Software

On the ZywOo The Chosen Mouse, configuration is possible exclusively through a web driver, which connects through WebHID and therefore will, at least as of now, only work on Chromium-based browsers such as Chrome, Edge, and Opera (desktop).

All options are accessible through three different tabs. The first page allows for button remapping to mouse, keyboard, media, and macro functions. The second page houses CPI adjustment settings for up to six color-coded levels, ranging from 10 to 32,000 CPI in increments of 10. Values can be put in directly by clicking the value instead of using the slider, although non-native values will not be truncated to native ones. Also included are polling rate (125/250/500/1000/2000/4000/8000 Hz), LOD (0.7/1/2 mm), and angle snapping (on/off) adjustment options. "MotionSync" synchronizes SPI reads with USB polls, albeit at the cost of up to an entire interval of added motion delay. "Ripple control" is disabled by default, but can be enabled to apply smoothing, which lessens jitter at higher CPI steps at the cost of increased motion delay. The Mouse Rotation feature allows setting the sensor angle to a range of -30 to 30 degrees. "Scroll Accel" enables an acceleration curve for scrolling. The third page has power options. Idle time, which is the time needed to pass before the mouse enters sleep mode, can be set to a value between 30 seconds and 15 minutes in steps of a full minute. "Low Power Mode" designates the battery charge percentage at which Low Power Mode is engaged, which simply lowers polling rate to 250 Hz regardless of setting. Furthermore, the two dongle LEDs may be set to display polling rate, MotionSync, or LOD, as well as connection status, battery level, battery warning, or connection and battery warning. Lastly, profile management is present as well.

All setting changes are saved live to the on-board memory, and the web driver is able to connect to both dongle and mouse.

Battery Life

Pulsar does not cite any battery life numbers. The software features a percentage-based battery life indicator with single-digit accuracy, which appears to be decently accurate. After two hours of continuous usage at 8000 Hz, the indicator stood at 95%, and another three hours at 1000 Hz took it to 84%. This suggests that battery life between 1000 and 8000 Hz does not differ much—as corded sensor run mode is enabled throughout—and should amount to around 35 hours.

Sleep mode is entered after 30 seconds of inactivity by default, but this can be adjusted within the software.

Using the included USB Type-A to Type-C charging cable, I measured the charging speed during the constant current stage, which sits at 0.201 A when lifted and 0.191 A when not lifted. The battery has a capacity of 300 mAh (3.7 V) and utilizes a 3-pin JST connector.