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Aug 16

ROCCAT Power-Grid Android version on its way, we go hands-on with the keyboard-augmenting app (video)

ROCCAT’s plans to fight back against Razer’s glowing customizable macro-keys and touchscreens are nearing the finish line. Here at Gamescom, the mouse and keyboard maker’s Power-Grip app was at a nearly-finished stage on the iPhone. Better still, the Android version was close behind it — although it was slightly less polished. The idea is to add a wealth of touchscreen widgets and quickly viewable data to your smartphone, sidestepping the need for pricier hardware solutions. That said, there are plans for ROCCAT to create some happy medium between the rogue smartphone interface and its more standard keyboard, with ideas gravitating towards a docking space for your phone built into the keyboard. We took the slightly more temperamental Android version for a spin on ROCCAT CEO Rene Korte’s Galaxy S III — check what the app’s likely to offer on its December release in our hands-on after the break.

Gallery: ROCCAT Power-Grid hands-on at Gamescom 2012

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Aug 15

ROCCAT’s new Kone Pure mouse streamlines things, while ISKU FX keyboard adds some color (hands-on)

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ROCCAT’s latest addition to its family of mice is the Kone Pure, toned down to 91 percent the size of the original Kone. Now both smaller and flatter, it’s dropped the menu button above the four-direction scroll wheel, and that scroll wheel now goes only up and down. It’s a trade-off, but ROCCAT has added a new ‘easy shift’ side trigger which it hopes will ameliorate that fall in the button-count. This acts as a mouse-based shift function and you can customize how all of the device’s other buttons behave when the side-trigger is depressed. ROCCAT also threw in a new FX version of its ISKU keyboard here at Gamescom, adding some customizable color skills and upgraded keys that are far more legible when not backlit — a common complaint with the original ISKU keyboard. Switching from black to white fittings under the keys has also improved the keys’ visibility. Take a tour of both devices in the galleries, then jump after the break for a little more detail — including a new prototype.

Gallery: ROCCAT Kone Pure mouse hands-on