Keychron swaps to ZMK firmware for new flagship wireless mechanical keyboards with massive battery life potential along with design refresh

[Redaktion]

Keychron has provided Notebookcheck with additional information about the new Q6 Ultra 8K, confirming new firmware, connectivity modes, and updated switches. Although the updated Keychron Q6 Ultra 8K and V1 Ultra 8K are exclusive to Best Buy for the time being, there will be a wider release with other models in early 2026.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Keychron-swaps-to-ZMK-firmware-for-new-flagship-wireless-mechanical-keyboards-with-massive-battery-life-potential-along-with-design-refresh.1159842.0.html

[Nobody Important]

Cool 1870's design being pitched as modern.  It's like Thomas Edison was peak intelligence for all of humanitys history, past, present, and future!

Gtfo with this antiquated design, its very existence offends me.

[ASK1970]

Nobody Important or no intelligence? You have a radical new design for an alphanumeric input device I suppose?

[julian.vdm]

Cool 1870's design being pitched as modern.  It's like Thomas Edison was peak intelligence for all of humanitys history, past, present, and future!

Gtfo with this antiquated design, its very existence offends me.

I have to say, I'm a little confused here. Even in stock form, there's a lot that sets these keyboards apart from...typewriters? Heck, if you really wanted to, you could slap some uniform height keycaps on them and try a new layout, like DVORAK, Colemak, or Workman. Like the other guy said, at the moment, aside from ortholinear, columnar stagger, or split keyboards, there's not much else you can do for physical inputs. I guess you could look into something like a chording or stenography keyboard, but that's just cruel and unusual punishment reserved for court scribes. That leaves weirdness like the Svalboard. I dunno, there are certainly options if you're into weird, novel keyboards.