Wireless is wonderful for, say, your gaming mouse, headset, and controller but less so for your keyboard. Between managing input latency and battery life, a wireless keyboard would have to be something pretty special to win me over. Well, Cherry is trying their chances with what is likely the world's first Ultra-Wideband gaming keyboard.
Revealed during Computex, the Cherry XTRFY K63W Pro Compact is a 70% wireless gaming keyboard. The favoured 2.4 GHz connection of many wireless PC peripherals can make for a cluttered band of the radio spectrum, potentially leading to connection issues between your devices. The K63W Pro Compact's Ultra-Wideband connection attempts to sidestep all of that.
That said, I can't say I've personally fallen afoul of a cluttered 2.4 GHz frequency at my own setup, and I suspect this Ultra-Wideband functionality may have niche appeal. We've seen the wireless tech predominantly in 8 kHz gaming mice before this, such as the Read Entire Article
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