Well a little bit later then expected but this is part 1 of a multipart review. How many parts... I have no idea. Consider this an overview from my perspective. My counterpart Cardnyl Sin will be going into the n52 in more depth and testing more rigorously. My job though is to tell you if this pad is manageable... Happily I can report that most of the rumors I heard about this pad being unbalanced or that the manufacturing was not up to snuff are false. After 2 weeks of testing my only real gripe is the thumb button that doesn't seem to be as responsive when mashed from different angles. I have fairly large hands which places my thumb towards the outside of button 15. The n52 was much easier to depress at any angle then the n52te. I have found that Adjusting the hand rest of the n52te does help with this problem. Simply pull up on the molded hand rest and move it back a notch. Not perfect but I have noticed that I am much more accurate on that button now. Adjusting the hand rest is something we never even knew the n52 was capable of... and it took Cardnyl prying it apart before we discovered what the box meant by adjustable. My other gripe with the n52te was the software. Surprisingly missing a shift state is not really that noticeable. The first version of the software we received was a pain in the ass though. Took me several tries to get everything synced up on the pad... and I was very unsure how everything worked. However Joseph Lu from the Belkin Team has been very responsive getting us new versions of the software as well as taking in our concerns which we have actually seen corrected in later versions. This is a huge change from the n52 which was simply released and ideas and suggestions simply met the black hole of the internet and disappeared. I love the fact that they have a dev team actively working on their software... granted I still think it needs some usability polish. Now that I have my gripes out of the way I can go into what I like about this pad. On the software end I love being able to set my profile for World of Warcraft or Eve Online and forget it... If I take it over to the girlfriends house or to a Lan and plug it in it works as advertised... recognizes the game loads the profile and your playing. I love the onboard storage idea. I used to keep a memory key with all the n52 drivers and software and my profiles on it so I could do much the same thing. Especially since I found that once you use the n52 you find yourself unable to play the game as effectively without it. The same is true for the n52te given a week or two to adapt to the keys. The new n52te is back lit and while it looks cool as hell its not all that necessary after you have adapted to the pad. After about a week of using this pad you will become very used to the key placements and looking down to make sure your on the wrong key will be a thing of the past. In addition the force required to press the keys is much lighter. This gives the pad a more fluid feeling to it. As if you could press a combination of keys quicker and more accurately then before. This is not just a feeling though, the travel of each key you pressed has also been reduced. Overall I when I first got this pad in the mail I flipped back and forth between the it and the n52... I still felt more comfortable on it for a good week or so and used it for Arena matches in World of Warcraft. After the acclimation period this pad was just as deadly as the my old n52. Stay tuned as we are talking to Belkin and may be able to get some n52te's to users on the Forums. I am not sure how we will pick and choose but I imagine a contest of some type. Next up... Cardnyls indepth review which may take a bit longer to get out as he has been talking back and forth with belkin and seeing improvements. If you have recently purchased an n52te join us on the forums. We have at least one good discussion going for those testing the n52te. ~Cerias Shadows.