Keychron has introduced a wireless variant of its Q1 keyboard. This Q1 Pro gets the same aluminum housing with gasket mount, but also gets Bluetooth support in addition to a USB-C connection.
The Keychron Q1 Pro showed up on Kickstarter on Tuesday and has quickly reached its crowdfunding goal. The Q1 Pro bears a resemblance to the existing Q1 apart from the addition of Bluetooth 5.1, which allows users to wirelessly connect up to three devices to the keyboard. According to Keychron, the Q1 Pro offers a battery life of up to 300 hours without using RGB LEDs. With lighting, the battery life is up to 90 hours, says the manufacturer. The keyboard can be used wired as well, and it takes five hours to charge the keyboard via USB-C.
The Q1 Pro also gets a 75% layout without a numpad and has an aluminum housing with a black, gray or white finish. ISO and ANSI versions will be available. However, only a barebone option of the ISO version will be available. The barebone variant eventually gets a suggested retail price of $179.
Like the existing Q1, the Pro variant can be supplied as barebone without switches or keycaps. The manufacturer is also introducing a pre-built version of the Q1 Pro with pbt keycaps and its own K Pro switches, while the Q1 comes with Gateron switches. The company comes with a linear K Pro switch and two different tactile switches for this. The keyboard also contains hot swap sockets, with which the switches can be exchanged without soldering. The keyboards support QMK and VIA and are therefore fully reprogrammable.
