Keychron’s T1 HE wireless trackball mouse lets users shift the ball

Keychron has introduced the T1 HE, a wireless trackball mouse on which the ball’s position can be adjusted. The Verge reports that the new model uses a 34mm ball and takes a more familiar trackball shape than the company’s first effort in the category.

That earlier device, the Nape Pro, was Keychron’s first trackball and was introduced at CES 2026. It used a slim, compact body meant to sit right up against a keyboard. The T1 HE is described instead as looking more like trackball mice already sold by companies such as Logitech and Kensington.

The detail highlighted in the available reporting is adjustability: users can change where the trackball sits. The account on hand is truncated and does not describe the adjustment range, the hardware that holds the ball, or whether the layout is intended for different hands or grips. Those points remain unconfirmed from this source.

A trackball keeps the mouse body still while the user rolls a ball to move the pointer. Ball placement changes which fingers do the work and how the wrist rests, so the option to move the ball is a fit question as much as a styling one. The Verge does not say how far the T1 HE’s ball travels or how the user locks a chosen spot.

Trackballs have long sat beside ordinary mice as a smaller category, with thumb-operated and finger-operated designs from larger accessory makers. Keychron, widely associated with mechanical keyboards, entered that space with the Nape Pro. The T1 HE is a second model, and the reporting frames it as closer to those established shapes than to the keyboard-side Nape Pro.

The T1 HE is identified as wireless. The source text does not specify the radio, battery life, charging method, sensor resolution, button count, or switch type. Nothing in the available copy should be read as confirming those specifications.

The model name includes the letters “HE.” This report does not define that suffix for the T1 HE, so it is not evidence of a particular sensor or switch technology. Any reading of the letters beyond the product name would go past what The Verge’s item states here.

For people who already use a trackball, a follow-up from Keychron suggests the company is staying in the category after the Nape Pro. Users who valued that first mouse because it could sit flush with a keyboard may find the T1 HE’s more standard outline a different compromise. Which layout fits depends on hand size, preferred ball style, and the space beside the keyboard, none of which this report measures.

What comes next is not stated in the text available here. The Verge item, as provided, does not include a ship date, a list of regions, or a price. A fuller product page or a later report would be needed to confirm how the ball is repositioned, what is included, and when the mouse can be ordered.