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Lofree Touch PBT hands-on review: Stylish mouse with wireless weirdness

Excellent design, less than perfect implementation.

The Lofree Touch PBT mouse is a wireless mouse with a lot of visual flair, surprising ergonomics, and solid build quality. The Touch PBT mostly appeals to lovers of retro looks and mechanical keyboard fans. Lacklustre internals, a steep asking price, and some wireless connectivity issues make it difficult to recommend as anything other than a basic productivity or travel mouse.
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Verdict - More style than substance at a high price

Despite its minimalist looks, the Lofree Touch PBT wireless mouse is surprisingly feature-rich and comfortable to use. Its compact design, solid build quality, and wireless connectivity make it a promising candidate for a wireless travel mouse. It also tracks incredibly consistently across a variety of surfaces, with or without a mouse pad, but a buggy Bluetooth connection and laggy 2.4 GHz put a damper on the excitement. 

The Touch PBT is quite customisable, thanks to its interchangeable mechanical keyboard-inspired buttons and easily removable back panel, for which Lofree sells replacements in a variety of different themes. These customisations, along with the cute OLED screen for DPI adjustments and mouse status, make the Touch PBT a great option for those who value portability and aesthetics but don't need a high performance mouse. 

The Touch PBT's $69.99 price also makes it difficult to recommend, since there are alternatives with better performance for significantly less. 

Pros

+ unique aesthetic
+ solid build quality and materials
+ customisability
+ balances compactness and comfort well

Cons

- very susceptible to Bluetooth interference
- laggy wireless connection
- high price

Price and availability

The Lofree Touch PBT is available from both Lofree and Amazon at $69.99 in both the plain off-white Tofu colourway and the orange, grey, and cream Block colourway we tested. On Lofree's site, there are also $79.99 bundles that include alternative “keycaps” and top cases with three different design themes. 

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$69.99
LOFREE Touch PBT Wireless Mouse with USB Receiver, Bluetooth, Wired Connection, Rechargeable, 4000 DPI with OLED Screen Compatible with Glass Surface for Mac Windows PC Notebook/Block Retro Grey

The Lofree Touch PBT is a wireless mouse that puts aesthetics and build quality at the forefront. The Touch PBT has a nifty OLED screen for status and battery life indication and side-mounted backwards and forwards buttons for easier web navigation. The Touch PBT offers no software customisation, but buyers can swap out the back shell cover and the keycap covers for a touch of added hardware customisation. 

Specifications

Size 108 mm × 68.5 mm × 42.5 mm
Weight 105.5 g
Sensor PAW3805
Material Oil-resistant PBT, rubber scroll wheel
Buttons 5 mouse buttons (left mouse, right mouse, middle mouse, forward, back)
Connectivity USB type-C, 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth 5.0
Battery capacity Unspecified
Customisation software None

Unboxing and accessories

The unboxing experience of the Lofree Touch PBT is rather unexceptional, but not without highlights. The box features a nicely printed design, appears to be made with environmentally-conscious materials. Inside the box is the Touch PBT mouse with a very flexible paracord USB type-A to type-C cable. Aside from some documentation and a brief user guide, there are no other accessories. 

A nice sleeved box protects the Touch PBT mouse during shipping.
A nice sleeved box protects the Touch PBT mouse during shipping.
The box contains only the mouse and a small box with a USB cable.
The box contains only the mouse and a small box with a USB cable.
The USB type-A to type-C cable is sufficiently long and very soft and flexible.
The USB type-A to type-C cable is sufficiently long and very soft and flexible.

Comfort and general impressions

In terms of hardware, the Lofree Touch PBT is phenomenal from both a design and build quality standpoint. The decidedly retro colour scheme, tiny OLED display, and mechanical keycap-style mouse buttons give it a unique, charming aesthetic, and the mouse is very sturdy, thanks to thick plastic mouldings. The solid build quality and choice to use PBT instead of something like ABS mean that the Touch PBT still looks brand-new, despite over a month of heavy use. 

The Lofree Touch PBT is surprisingly small, although Lofree's product photography make it seem much larger than it is. Despite the compact size, though, it is comfortable to use in both a palm and fingertip grip, although users with larger hands will find it difficult to use the Touch PBT in anything other than a fingertip grip. Gaming isn't ideal with the Touch PBT, since the polling rate maxes out at 500 MHz, but it is perfectly acceptable for non-competitive games that don't demand peak performance. 

The Touch PBT's side buttons are set to back and forward, and there is no software for remapping.
The Touch PBT's side buttons are set to back and forward, and there is no software for remapping.
There is some sci-fi looking text on the right side of the mouse.
There is some sci-fi looking text on the right side of the mouse.
The feet provide good stability and slide freely enough over a variety of surfaces. Also pictured: On/off switch and connection mode button.
The feet provide good stability and slide freely enough over a variety of surfaces. Also pictured: On/off switch and connection mode button.

Wireless connectivity issues and battery life

The Touch PBT has both Bluetooth and 2.4 GHz wireless connectivity, and there is even a neat magnetic storage compartment for the 2.4 GHz dongle in the bottom of the mouse. Connecting to Bluetooth is quite simple and intuitive, and the connection was stable throughout our testing, but it was not without other issues. 

The biggest issues we encountered with the Lofree Touch PBT's wireless connectivity came from latency and interference. When connected to a OnePlus Pad for daily productivity tasks, the mouse would work fine initially, but connecting it to the tablet alongside another Bluetooth peripheral, like a keyboard, introduced significant lag that made the mouse unusable. There was also a minor increase in latency when using the Touch PBT connected via 2.4 GHz, compared to the wired USB type-C connection.

This means that anyone particularly sensitive to lag or input latency will be stuck using the Touch PBT in wired mode only. Battery life was also rather good, given the Touch PBT's compact size, and you can find a table below with observed battery drain and estimated battery life for the 2.4 GHz connection. Using Bluetooth would extend this dramatically, but it is not recommended due to aforementioned connectivity bugs. 

Connection mode Battery drain (%/hour) Estimated battery life (hours)
2.4 GHz (18 hours, 25% drain) 72
You can take the
You can take the "keycaps" and the back panel off to switch up the aesthetics, but normal mechanical keyboard keycaps are not compatible.
The little OLED display shows battery level, DPI, and connection mode, and the recessed orange button cycles between DPI options.
The little OLED display shows battery level, DPI, and connection mode, and the recessed orange button cycles between DPI options.

Conclusion

While the Lofree Touch PBT has some excellent retro aesthetics, decent battery life, and a surprisingly comfortable shape, we found some issues with its connectivity that hold it back. With a little more polish, or if you don't need to use the Bluetooth connection in conjunction with a Bluetooth keyboard, it could be a great wireless mouse for someone who often works away from their desk. The lack of software customisation and high price also make it a difficult recommendation. 

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The selection of devices to be reviewed is made by our editorial team. The test sample was given to the author by the manufacturer free of charge for the purposes of review. There was no third-party influence on this review, nor did the manufacturer receive a copy of this review before publication. There was no obligation to publish this review. We never accept compensation or payment in return for our reviews. As an independent media company, Notebookcheck is not subjected to the authority of manufacturers, retailers or publishers.

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Julian van der Merwe, 2025-02-28 (Update: 2025-02-27)