Razer’s New Wireless Keyboard Is Hot-Swappable and Sports an OLED Screen

Razer demoed a bunch of caller products astatine RazerCon past week. Trust me, it was 2 packed hours of going array to table. But the BlackWidow V4 Pro 75% keyboard was 1 of the releases that stuck with maine till mode aft the event. Even aft an full week today, I was harassing my coworker into looking astatine each its pictures connected my phone.

The BlackWidow V4 Pro 75% is simply a wireless, hot-swappable gaming keyboard with an OLED screen. Hot-swappable means you tin regenerate each its switches and keycaps if you privation to personalize it. This isn’t Razer’s archetypal hot-swappable mechanical keyboard. The predecessor to this keyboard, the BlackWidow V4, was the company’s debut gaming keyboard with hot-swappable keys, though that was a wired model. Razer besides isn’t out-innovating rival gaming peripheral brands with the OLED display. The SteelSeries Apex Pro already offers one.

Razer’s caller keyboard besides boasts its proprietary HyperSpeed and 4K Hz HyperPolling tech. The Chroma RGB connected this instrumentality is beauteous modular crossed galore different Razer keyboards. You get per-key illumination and a two-side underglow. You tin usage the Razer Chroma app to customize the lighting and make aggregate lighting profiles. A brushed plush leatherette wrist remainder with precise generous padding magnetically attaches to the bottommost of the device.

The OLED show is situated adjacent to a Command Dial that lets you scroll done settings and person your actions amusement up connected the screen. You tin usage the dial and show for rapidly checking PC oregon keyboard-related stats and for changing keyboard settings specified arsenic polling complaint oregon RGB Chroma profiles connected the fly.

Offering multi-point connectivity, the BlackWidow V4 Pro 75% tin wirelessly link to up to 3 devices simultaneously, adjacent portion it’s being charged. You’re apt not going to scope for a socket excessively often, though. Enabling the Power Saving Mode connected the instrumentality turns the OLED show and RGB off, and pauses connection with the Razer Synapse companion app. In this mode, it seemingly lasts 2,100 hours earlier you’re tethered to a socket again.

Razer’s latest keyboard ships with its proprietary Orange Tactile Switches Gen-3, but tin beryllium replaced with some 3- and 5-pin mechanical switches. This keyboard was pre-shipped to a fistful of YouTubers whose channels are astir customizing keyboards, and immoderate of them were contiguous astatine the demo to showcase their last results. It was highly absorbing to look astatine the scope successful design. The endless gamut of personalization possibilities that travel with a hot-swappable keyboard is huge.

The Razer BlackWidow V4 Pro 75% is present unfastened for pre-orders connected the Razer tract and successful Razer stores. It retails for $300 and volition go disposable connected September 24.