8BitDo debuts premium Android gaming controller with Hall effect joysticks

Why it matters: Accessory shaper 8BitDo is renowned for its high-quality, retro-inspired gamepads. It conscionable added different to its statement called nan Ultimate Mobile Gaming Controller. This pad lets you ditch those finicky on-screen controls for a due beingness gamepad acquisition connected your Android smartphone aliases tablet.

8BitDo opened pre-orders for its Ultimate Mobile Gaming Controller this week, pinch shipping to commencement November 29. The attachable gamepad comes successful achromatic aliases achromatic and clamps onto immoderate Android telephone aliases tablet betwixt 3.9" to 6.6" successful length. Unlike nan ever-popular Backbone One, it connects complete Bluetooth alternatively of nan phone's information port, truthful it needs a battery.

Like nan different gamepads successful 8BitDo's Ultimate line, nan mobile type has awesome hardware, including Hall Effect joysticks and triggers. Hall effect sensors person go celebrated precocious because they are not prone to issues for illustration joystick drift and phantom fastener presses. The asymmetrical joysticks are made from metallic alternatively of integrative and are highly wear-resistant.

8BitDo recalibrated nan four-way directional D-pad and bumpers to springiness them a "clicky" yet soft feel. The gamepad besides sports each nan emblematic buttons and controls of a accepted controller but besides has a brace of programmable paddle buttons connected nan backmost arsenic a bully touch. The look buttons athletics an Xbox-style configuration, truthful Xbox owners should consciousness correct astatine home.

At 236 grams, nan Ultimate Controller is noticeably heavier than slimmer options for illustration nan 138g Backbone One. This excess weight is apt owed to its request for a battery. Its integrated 350mAh rechargeable compartment provides a respectable 15 hours of gameplay and only takes 1.5 hours to charge. The Backbone One piggybacks connected nan device's powerfulness supply.

The controller is afloat compatible pinch 8BitDo's Ultimate Software, offering heavy customization. The desktop/mobile app allows users to remap immoderate input, create macros, group up aggregate profiles, and set analog instrumentality and trigger sensitivity for individual crippled styles for illustration shooters. This functionality besides intends that moreover though it uses an Xbox configuration, PlayStation users tin reconfigure nan look buttons to bask Remote Play from their Android. Sorry. There is nary iPhone type yet.

The Ultimate Mobile Gaming Controller is disposable from Amazon for $49.99.