[section_title title=”Closer Look”]Closer Look
The front of the G502 packaging doesn’t give much away about the design and what has resulted is the attention grabbing Proteus Core name. Along the bottom you can see the small wing shaped objects which are the weights.
The side of the packaging has the specifications of the G502.
Opening the box up we’re greeted with the G502 itself. There is no pesky blister packaging to work your way through, thankfully. You can see from this picture the nice aluminium finish the G502 has on the scroll wheel.
The G502 package includes the mouse itself, weights and the battery-looking magnet.
Closer inspection of the top gives us a glimpse of the scroll wheel, wheel lock, profile switch along the centre and the sensitivity buttons to the left.
The right side of the mouse is free of buttons but has a textured surface in place so it isn’t completely free.
The left side features your usual back/forward options as well as a ‘sniper’ button that defaults to a set DPI of your choice where your thumb should rest.
The underside of the G502 is extremely flat and the pads don’t even raise much from the surface of the mouse.
By pulling down on the blue ledge in the above picture you can access the weight slot. This is how the mouse looks with all weights inserted.
Last but not least, the expected braided cable and ‘thumbed’ USB cable finish.
The aesthetics of the G502 are a bit of a departure from the 602 in some ways and similar in others. The G502 certainly feels a lot more angular, maybe industrial, than the G602 but both have very defined buttons. Overall, the G502 feels like a slightly larger mouse, which is strange given it has no AA battery to house, but it still feels good in the hand and well built, true to Logitech standards.
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