Now Android Gamers Can Get a $99 Backbone Mobile Controller Too - CNET

The Backbone One mobile controller wraps astir phones arsenic a Nintendo Switch-like console peripheral, edging retired competitors similar the Razer Kishi 2 arsenic arguably the champion mode to crippled connected the spell -- though the archetypal mentation that launched successful 2020 lone worked with iPhones. At agelong last, Backbone has a caller exemplary built specifically to enactment with Android phones, and it'll beryllium retired earlier the extremity of the year.

The Backbone One for Android is virtually identical to the iPhone version, from the achromatic integrative quality to the other look buttons beneath the power pad and sticks. It works the same, too, allowing you to gaffe your smartphone into the controller betwixt the gamepad halves and straight link done the USB-C port. That makes for a much seamless acquisition with small to nary input issues oregon lag, dissimilar different mobile crippled controllers that link wirelessly via Bluetooth. Linking done USB-C besides passes chat and audio done the Backbone One's analog jack.

Backbone for Android is the aforesaid arsenic the iPhone version, but works with Samsung and Google phones.

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The Backbone One is compatible with "most Android phones from Samsung, Google and more," according to a property release; it's unclear which circumstantial models are compatible with the controller. Backbone didn't instantly respond to a petition for further comment.

The Backbone One for Android has the aforesaid $99 pricetag arsenic the iPhone version, and orders placed present are expected to beryllium delivered earlier Christmas. We'll spot whether Backbone follows it up with a DualSense-colored PlayStation Edition astatine immoderate point. 

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