this device right here is the future of mobile gaming on the iphone and not only
because i think this is quite literally the best solution for a gaming
controller for a mobile device like an iphone or an android device but also
because this is literally the direction that apple is headed with their own
patents that they have already filed so before we get into some real world
gameplay of some of the best mobile games out there showing you guys the
best features of the backbone one and why i think it's the best controller you
can get for mobile gaming i wanna explain what apple is gonna be doing in
the future and why this is the closest thing that we can experience right now
before apple's solution comes out in the future for years now we've been hearing
leaks and rumors that apple is gonna be working on their own actual gaming
controller from multiple sources like love to dream fudge and others but now
we finally have some confirmation that apple is getting closer and closer to
releasing their own gaming controller yes we recently got some patents showing
off some different ways that apple can create a game controller and one of them
is actually in the style of a nintendo switch where you have controls on both
sides of your iphone that sits in the middle exactly like this backbone one
but wait it gets even better because we got even more patents showing that apple
could be using magnets or in other words their new magsafe technology to connect
the iphone to a new gaming controller that has controls on the side which is
exactly what i think apple is gonna be doing and with that said let's finally
get into reviewing the backbone one and playing some actual games on it but
before i get into the games i wanna show you guys the design because this thing
is incredible first of all it's very lightweight and as you can see it is
very very slim and this backbone right here is very low profile so it's pretty
convenient looking at the top we have both l1 l2 r1 and r2 buttons right here
so you can use these as the triggers and you can use these buttons for whatever
you want to map them to going over here we have this layout of two joysticks
which is very convenient for first of all moving around and looking around we
have these general buttons and of course we have these for everything else that
you want to do including some menu buttons and everything else and the way
this works is you basically pull on it and it opens up to a massive size to
basically support any kind of phone you would like and this one of course is
with a lightning port so it's meant for iphones all you do is you grab your
iphone and i actually have a skin on and it works with the skin you basically
just line up the lightning connector just like this open it up
bam there you go you are done and ready to
go all right here we go and as you can see there's this little controller icon
showing that it automatically detected that we're using a controller and if you
really want to you can go into the settings go over to the controller and
map out all the controls and buttons that you want which is very nice but as
i get into a match the beauty of the backbone one is that it does not have
any batteries at all so it is literally powered by your iphone which is good for
a couple of different things first of all it means that you have a latency
free experience so there's no dealing with bluetooth connections or with a
battery that dies it literally just gets powered by the iphone and it's a
hardwired connection so it's not going through the air that means you're
getting the most reliable connection possible
all right so i'm used to playing this
with my hands
so it does take a little bit of practice but once you get it man this is
convenient i love how just responsive these controls are and i love how
everything's connected you know so you have your display
right in the middle and the reason that's important is because
with other setups
if you have a separate controller like an xbox controller in your hands you
kind of have to move your iphone around and set it up on some kind of stand but
literally the controller is the stand it holds everything up
and you get a nice immersive display right in front of you and the beauty of
that is you could literally oh i hear a guy
the beauty of that is that you can literally
walk around your house while playing of course man this thing is lightweight
i love that it's slim because other things like the uh the razer kishi that
is quite a bit larger i mean this makes it so much easier to aim to be honest
like this kind of gives you a competitive
advantage this is so amazing like this beats the xbox controller you got no
batteries got no bluetooth connection it's wired all the time powered by your
iphone but check this out you might be wondering what happens if you're running
low on battery well this thing actually comes with a pass-through
lightning charging port watch this you can see lightning port
right here and boom it is charging
that is amazing but wait it gets better you know
why because this thing actually has
a headphone jack now i know a lot of you guys have air pods already but just in
case you still have some of these wired headphones i was able to find these ones
let's see if it actually works so you can hear the audio
yep it works
i can't believe it this is so awesome all right so the experience on call of
duty mobile was pretty good let's actually test out genshin impact and see
how that is with the backbone one as you can see i'm in the settings i'm going to
switch to controller support working perfectly and i just love that it does
not rely on batteries so you're getting a hard wired connection with no latency
i think that's the best part so as you can see i'm going in here and
i just have all these convenient controls look at that
so that is pretty awesome but i'm not against an impact player so let's go and
play some of that new apex legends now that i'm here in apex legends i do want
to point out another awesome feature
because this backbone is so slim you actually can easily use the touchscreen
just like that while you have the backbone on so it's
actually convenient because some of these games like call of duty mobile and
apex they don't really support the controllers in terms of the actual ui or
the load screen while you're doing stuff so if you had a controller in your hands
then you had to go back to your display to go through the menus and stuff that's
kind of inconvenient but check it out i'm holding the backbone and i can
easily just use
use it just like that so this is awesome i just love this and i just love playing
on the iphone because in apex you actually get
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aiming in this game wait i ran out
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i also love how when you're not actually using it it folds down and it's just so
compact and lightweight you can throw it into any bag or wherever you want
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is that like a bob dude that guy was just running around we did it though
i mean this is just the most convenient gaming controller i just can't
stress that enough it's low profile it's hardware based so hardwired
no batteries no bluetooth
no latency it's got everything you need
pass-through charging headphone jack i mean i love this thing 100 on amazon
it's a little bit pricey but man so honestly if i was going to give this
thing a rating it would probably be around 9 out of 10 because so far
everything's been working great i haven't really noticed any flaws it's
lightweight fits perfectly hardwired i just love it so i think i'm going to
continue to use this thing for any type of mobile gaming that supports
controllers and i would recommend it to anybody who is considering getting a
controller because i would much rather buy this thing than some kind of xbox
bluetooth controller with batteries you don't have to worry about anything like
that with this thing and you can literally walk around your house
anywhere you want to go with this controller or on the bus wherever i love
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