Sony is going a little crazy making all
kinds of gaming peripherals these days. And now they're making mice and
keyboards for gamers. And at first glance, these have potential. First off,
let's look at the mouse called the Inzone Mouse A. Uh why it is called the
mouse A, I would guess, is it's the first one, and that's the first letter
of the alphabet. Inside the box, we have our mouse. We have what looks like our
8K dongle. Very cool. We have Oh, extra
glide skates. That's very nice. Our stickers, some quick start guides, and
we have a fairly long looking cable. 6
ft long. Oh, and a inzone sticker. Very
nice. This cable is actually a nice little braided cable. It's got loose
sleeving, and even just being through the Labs testing, it's already got some
kind of kinks uh and bad memory in it, but otherwise, it should be fine.
especially if you're not you planning on using the mouse in a wired mode, which
you shouldn't because they include an 8000Hz dongle. Yes, this is a very fast
mouse. That's great. Getting to the mouse itself, it's a pretty standard
looking gaming mouse with pretty premium plastic feel. Uh pretty instantly
comfortable shape. It's something kind of like a Gro Superlite. An ambidextric
shape outside of the buttons on the one side and it fits pretty comfortable in
your hand. It has a little bit bigger of a hump than a Gro X Super Light. Um, but
otherwise that feels uh pretty familiar to me. The clicks,
they feel pretty good outside of the fact that there's a bit of difference depending on where you press on the
button itself, but they're rated for 150 million clicks, which is fantastic. Uh,
reliability on mice, that's usually the first thing to go. You just get double clicks and whatnot. So, that's a great
start for a first try at a mouse. Although I shouldn't say first try cuz
uh Sony used to make more computer stuff
back in the Vio days trying to be a little Apple style. On the top we have
our two buttons left right. This middle thing is not a button although there is
a light. We have our scroll wheel which feels just tactile enough. That's
definitely like meant for gaming. If I was doing productivity stuff I would either want less or more but for gaming
that's just about right. The click feels like I would often scroll accidentally
while clicking. I feel like I would want just a little bit more resistance in the
wheel so I'm not accidentally scrolling when I click. Uh, we'll see how that
translates in game. On our side, we have our back and forward button as well as
our inzone logo. I think that's an acceptable place for a logo. It's much
better than underneath your palm where it's going to wear anyway. So, I think
that's actually pretty smart placement. There's not really anything that touches this. These buttons feel pretty good.
Pretty consistent across the whole button itself. I'm pretty happy. On this
side, we have nothing but my grease. And on the bottom, we have these PTFE skates
as well as this kind of neat uh transparent window that sort of almost
looks like it would be a hollow body design, but there's actually plastic
through. So, this is I'm guessing like a vinyl layer that I could peel. You can
actually see some of the circuitry inside of the mouse. That's pretty neat. We also have our power button. Uh there
is no wireless mode toggle at first glance uh because there is no Bluetooth
mode on this mouse. Not a huge deal breaker for me when it comes to gaming
mice. I generally only use the 14 GHz modes, but it's something to know that
if you are planning on traveling with this thing, you will have to bring the dongle with you. On the front, we have
our recess type-C port. Goes in pretty
easy, and you could definitely use this mouse in this configuration, although I
have doubts about the reliability of this cable. The recess in the type-C
slot is big enough that I could see some cables having trouble, but it's not so
snug that it feels like only one cable in the entire world will fit. The dongle
doesn't look like much. Uh, it's got its type-C port. Boom. We're done. What's
next? Keyboard. Now, this is something I have a little less familiarity with. I
don't think I've ever unboxed a keyboard on ShortCircuit, but these are just
such a cool pair that we wanted to do them together. And I was really curious
because it seems like everyone who's had hands-on with this keyboard really like
it. And there's not too much in the box.
We have another braided 6ft cable. Very
nice warranty. More stickers. And that's
it. Simple, effective, very nice. This
is a pretty fully loaded nice keyboard.
It's got a CNC aluminum body even though it has a plastic bottom that doesn't
feel quite as premium. Uh, but it has foam. It's gasket mounted. Uh, and it
feels to my inexperienced hands like a pretty darn nice typing experience. I
like the sound of that. This one comes with linear switches that are custom
gatoron hall effect ones which I actually didn't know was a thing in the
keyboard space that uh there's a move towards hall effect for all the benefits
that it provides. One thing that's really cool is you can actually change the actuation point in software for
these so that you can have it be really really really fast response times which
pairs beautifully with the keyboard's 8000 hertz polling rate. That is crazy.
I'm like I'm still just getting used to a thousand baby.
On the bottom we have these fold out feet. I think it's just one stage. Don't
see feel any locking in between. Uh that gets it at a more comfortable angle,
especially if I had a little wrist rest. But in terms of design, uh at least when
it's not plugged in, this is a very nice, stealthy, classy keyboard, which
is very refreshing in the gamer space where everything has to be so
eye-catching and so colorful. And I'm sure as soon as I plug it in, there's
going to be rainbow puke. But I think this looks quite smart and handsome,
just like me. Just like I'm 75% the height of Adam Driver. This 75% layout
was uh designed in conjunction with the Fanatic sports team just like the mouse
was. Uh which I think is kind of interesting that they don't actually feature any Fanatics branding on the
box. I don't know if that was like a they didn't want to sign a brand deal or
what it was. Uh but I think it's cool that they included esports gamers
without yelling that they included esports gamers. I like this keyboard. to
my inexperienced gamer hands. I think
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and keyboard in. Everything worked pretty quick. One thing to note is it's
a press power button, not a toggle, so uh it can be a little bit confusing.
First thing first, we can reassign our buttons. I ain't going to do that. We
have our performance tab where we can change our DPI, our polling rate, our
liftoff distance, if we want to have motion sync or angle snap. We're just going to leave everything at default uh
to get the mouse's best kind of base experience. Although I want to not be at
1600. We are cycling through our four profiles, but the color doesn't change.
So that's kind of interesting that it doesn't tell you what you're switching
to. Very interesting. And then we have device settings. So we have our
different profiles. So I could essentially turn off all the profiles I
don't want. Uh we can see our mouse software information. And then we get to
our keyboard. We have our main layer and then we have our function layer. So, we
can assign different functions for this. We're going to leave that as is
performance. That's fun. Oh, okay. Uh,
in our performance settings, we can change the actuation point by key. I
don't think I want to mess around with this too much, but if you are a hardcore
gamer, this is pretty neat because you could have your movement keys be really
fast or your ultimate uh abilities really, really, really fast. That's
cool. I feel like there's so much danger
to changing some of the keys without realizing that you've changed others.
I'm going to leave it at default, baby. We also have the ability to turn on
rapid trigger, which is going to change the speed at which, you know, your D key
will override your A key. Uh, but that can be a little bit dangerous for
anti-che, so I'm going to leave it as is. I don't want to have all my skins
gone in Apex. You know what I'm saying, though? Then we have our lighting
settings. We have our preset that just cycles through different colors. We can do custom per key, different color. No.
And then we can do off. Whoa. That's what I would do. I hate RGB. I guess for
y'all we're going to do inzone original. What the heck is inzone original? That's
a little too much. I don't mind like breathing and stuff, but when it goes fully off then fully on, I feel like
that's going to be a little bit distracting. Let's try inzone original, too.
Nah, I hate it. I hate it. This is awful. I think on like the camera you
can't really see the underglow of the keys. Uh but in person it looks pretty
nice. Although uh our function key is a different color and I don't think that
that's meant to be. I think this thing is RGB is just busted. In our device
settings we have the ability to disable kind of specific keys and key
combinations. So we could disable alt tab or alt f4 if you don't want to
accidentally close your game. Or if you are used to your friend rage quitting uh
when you beat them in CS, you could disable that on their keyboard and then
they can't rage quit as quick. Uh and then we can disable the Windows key,
which is actually pretty nice. Sometimes in games when you press the Windows key accidentally, it can be pretty
frustrating. Uh if you're in a high intensity moment, then we have our ultra
low latency mode, which suppresses lighting power, reduces key input
latency as much as possible, and enhances control performance. I'm
surprised that the lighting power would reduce the input latency. Is that
something you Labs people have seen before? >> Uh, that checks out.
>> Yeah. Okay. Uh, and then we have our calibration. If we wanted to change our
key caps or our key switches, which is nice, even though they don't advertise
that it's hot swappable, this is actually a hot swappable keyboard. Uh,
you can calibrate and do that there. One nice thing is that there's plans for a
web app. So, you don't actually have to download and run this software on your
computer. You just open the web app, customize as you want, and it saves the
profiles to your devices. coming hot off a Razer mouse unboxing where I had such
a bad time with that software. That's wonderful. Not that this software is
bloated in any way, uh, at least to start. Uh, but having that option,
fantastic. That concludes the software. Let's play a game. Okay, this feels
pretty Oops. Oh god. Oh god. No. No. No.
I'm thinking too much. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god.
I was doing so good in the baby round. As a non- keyboard expert, this feels
like a premium keyboard. Uh the issues I'm having are me just panicking.
Uh not the keyboard itself. It feels like a very light press compared to what
I'm used to on the keyboards I use, but I use tactile switches and so it feels
very easy, very responsive. I haven't even talked about this knob. We have a
volume knob even though we don't have our sound on. That's the nicest knob
I've touched all day. Uh it's notched, which I prefer. Uh I like the feel of
having, you know, little tactile bumps along the way. And you can click it.
Although the click feels just okay, not
amazing. As a gamer who buys a pretty good keyboard, this is definitely in the
realm of very nice. Uh, but let's try the mouse out. That's what I know a
little bit more about. Uh, first impressions, this mouse is pretty darn
great. And that makes sense. The input latency is 1.17 milliseconds over
wireless and just a little bit slower over wire. But both are well within the
zone of very good. even if the keyboard is uh a little more impressive in its
own way for input latency. The keyboard's latency was tested at 1.44
milliseconds, but as you adjust the actuation point, we got our latency to
such a low point that we actually couldn't test it anymore. That's pretty
freaking cool. I got to say pretty quickly I've forgotten about this mouse
and it's just an extension of my gaming arm. I think this is definitely a great
candidate if you're looking for a pretty darn fantastic gaming mouse. It makes
sense when you look at the specs. It's got a custom PW 3950 uh called the 3950
IZ. We're not exactly sure what's different about that, but it has a 30K
optical sensor uh 750 IPS. It feels
feels great. This is a great mouse experience. Um this is definitely
something I would want to consider. Uh except for this one fatal flaw. Uh and
it's a pretty big fatal flaw. I'm not going to lie to you. Uh, we don't know
the exact pricing on this, but uh, the
best guess as of right now is this keyboard is $250
and this mouse is $150.
That's not dealbreaker price, but that's not we're going to disrupt the market
price. At $150, there's a lot of really good gaming mice that exist. Some really
good ones at about half the price, just like there's really good keyboards,
especially if you're using it for gaming. So, these are very premium
products, but I have to say I've been very pleased to use them. They feel
great. I think they look pretty great. As Sony's kind of first modern attempts
to do mouse and keyboards, these are pretty exciting. I can't wait to see uh
what they do next. Just like I'm excited for you to stick around and watch another ShortCircuit. If you like mice
unboxing, why don't you check out the one I recently did on the Razer Vertical
Pro Click V2. It's a pretty nifty,
unique gaming mouse.