Logitech t620 Touch Mouse for Windows 8 Unboxing & Demo Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,286 words · ~6 min read
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Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Logitech T620 touch mouse. This is
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designed for Windows 8 and optim that's basically Windows 8 compatible and you
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should use it with Windows 8. It has six customizable gestures for the top of the
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mouse surface. Full touch design for smooth control, a multi-surface
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tracking. Oh, okay. So that means the laser or optical or whatever it is in
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there. Laser. laser grade optical sensor. Okay, so it's optical, but it's
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a really good one. So, the optical sensor can track on pretty much anything. You can scan the QR code to
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learn more. Uh, it uses the unifying receiver, so you can connect up to six
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Logitech compatible devices, whether they're keyboards, mice, remotes,
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whatever else you want to do using that one little dongle in your computer. Full
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touch surface lets you naturally swipe, scroll, tap, and click wherever your
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fingers rest. Glide through Windows 8 with intuitive gestures for vertical and
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horizontal scrolling, start screen access, app switching, and more. smooth
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rounded shape for comfortable handling and gesturing. And this shows you some
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of the gestures. So there's vertical scrolling and horizontal scrolling. Back
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and for oh back and forward swipes, Windows 8 start screen in the middle and
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then app switching where you can swipe in from the left. So let's get this bad
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boy opened up and find out just how awesome it is. We've got an Windows 8
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notebook here. So we can try it out pretty much immediately. And I have no
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idea why that's there. And I don't know
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what's going on here. So, there's double A batteries. So, it runs off doubleA.
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So, you could just use rechargeable AA's, but if it's anything like Logitech's recent products, it's going
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to run for like a billion years on batteries anyway. So, um yeah, it's been
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a long time since I've replaced any batteries on a Logitech. It's funny, they don't call that out on the
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packaging or anything, but So, insert batteries, attach battery door, power on
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the mouse, plug in the receiver, and we're going to do all that stuff, and we'll be back in a moment. There's a
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little guide in the manual showing you most of the functions, but if you open
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up the set point software swapware software, it actually shows you
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everything you can do. So, you can middle click uh click the lower 2/3 of
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the touch surface with two fingers. So, I'll show you guys everything that we're
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doing. So, for example, you can middle click to open up a or to close a browser
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window. Middle click. Done. So you just put your fingers there and you actually
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the whole the whole mouse only
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has one click and it uses the touch the
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uh the touch sensitive surface on the top to determine what you want to do. So
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that's why this is a middle click. This
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is a right click and this is a left
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click. See that? Very cool. So it just goes, oh, there's only something on the
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right side. That must be a right click.
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Very very cool stuff. Okay, so back to
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uh back to set point which I can access by maybe going actually I don't remember
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where we left that. We left that on the desktop, right? Okay, so let's go back
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to start. There we go. Back to
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the Okay, let's go back to the desktop. And
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I really don't Oh, right. Slick always hides a start menu. So that's why I'm
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having trouble with this. Okay, so middle click. Here we go. So double tap
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the 2/3 surface, lower two/irds of the touch surface with one finger. You can
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set all kinds of different cool stuff. So check this out. Double tap lower
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2/3. And does it not like it if I pick it
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up? Oh, there we go. Yeah, apparently doesn't doesn't like that. Doesn't want
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to work if I pick it up. But there you go. Double tap in order to start.
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Show/hide the desktop. You can set something up if you want, but we don't
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have anything set up. Switching applications is done by swiping from the
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left edge of the mouse with one finger. So, I better keep it here. Sorry, the
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laptop's not level, which is making this hard. There we go. So, I just swipe like
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that to switch between applications. Very cool stuff. Okay. Show charms is
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swiping in from the right edge with one finger. So, this will make accessing the
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charms menu a billion times easier than if you have to kind of go to the corner
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and then wait for it to pop up and then Yeah. So, you just want to do that.
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Okay. Then for movement, you can actually use it for vertical scrolling,
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horizontal scrolling, and back and forward. So, let's go to a browser. So,
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we're going to do our let's close set point. And then
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we're going to do our double click. Then, we're going to go
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to scroll over here. You probably don't
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even have Internet Explorer here, do you, Slick? Yeah, you use Nightly. All right,
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good for you with your Firefox pre-alpha. There you go. Okay, so all we
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got to do is, you know, go to some, I don't know, some page or something. And
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then check it out. So, we showed you scrolling inside the Windows 8 UI. Now,
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we can show you scrolling on a page. Just like that. Don't have to have a
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physical mouse wheel anymore. No big deal. And I accidentally clicked, but
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it's okay. Okay, don't let that sort of take away from the coolness of this
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experience. And then back is done with two fingers to the left and forward is
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done with two fingers to the right, which I have a little bit of trouble with. I find forward a little bit
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awkward, but I don't have much trouble with back. It'll take some getting used
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to. Oh yeah, I did it before. There we go. but it's a totally new way of
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interacting with your computer using the mouse to enable the touch features of
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Windows 8 without actually having a touchscreen monitor. So, thank you for
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checking out my unboxing and first look at I completely forget the model number
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now. Thank you of the T620 touch mouse
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from Logitech. Don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings, reviews, and other
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computer videos. And I don't think I ever showed this, but it has an onoff
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switch. There's uh the batteries are sort of here and you can store your
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unifying receiver here if you want to use it as a notebook mouse and sort of
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carry it around with you. So you just kind of chuck that in there and then you don't have to worry about it getting
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lost. So close that and uh I don't think
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I ever gave you a close look at it overall actually. So there you go.
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That's what the mouse looks like and then you can put it in your little carrying bag and it will be protected
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because it's a touchcreen surf or touchscreen touch surface. So you don't
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want to sort of wreck it. And we're done.