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amazon ASUS Falchion Wireless Gaming Keyboard reviews
ASUS Falchion: In the past few years, many manufacturers have rushed to build their own gaming “ecosystem” by expanding the product range and even entering the market of accessories for smartphone gamers, but not every company has achieved certain success.
Many companies have to “clean up” to stop these accessory products; others have to narrow the range of products participating in the market. Only ASUS is still the manufacturer that maintains a full range of products in its ecosystem, including models of gaming keyboards fiercely competitive from “accessory” brands such as Corsair or Razer.
Most recently, during the launch event of the ASUS ROG Phone 3, the company launched a mobile gaming keyboard with a size of 65% called ASUS Falchion, aimed at gamers who love “moving” but still longing to “fight” with familiar “weapons.”
One of the factors that bring success to ASUS’s gamer accessory products in the context that the market is always “full” of cheap products from lesser-known manufacturers. The design and quality of the company’s processing are always “carefully” with a distinct style, blending with the rest of the products in its ecosystem instead of outsourcing it. In short, it lacks its own “taste” like many other manufacturers.
So it’s no wonder that ASUS Falchion gives users a strong impression right from the moment they hold the “full box” product thanks to the luxurious packaging; the details are printed with the volume that seems… The weight is familiar, like having high-end video cards in hand.
In the process of “unboxing” the product, the new ASUS wireless keyboard model creates a big surprise for gamers when using the very popular low-profile switch design and even extremely “fashionable” on keyboard models released this year. Such as the Corsair K60 RGB Pro SE model that Biareview has introduced to readers recently.
The low-profile design that ASUS equips the ASUS Falchion with is a design that shows it is unsuitable for portable keyboard models because transportation and impact can easily peel off the keycap. In addition, especially the keys on edge are often affected by the surrounding environment, which the writer once encountered with the cheap 65% wireless keyboard model Infinity RK61.
Therefore, many 65% portable mechanical keyboards, such as Ducky with the “Year of the Rat” collection keyboard model or Filco with the unique Majestouch MINILA-R Convertible keyboard model, all choose this method, the surrounding edge much higher and thicker to protect the keycaps.
ASUS design engineers have equipped this mini gaming mechanical keyboard model with a protective cap and… a safety base for the keyboard to solve this problem. This design is simple but solves the problem that makes it difficult for many manufacturers quite thoroughly; at least, the writer has not encountered “unlocking” any time during the testing period.
As a detail, ASUS Falchion possesses almost all the elements a gamer would expect with a high-end gaming mechanical keyboard.
You will own a keyboard with a metal chassis, “brand name” Switches made by CherryMX from Germany with mechanical durability of up to 50 million clicks, built-in RGB LEDs on each button. These LEDs are all independently controllable via ASUS’ Aura Sync ecosystem backlighting to create your style.
Most especially, the keycaps are made of thick PBT plastic material with durable Double Shot printing technology, which is harder to wear out than the dye-sub thermal sublimation printing method on art series keyboards like Varmilo VA108M Koi.
Every detail on the keyboard model is designed to fit in a standard 65% chassis with a reasonable layout of function buttons. Even ASUS “crammed” a whole series of media control keys into the key strip from Q to U for fans of music and movies.
The most unique and brightest feature on ASUS Falchion, according to the writer, is the RGB LED touch strip equipped along the keyboard’s left edge with the main function used to increase or decrease the volume quickly. This feature is even more useful than the rollers on high-end gaming keyboards like the Corsair K70 RGB MK2 because users only need to use … the pinky finger to adjust the volume immediately without any fuss need to let go of the mouse-like when setting the wheel to the right.
The keyboard has two main operating modes: wired connection via USB Type C port and wireless connection via adapter using 2.4GHz band.
The USB Type C port, the keyboard power switch, and the wireless adapter are all “hidden separately” on a small concave cavity on the upper back of the keyboard, quite neat and not afraid of falling thanks to the attraction of the magnet.
In actual testing, ASUS Falchion performed excellently with wireless connectivity via USB adapter using 2.4GHz wave.
Although it does not possess a “proprietary” technology that reduces wireless connection latency like Corsair Slipstream, the ASUS portable keyboard model shows an almost instantaneous response with a delay that is difficult to distinguish when compared to operation via cable connection.
The feel of the keys is quite good with the concave keycaps. Furthermore, the spacing between the keys is appropriately arranged, making it easy for users to operate, just like using full-sized keyboards. Thus, making the most of many advantages of mechanical keys, providing a precise pressing feeling and better than other types of energy-saving pseudo-mechanical wireless keyboards like Corsair K57 RGB Wireless.
If comparing both the quality of design, processing, and typing feels in all wireless keyboard products that Biareview has ever sent to readers, only the mechanical keyboard model is Corsair K63 Wireless.
Another impressive highlight of ASUS Falchion is the extremely “strong” battery life of this keyboard model.
Although used continuously for nearly one week with fairly thick working and entertainment conditions with a usage time of up to almost 5 hours per day with a total use time of up to 30 hours. The writer can still use up the keyboard’s battery even though the “lights” are still operating at a high brightness level.
The writer has not had the opportunity to verify the ability to operate in power-saving mode up to 450 hours as “advertised” by ASUS. Still, the continuous use time of this keyboard model is certainly very long, even enough to satisfy e-sports athletes in travel events or long-term tournaments.
Overall, ASUS Falchion is a high-quality wireless mechanical gaming keyboard model with a 65% compact size, high-end design. Processing and working perfectly for a long time, satisfying for gamers who love to “move” have the most demanding requirements with their keyboard models.
As a high-end compact wireless mechanical gaming keyboard model, ASUS Falchion has almost no rival in its segment. Still, besides that, there are also a few issues that users need to consider before “spending” a keyboard to serve their mobile gaming needs.
First, this keyboard model only works wirelessly with the 2.4GHz wireless adapter without the common Bluetooth connection. That also reduces the “maneuverability” factor for the keyboard, especially when more and more smart devices can be used instead of laptops in everyday tasks such as tablets or iPads.
The price is up to 279SGD in the Singapore market or 8,250 pesos in the Philippines market; this is a keyboard model with a very high price, on par with the model. The current leading mechanical keyboard is Corsair K95 RGB Platinum XT and nearly two times more wireless gaming keyboard options from other brands.
Therefore, in the orientation towards the high-end segment, ASUS Falchion becomes “harder” than most gamers today.