They’re rare at the moment, but that’s likely to change as competitors get a taste for this new frontier in high-end gaming accessories. There are only a few wireless mice with wireless charging mousepads on the market today, like the Logitech Powerplay system. They’re new products, they’re a new way to accessorize your gaming rig.

The most exciting thing about the Razer Hyperflux and its competitors is the simple fact that they’re new. That’s a lot for a mouse and mousepad, but not if you want the best, and that’s what Razer is banking on here. To be fair though, it should be remarkable, since it’s $250. Plus the Firefly pad itself features two different surface types for anyone who prefers a slick hard plastic surface to a more typical soft-touch fabric surface.Īll together it’s a remarkable device that reinterprets wireless gaming mice in a bold new way. Quick adjustments and positioning are easy to execute without even thinking about cables. It’s as quick as it needs to be and it just glides effortlessly across the Firefly charging pad. Playing games, the wireless Mamba never slowed us down, even when we put it in the hands of our resident Overwatch expert. In this way, the Mamba and Firefly Hyperflux offer the best of both worlds: The speed, comfort, and always-on functionality of a wired mouse, alongside the freedom and elegance of a wireless mouse. It lives on the mousepad, and it likes it there. It differs from a typical charging cradle in that it’s just there, it’s a part of the whole experience, it isn’t something you need to remember to place your mouse on when you’re done with it. Just set it on the Firefly pad and it blinks to life. You don’t need to put new batteries in it, you don’t need to rest it on its charging cradle when it’s not in use, you don’t even have to turn it on and off. Unlike other wireless gaming mice, the Mamba Hyperflux never needs to be charged.

These are all problems normal wireless gaming mice already solved, right? Right.

You never have to pull on the mouse to get some slack out of the cable, you never have to tuck that same cable back behind your monitor so it doesn’t get tangled on anything. But after a few minutes, you start to notice how smooth the mouse glides over the surface, how nice it is to be able to lift up the mouse to adjust your position without even thinking about cords and cables. When you first sit down and use the Mamba Hyperflux with the charging pad, it feels like any other mouse. The Mamba Hyperflux never needs to be charged.

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