Our contact told us there has been a lot of feedback about wanting companion software for customizing settings, so this is planned for development in the future. The single DPI button means that you can’t have a low-DPI sniper mode and mid-DPI repositioning mode that can be switched between with a single click. The mouse wheel acts as the middle button and is joined by a single button to cycle through DPI settings. The button selection includes the essentials for a gaming mouse, but those who want to bind more than a couple of actions will feel that the layout is too spartan. The cooling fan creates light air movement onto your palm

The final product will have the ability to reduce the lighting brightness or switch it off completely, a welcome addition since our manufacturing sample is a bit distracting later at night without these features. The user can rotate the lighting to various combinations of pulsating, breathing, rainbow, solid, and so forth. The scroll wheel and side sensitivity lights are a solid colour which changes to indicate what DPI sensitivity is selected. These LEDs also glow through the honeycomb and the transparent plastic fan blades. There is a strip of RGB lighting running around the outside of the left and right-click buttons. I tried squeezing firmly, and there was no give under what would be considered reasonable pressure. There are a series of cut-outs designed in a way that reduces the weight while still maintaining structural rigidity. Whether that’s true or not, the matte finish helps offset the shiny RGB.

The body material is all matte plastic, supposedly to make the mouse easier to clean. The Zephyr is a neutral/non-ergonomic shape mouse, which is often popular with those who don’t like the way an ergonomically angled mouse dictates their hand angle. The Zephyr Gaming Mouse can be found on Kickstarter. UltrabookReview received no payment for this review, and Zephyr wasn’t shown a copy of this article before publishing. They are making changes to the final product based on feedback from reviewers, and we have tried to note the changes of which we know. Zephyr was kind enough to send us an engineering sample for review.

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