Hello everyone it's SpawnPoiint and today we're taking a look at the official PlayStation Backbone
one controller. It comes with full support for the iPhone and the PS5 including the various buttons,
remote play and of course this awesome new design. I'll get this unboxed set it up and show you how
it works with the PlayStation app as well as a few non-playstation games. I'll also try and answer
some of the questions you might have had about this device. Now i've only been using this for the
last few days but i already think this could be the ultimate mobile gaming, or even PlayStation 5,
accessory to buy right. And here's the box, and straight away you'll notice it's clearly on
brand with the PlayStation 5. In fact it looks like every official accessory that we've seen
from Sony. Inside the box we get the backbone one controller itself, which looks awesome,
and then there's an adapter for the larger iPhones. A quick start guide and a safety
sheet. So first impressions on this controller, well, I really like the color and the design. I
know it's similar to the original backbone one controller but this has a nice clean black and
white ps5 design it also matches the dual sense controller if you're still using the white one
looking around there's the backbone logo on the front which will obviously be covered up by your
phone once it's installed and on the back there's a playstation logo which is a really nice touch
but yeah on first impressions i do like the look of this controller when it comes to setting it up
it's a simple plug and play pull the controller apart and just slide your phone in but just make
sure that it fits into the lightning port as this is how it connects to your iPhone it's not
via bluetooth now this controller does fit and support every iPhone since the 6s so anything
up to an include in the 13 pro max some iPhones will need an adapter to fit it due to the camera
bump but fortunately this adapter is included in the box i'm using the 13 pro max here and it fits
absolutely fine with the adapter although i did need to remove my case first and here's the iPhone
13 mini without the adapter to give you an idea of what the smallest iPhone looks like with it
once fitted you just need to go ahead and download the backbone one app as well as the playstation
remote player but i will cover more on that in a minute as for the controls we've got pretty much
every button you would expect to see it really is like a mini ps5 controller there's the d-pad with
that transparent design going on and these feel really nice and firm to the touch and then we've
got the triangle circle cross and square icons on the right now you might have noticed that the
thumb sticks are different to what you'd expect to see on an official playstation controller these
are more like the xbox or the switch controllers without asymmetrical layouts but they are also
very small and not as big as the normal console controllers but they are still clickable and feel
very firm we then have four extra buttons so one of these is the share or the screenshot button as
you'd expect to see on the ps5 and the other is a screen recording button this actually lets you
record your game play straight to your iPhone on the right side we have a dedicated backbone app
button which i will show you more on in a minute and next to that we've got the start or the menu
button across the top we've got the L and the R buttons or triggers which feel really nice and
these are actual triggers too rather than digital buttons so in some games like racing games for
example you have a more linear response rather than just an on or off right let me show you the
backbone app and the quickest way to do this is to use the orange button on the controller now this
app is optional it's not required to use with the controller at all it's actually very very
good the interface is nice and it carries over the playstation blue theme and you're able to
see all of the games and streaming apps available you can of course navigate around this app using
the controller or your touch screen and as you can see there are popular or feature games all
listed in the same app now not all of these are installed on my iPhone or on my PlayStation some
are just recommended games to download and play but as you can see here there's also the remote
play as well as the xbox app which if you tap it it will jump straight over to those apps instead
so to use the PlayStation 5 you will need the ps remote play app installed on your iPhone you
then need to make sure that on your console you have remote play enabled and that's on both the
PlayStation 4 or the PlayStation 5. without that it simply will not work so now you've got the app
installed you've got it set up on your playstation you need to click on the PS5 and it will start
searching for on your network and once it's found it will then switch on remotely and now as you can
see we've got full control of my PlayStation 5 via the iPhone obviously this feature isn't new we've
actually had this app for quite a while now but being able to navigate around with the backbone
one controller is so much easier at least it's far easier than using the touchscreen controls
on the phone so my PS5 is wired to my network which is going to be the best option when it
comes to reducing the lag and as i navigate around the dashboard it is near instant there's no delay
at all now both my iPhone and PlayStation 5 are on the same network but they don't need to be as
long as they both have a good internet connection you can still log in and play and if you want to
use your mobile data you can do that as well you need to go into the settings on the ps remote play
app and enable that under mobile data but again there's little to no lag and that's considering
i'm accessing the PS5 via my mobile data rather than the local wi-fi and while we're on the PS5
let me show you what these buttons do so the share button acts the same way as the share button on
the DualSense controller and that lets you capture gameplay and share it through the console then the
other button is for capturing gameplay directly to your iPhone so this is a really cool feature if
you want to keep it local and if you wondered what happens to the PlayStation 5 while you're logging
in remotely well it turns the console on as normal so anybody sat in the room would see exactly what
you were doing now playing games like WarZone is probably not ideal for remote play but the fact
is i can play them if i want to i mean the input lag on this is fast but it's going to still be too
slow for fps games where you need lightning fast reactions but any other games that you don't need
that instant response are absolutely fine Gran Turismo 7 for example well that works well and the
triggers feel great and as mentioned before the triggers or the L2 and the R2 buttons are linear
so you can adjust how much power you wish to use and why you're gaming you can of course use wired
or wireless headphones so if you have some air pods for example well you can obviously connect
those to your iPhone via bluetooth but if you have a pair of wired headphones well you can use a
3.5mil headphone jack on the controller itself and also while gaming you can still charge your iPhone
while you're playing as there's actually a pass through port on the bottom but yeah remote playing
games on here is easy fast and they look great the controller feels nice and balanced as well
it's not too heavy and not too cheap and plasticky it really is like having a portable PS5 in your
pocket but what if you don't have a PlayStation 4 or a PlayStation 5 or you just don't want to
use the ps remote app well you're not limited to just using playstation games you can actually use
other games in the app store now as long as the games you're wishing to play have controller
input support you can use it with pretty much anything so if you're on xbox for example well
you can use the xbox app to control your Series X or your Series S and play those games or if you
wanted to play some mobile games instead like cod mobile again this will work now i don't play this
game that often but the last time i did was with the RedMagic 7 mobile phone and that had inbuilt
shoulder triggers now that phone was really easy to use but this controller is on a whole different
level i've also tried a few apple arcade games and games from the app store and as long as the
controller support is listed they will obviously work well of course you've got other streaming
services you could use your iPhone as well as this controller with that includes stadia and
Nvidia's geforce now and as for the price where the backbone one is just under £100 or $100
when you buy it directly from their website it was actually the only place i could find them when i
bought one earlier this month and then delivery took just under three weeks now one hundred
pounds or one hundred dollars might seem expensive for a mobile controller but i feel it's actually
worth it with the design and the functionality that you're getting it also comes with a 30 day
no-questions-asked money back guarantee as well as 12 months warranty now of course if you've already
got an iPhone and a PlayStation 5 you don't technically need one of these controllers you
can of course use the remote play app on a normal controller and connect it via bluetooth it will
obviously work but it's not going to be as good as this dedicated backbone one controller so my final
thoughts on the PlayStation controller for iPhone is i really like it i mean what's not to love it's
on brand with the PlayStation 5. it fits my 13 pro max and it's small enough to store away when
i'm not using it i also think it's far better than just using a DualSense controller over bluetooth
so until Sony released an updated PS Vita this is the best and cheapest option right now but what
do you think could this be the ultimate portable mobile gaming accessory to buy and will you pick
one up for yourself drop a "Backbone PS5" in the comments and i will give you a thumbs up
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