it during my daily computer sessions. Super helpful feature. The battery LEDS also sync with the G Hub lighting. You do not have the ability to individually control each battery indicator LED. Software: The software is a mixed bag. I run into this with every manufacturer’s “unique” software suite. From 40,000 feet, this software is not intuitive at all. However, spend a little time with it, and you will see that this is a very power, feature rich software suite; almost overwhelming. The drag and drop feature for each mouse button is cool. I was able to quickly setup my most common keyboard commands in seconds. Best part, I can setup button commands for every game and application I use. Logitech has many popular windows commands pre-defined. So, if you want one button to CTRL+C for copy, and another for CTRL+V for paste, then just drag those commands from the menu to the mouse button you want to assign the commands too. No need to build your own macro. There is a dark side. It takes some real work, and patience, to decipher the G Hubs interface. I just happened upon the settings that allowed me to assign a profile to a game. Real pain. The documentation is also buried in the interface. Macros creation is setup as a wizard of sorts. You will perform a lot of trial and error before figuring it all out. The macro, once create, will be added to the Macro list for easy drop and drag onto a mouse button of your choice. Finally, the software will display the remaining battery level in the form of a percentage. The PowerPlay will charge the mouse during use. I found that the mouse will continue to discharge even while on the PowerPlay pad. Maybe I will get more moussing time than with the mouse’s battery alone. Only time will tell. The PowerPlay does charge the mouse when I am not using it. The G502 will also deactivate itself while not in use. The lights will remain on as long as it has a connection to the transmitter. Finally, the mouse will discharge faster with LED lights on. You do have the option to turn them off in the G Hub software. Final words: The mouse is awesome! The weights allow me to adjust the mouse weight to my liking. Great use of space. I can add the four 2-gram weights, the wireless USB adapter, and the PowerPlay adapter without adding any bulk to the mouse. I love the aggressive look of the mouse. And it feels great in my hand. The PowerPlay is icing on the cake. I have zero complains about it. Logitech does have some work ahead of it for the G Hub software. Logitech also needs to put the documentation front and center! Hopefully, they figure out how to streamline the interface, incorporate more hover help, and build some contextual help into each page. It would go a long way to make the powerful features of the G Hub more accessible to more than just the hardcore gamers.

I started my love affair with the G502 in 2016 with a Proteus Spectrum, and moved up recently to the Hero in 2018. While there are still plenty of miles left in that unit, it was impossible to pass up the opportunity to cut the literal cord...and the hype is real. There is zero sacrifice on the form factor that I came to know and love...it took some time to find my way into a mouse just right for me, I worked through a slew of other models that were too wide, too humped, buttons just not where I needed them, and when I found the 502, I hit jackpot. At the time, I felt like it would be a short term fix, as most companies move on to the next design, new ergonometrics, etc...but Logitech listened to the passion and held true to what it knew worked. It felt like an old friend, and that was good. Same 11 button availability, same tactile influences like the rubberized textured thumb grip and pinkie rest, same easily accessible DPI buttons for on-the-fly adjustments (as well as the snipe button to slow the action for the shot), same dual-action scroll wheel -soft clicks on rotation, or if you prefer, the infinity spin mode. While I am not overtly sensitive to the long standing dichotomy that wired is faster, I will say this...there is absolutely zero perceptible lag on this bad boy. I blind tested it adjacent to my 502 Hero, and I was flipping a coin on my choice...it was a guess. I couldn't identify wired against wireless while playing. If you at all fear that the convenience of wired gets you a perceptible advantage, forget it...that is a bet you would lose. One of the more interesting updates Logitech was able to achieve is that this surprisingly is a lighter mouse at only 114g, largely due to the revamped architecture on the inside that you don't see. Definitely a plus if you are following the latest trend in acquiring the lightest possible mouse (there are lighter models to be had at a lesser price, for sure...but this is a 502!), I happen to be an ardent fan of a mouse with presence and heft in my hand, and with the still-present removable bottom plate and loose weight plates included with the mouse, you can add back in up to an additional 16 grams to the assembly. While the wireless battery disc centered in the bottom mouse removes some area of weight-adding opportunity, it is also where this mouse, in all of its freedom and glory, really shines. This mouse advertises 60 hours of gameplay, and 48 if you use default RGBs (and who doesn't, as everyone knows that having RGBs add more precision to your shots and more damage to your kills), but pairing this mouse with the Powerplay wireless charging system is like having the infinity gauntlet, just without the gems. You have a wireless mouse, and you will never look at the charge percentage again. A very slick desktop unit with interchangable pads that is your charger. Mouse sits, mouse charges. Game over. This mouse (and the Powerplay charging pad) are not cheap gaming accessories, the price is fairly steep as far as mice go. There are plenty of wireless rodents that are also of great caliber, by industry leading brands, and that may exceed some one spec or another of this unit. This is the legendary G502. This is untethered. This really wasn't a question of if, it was really a question of when.

The G502 wireless gaming mouse is everything it promises to be: it’s lightweight, comfortable in the hand, and is fully customizable from lighting effects to macro triggering on its 11 programmable buttons. If you’re a casual gamer like me and have never before invested in a gaming mouse with programmable functions for hotkeys, I have to say this mouse will probably be the single best thing you can buy to help you improve your gameplay skill and competitiveness. For a game like Fortnite, having all the build hotkeys at the tips of your fingers, literally, can give you an edge over your opponents. Even if you don’t play competitively, in single-player environments where your opponents are purely AI, you’ll have a slightly better speed advantage to take them out. The quick DPI adjustments and dedicated DPI shift buttons allow you to easily flow between fast moving character control and accurate/precise aiming in first-person shooters, for example when sniping. The mouse is amazingly sensitive and has accurate tracking, but I found that on soft mouse pads it tends to drag/scrape a little, so I prefer using a hard surface mouse pad with this mouse, where I didn’t notice this issue. The battery life with the default lighting settings is faithful to its 48 hour estimate, and I only need to plug it in to charge about once a week, since I use the mouse for work as well as play on weekdays. With the LED turned off you can get 8-10 extra hours out of it, but that kind of takes the fun out of having a gaming mouse. However, don’t lose the cable that comes with the mouse because it has a unique extra long microUSB connector so you can reach the port set deeply at the front of the mouse. You can also, if you choose, get the Logitech Powerplay gaming mouse pad which will continuously charge the G502 Lightspeed as long as you use the mouse on the pad. This eschews the need to ever plug it in to charge at all as you will have a constant trickle charge when using over the pad. The pad also takes the place of the wireless receiver, freeing up the one that comes with the mouse to use on a secondary device, like a laptop. While the mouse is lightweight at around 115 g, it’s still not the lightest wireless one out there, but at least feels lighter than many wired counterparts because you don’t have the cable hanging off the front. It does also come with 16 g of extra weights plates so you can fully customize your experience to what feels comfortable in your hand and for your style of gameplay. I prefer using the mouse without the weights, as I feel it gives me the most control. Now for the quirks and weird stuff. One thing that I found a bit finicky is the center click of the mouse wheel. Because there are 3 directional clicks for it: left, right, and straight down, sometimes when I press down on it, it registers as a left scroll wheel click. This may be due to the way I hold the mouse or uneven downward pressure which makes it lean slightly to one side. Maybe I need more time to get used to it to be more precise, but because the side clicking seems to be a bit more sensitive, it can result in a misfire of a command when the intent was to trigger a center click. I also found that sometimes the lighting settings will randomly shut off, so even though in Logitech G Hub shows that I have the lights still set to breathing, they’re clearly not on anymore, and I have to play with the settings to make them come on again. Not sure if this is a software issue caused by syncing with the Powerplay mousepad light settings. Another quirky thing is when setting up the key assignments in G Hub, while in the G-Shift settings, the mouse is set to use those settings live (without holding down the assigned G-Shift key) so if you overwrite “Primary Click” with a new action, this makes it impossible to continue using the mouse in this menu, as you’ve no longer a primary click function. The only way to reset the action is to use another mouse to undo the change. There’s also not an ideal button to use for G-shift because using any one of them will result in at least one awkward combination that can’t be performed one-handed (I’m using G6 which makes G4 and G5 nearly impossible to access with the same thumb). Ideally there would have been a button on the right that could be accessed with the pinky for this purpose. Note that the G502 is designed specifically for right-handed use. So far those have been my only complaints with the mouse, and they’re relatively minor points. Overall, the mouse works great though, and the endless scrolling is awesome if you do a lot of spreadsheet work. I also like that you can toggle it on/off to return to single line scrolling at the press of a button. There’s a lot to like in this mouse, but if this is your first time venturing into the realm of mice with more than 2-buttons and a scroll wheel there’s a bit of a learning curve to remember all the actions you’ve programmed into it! A small cost for the improvement in productivity and gameplay in my book.

I love the programmable buttons and RGB. I upgraded from the wired version of this mouse. The only difference is that the scroll is lighter and the mouse feels lighter. I prefer the scroll on the wired version but it is a pretty minor difference. Also you can use the mouse wired so you can charge it and use it at the same time.

I have several mice to pick from, this by far is my favorite. I've added some rubber stickers view picture. there from Razor. Glides like butter, fits well in hand. The perfect mouse.

I like wireless mice but the batter would go low then I got a mouse on a rope again, so I thought why is it really worth it. Well I was browsing BB and found this from "LOGITECH" what? I like all their products they are reliable, but this was a gaming setup. So I gave it a shot. OH MY GOSH! I love this, I'm never going back.

Absolutely worth every penny. ive had plenty of wired and wireless mice including the corsair dark core wireless, dark core pro, nightsword, razer mice etc and nothing compares to this mouse. the ease of use through the software is awesome. There is almost no lift which is fantastic for FPS and its super responsive and the batter lasts for what seems like forever.

Best upgrade if you want a great wireless gaming mouse