Zoom98 SE Anodized Black

Sale price$245.00
4.5

NOTE: Barebones kit (unassembled) only includes stabilizers. Switches and keycaps are purchased separately.
LCD Screen is Default

We got feedback from the previous leak of renders about the Dot RGB design on the board. And we changed it to a telescope logo as customers want! However, we still used the original design for the real shots due to the modified version of the sample did not arrive during that period.
The mass production unit will be the telescope design!

Color: Anodized Black

Color

Weight Colors: E-white

Weight Colors

Hotswap PCB Type: Flex Cut Hotswap RGB PCB

Hotswap PCB Type

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Gasket Slip Design

Stability, ease of installation, durability, and long-lasting flexibility come together seamlessly.

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Per-Key RGB

The Tri-Mode PCB enables per-key RGB lighting, offering a diverse selection of colors and effects to enhance your visual experience. It is compatible with wired, wireless, and 2.4GHz modes, except for the wired PCB which lacks this feature.

NOTE: Telescope Logo Design instead of Dot RGB Design.

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Foam Included

PCB and Bottom Case are made of lighter PORON material. To reduce resonance, many tests were done on the foaming material this time. We made the PORON lighter and the foam pores dense. Every minor detail matters a lot, with the current poron, the sound is more concentrated and is deeper than with normal dampeners.

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Multi-Layout

Unlike traditional keyboards, you are not stuck with just one layout on Zoom98! Change things up every now and then withsplit (spacebars, back space, left shift, right shift),stepped caps Lock, ISO & ANSI enter.

01

Gasket Slip Design

Stability, ease of installation, durability, and long-lasting flexibility come together seamlessly.

02

Per-Key RGB

The Tri-Mode PCB enables per-key RGB lighting, offering a diverse selection of colors and effects to enhance your visual experience. It is compatible with wired, wireless, and 2.4GHz modes, except for the wired PCB which lacks this feature.

NOTE: Telescope Logo Design instead of Dot RGB Design.

03

Foam Included

PCB and Bottom Case are made of lighter PORON material. To reduce resonance, many tests were done on the foaming material this time. We made the PORON lighter and the foam pores dense. Every minor detail matters a lot, with the current poron, the sound is more concentrated and is deeper than with normal dampeners.

04

Multi-Layout

Unlike traditional keyboards, you are not stuck with just one layout on Zoom98! Change things up every now and then withsplit (spacebars, back space, left shift, right shift),stepped caps Lock, ISO & ANSI enter.

Customer Reviews

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Julian Ernstberger
Nice Keyboard

As a beginner I really like this keyboard. A few issues with the wireless connection not beeing flawless and the screen not having any real use for me.

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Daniel Marqusee

Love it so

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Stephen Mahanes
very nice keyboard for the price, but missing a few featurers

On the whole, I love this product. However, because of the pricetag and my experience as an enthusiast customer, I'm going to critique it heavily.

PRO:
-nice finish on the housing.
-extremely cool PCB that accommodates many layouts and options on a single design. As a geek, this is a huge highlight for the product.
-6 different options for the top plate.
-foam layers included, optional to install (installation guide makes them sound mandatory, but that could just be a translation issue).

CON:
-a few scuffs on the inside of mine, a rough edge here and there. Nothing that shows during normal use, all visible only during assembly / modification.
-screw closure to the housing makes disassembly / reassembly more of a pain. Other designs offer ball-catch systems.
-only one option for mounting the assembled PCB+Plate, and one type of gasket.
-No way to configure the LED brightness for the Telescope Logo, which is very bright compared to the rest of the illumination behind opaque keycaps.
-product page does not include any references to the JSON file needed to configure this board within VIA at time of writing, and no link to any way to work with the LCD screen installed by default. Rumor that the software for that LCD screen may contain a vulnerability or malicious code.
-"In Stock" may not mean what they say it means. I ordered mine as In Stock (not part of a group-buy), and it still took over 2 months to arrive. Support says they had to ship me a second one using a different carrier because the first was put on a container ship and something happened in transit.
-included cable kinda sucks. Competitors color match their cables to the color of the housing, Meletrix just includes a black one. A better cable would have cost them $2-3 wholesale because they can be bought for $4-5 from competing vendors.
-stock: most colors are unavailable at time of writing. Nearly no accessories are available either. I wanted to order some of the other modules to play around with, and at no point in the past 3 months have they been available for me to purchase.
-internal cable connections: battery, USB, and LCD cables are all very short and make connecting those components to the PCB a bit tricky. This part of the design feels like a prototype and would have benefitted from pogopins or a daughterboard in the bottom half of the casing. Once the board is assembled, this will never matter again so please don't let it deter you, but I have to acknowledge it as a fault in the design.
-light leaks from bottom lighting around side of PCB. Supposedly there are adhesive foam piece in the box to fix this issue, but the build documentation does not explain where those pieces of foam should be installed. I couldn't figure it out so I left them out, and as a result I have light leaks on the left and right.

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Lalliet Vila
Love this keyboard

I love the sound of the keyboard. It wasn't to difficult to put together. Has some issues with the stabilizers, getting stuck around the space bar and the enter button, and the program to change the lcd screen image. Besides that its great!