Features and Pictures

When I first saw photos of the G502 I thought it was similar to the Cyborg Rat mice with their adjustability. When I finally got it into my hands I realized the area’s that I thought were adjustable gaps are actually glossy pieces of plastic that break up the rubber and plastic finishes. As someone who wasn’t really a big fan of the Rat design I wasn’t upset at all to find out that Logitech didn’t go that direction. The design of the G502 is however still drastically different from the “standard” Logitech designs that we have seen multiple times with just a fresh coat of paint. This design takes the shape of the G602 that was recently introduced and goes even farther with it. The shape is thinner and longer than it looks in photos. To give you an idea of the size it is slightly skinnier than the G700s but about a half inch longer.

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Up top the G502 has two programmable buttons just to the left of your trigger finger. The scroll wheel is a unique design made completely out of metal. There isn’t a rubber coating over the scroll wheel like most mice these days but the shape is designed to give good traction still. When you push the scroll wheel down there is another programmable button as well as tilt functionality. The button directly behind the scroll wheel unlocks its free spin mode, like on the G700s and some of Logitech’s other higher end mice. The last button (g9) is another programmable button but giving its location you want to only use it for things that you want to avoid pressing while in game. The default setting is to flip through the G502’s three profiles.

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The right side of the G502 doesn’t have to much going on. Logitech coated the side with rubber and a raised triangle design to give you good traction.

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The left side of the G502 has two side buttons as well as the G-Shift button. Logitech has giving the side below the side buttons a rubber finish and small indented triangles for extra grip, just like on the right side of the mouse.

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The bottom of the G502 continues its weird shape. They did still manage to fit in six Teflon pads to make sure the G502 glides perfectly. The only thing I would like to see would be easier to replace pads that don’t use adhesive. Microsoft did this on a few of their side winder mice. Not only were they easy to swap out, they also allow you to swap between different types of pads to customize your experience even more. A side benefit to this would be for people like me who have cats, all of my mice collect cat hair around each of the pads and inside of the sensor.

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One of the key features of the G502 is its adjustable weight system. Personally I rarely find the need to make my mouse heavier, but it is nice to have the option to be able to tune the mouse to exactly what you prefer. To get to the G502’s weight system you flip the mouse over and you can pull on the blue part of the base. The panel covers most of the bottom of the mouse and is held into place with a magnet. You shouldn’t have to worry about the panel falling off in use with the magnet and the mouse feet on the bottom holding it all together. With the panel off you can see that you have up to five weight locations. For weights Logitech provides a small plastic case with 5 3.6 gram weights. This should give you full range from light weight to extremely heavy should you need it.

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For the USB cord, Logitech went with a different weave. I have heard of some people having the old style wear through on them, this might be in response to that. Otherwise the cord is the same length as any other mouse. I do like that the G502 comes with a Velcro cord wrap to keep things from being a mess when you don’t need as much cord or for when taking your mouse to LANs or tournaments.

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With the g502 hooked up we can see the lighting as well. On the palm wrest Logitech put their Gaming logo, it lights up in a bright blue. Over on the side there are also three LED light dashes that show what profile you have the G502 set on.

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garfi3ld's Avatar
garfi3ld replied the topic: #34784 21 May 2014 20:55
The Logitech G502 is an exciting mouse, Logitech has made big changes from their normal formula, check out our review.
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VaporX replied the topic: #36216 01 Feb 2015 14:53
Wanted to add some thoughts to this as I have been using this mouse for the last month. The mouse is great for gaming and my current mouse of choice. Your review is spot on but I wanted to add to it, specifically the part about the free movement of the scroll when.

The feature is very cool and I like it, well not at first. You see the wheel is VERY free moving. So much so that you often over scroll or accidently scroll back when you finish scrolling. This is not the course scroll system of other mice it takes a bit of control.

Logitech did realize that some people would not like this option so they added a click button that engages a ratchet feature to the scroll wheel like most other mice used. The issue is the ratchet has a cheap feel to it and is way to overdone for my tastes. If Logitech would lighten it up a bit I would be happier.

Overall still a great gaming mouse.
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Myndmelt replied the topic: #36233 04 Feb 2015 22:21
Sounds pretty similar to the infinite scroll feature they have had on a number of mice of the last few years. My Performance MX has that too. Infinite scroll, and click and do the draggy scroll deal. I prefer the infinite.

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