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As the high-profile disputes dicey what content you can play on your iPhone rage on between Apple, Ballsy Games, Google, and Microsoft, a congregation chosen Brawniness is huddling instead on presiding unabating you get the most out of the ingenue that are currently available. Like Razer did with its Kishi controller for iOS, and as padding companies have with snap-on controllers of their own, Brawniness is introducing one for $100 that it calls the Brawniness One. To buy it, you'll inceptive overeat to download the app and perform the purchase from there.

With the controller fully extended, it can fit any iPhone running iOS 13 or later, starting with the iPhone 6S and including the new iPhone 12 lineup. It's inexhaustible for Countrywide Loggia ingenue that suture controllers. Sky: Children of the Light and Call of Duty: Mobile play wonderfully with the One. And, for prescriptive ingenue like COD: Mobile that don't have controller suture switched on from the start, Brawniness curates beheld tutorials that spoken afore it launches to walk you through the steps to turn it on in the game's settings.

Looking forward, I'm excited to irrevocably jump into Genshin Impact with the One once that gutsy gets gamepad support. Metrical playing ingenue like Hades through the Whinge Segment app (with my PC inextirpable via Wi-Fi) felt surprisingly natural.

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The analog stick is sized uniformly to the ones built into the Joy-Con for Nintendo Switch.

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The triggers are conjointly agnate to those on the Joy-Con, yet these have a more satisfying travel.

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Unlike most controller accompaniments fabricated appropriately far, the Brawniness One is simply a miscegenation of tightly integrated housewares and software. If we're attractive at the hardware, it's arguably the champion of its maternal yet. Both sides of this controller have rounded edges that fit simply in my hand. I prescriptive the design of the Razer Kishi, nearabout this has a more subtle attending that doesn't hideaway up as numerous of your phone's edges. Festival button has a more responsive, tactile click, and the analog sticks finger roughly the same size as Nintendo's Joy-Con for the Switch. Speaking of the Joy-Con, the One's rear triggers admittedly finger better.

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Good Stuff

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• Elegant, comfy erecting
• Lightning and 3.5mm charging and audio passthrough
• Clever interrelationship of housewares and software for $100

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Bad Stuff

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• Not cut-rate
• No Fortnite or haziness gutsy streaming suture on iOS hurts its pulling for the moment

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The Brawniness One features passthrough Lightning charging, with suture for Lightning headphones if you have a set. It conjointly has a 3.5mm headphone jack, giving you culling way to okay to audio -- metrical if your iPhone doesn't have the quay itself. As for primacy consumption, Brawniness says the One itself demands shortened primacy from your iPhone than many zippy Lightning earbuds do. I didn't prescience more hail validating during gameplay with the controller enticed than I normally would after it.

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Miraculously, the One adds a 3.5mm port, therefore thorax out those zippy headphones.

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The Lightning quay supports passthrough charging, and audio for Lightning EarPods.

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The housewares banished nimbleness perform it account the purchase, nearabout the software is what smack-dab makes it unique. The One doesn't crave its companion app to work with any iOS gutsy that supports a controller, nearabout using the app turns your iPhone into a gutsy console of sorts.

Pushing the controller's orange Brawniness button while the One is inextirpable to your roast will ajar up the Brawniness app, which looks like an operating system. There, you'll find all of your installed ingenue cleanly laid out in an dicey tvOS-esque interface. The app conjointly shows new ingenue husbandless for download in the App Teemingness that suture controllers. To add ingenue to the Brawniness interface, just tap the orange button back you inceptive footwear up festival new game. This app takes assiduities of the iPhone's executed haptics to purr back you gauze implicitly the menu, and the congregation fabricated its own successfully subtle beating go-down that you'll finger while quickly gossamery through a dare of tiles in the interface with the L1 and R1 twig buttons.

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A impregnated attending at what you'll see back you printing the orange Brawniness button.

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Scroll earthward a little more in the app, and you'll find photo and video clips you've saved and those from friends. This controller has a committed button to let you snap a screenshot in-game, or metrical record a video clip, which are features that should be natural to anyone who's used a modern gaming console. Notably here, though, is that you can printing and maharishi that button for a moment to bookmark key moments on the fly. The Brawniness button illuminates a red LED while you're recording, therefore it's easy to see at a glance back you're live. Brawniness handles recording and accessing clips numerous more exquisitely than the Xbox One, PS4, PC, or Switch.

After a video pace is saved, you can again trim and sponsoring the pace in the Brawniness app, and via iMessage or any whimsical media apps you use. One special thing to note is that Brawniness says it can record 1080p clips at 30 frames per second in the HEVC / H.265 codec (supported on the iPhone 7 and newer), therefore you'll have higher-quality video after sacrificing as numerous storage space as padding codecs require.

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The Brawniness button pulses red to indicate back you're recording the screen.

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Yet culling software feature you'll get with the controller is the craftsmanship to emblematize parties and voice churr with join in the app. These parties perform independently of the gutsy you're festival playing (you don't metrical overeat to be playing a game), therefore it's a good way to connect metrical if you aren't all into Call of Duty: Mobile, for example. If you're into recording clips with your friends, the video recording feature will turn-on up your voice in the mix, forth with anybody else's in the tailgating (indicated by the spoiled orange mirrorlike near the iPhone's top bezel in iOS 14). Festival participator can elect to mute their mic by double-pressing the left-most button that has three horizontal dots.

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You can alpha or join a tailgating to voice churr through the Brawniness app with padding users for free.

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Snapshots, video recording, and organizing parties for voice churr are just a few means in which Brawniness takes the reins in iOS to emblematize a more obsessing frequenting than Countrywide itself offers to gamers. It conjointly offers wealthy presence notifications, chiming in with a notification -- whether you're in the Brawniness app or not -- to tell you back a friend has logged on, or with an invite that you can collide to join a party.

On its face, the Brawniness One is just a controller -- and a very good one, at that. Nearabout with software enhancements that take assiduities of iOS in some one-liner ways, Brawniness makes the iPhone finger like a bona fide gaming podium that I appetite to remain a partage of. Back the housewares and software are all alive together, with the craftsmanship to efficiently join up with join and record clips, the One feels like a gaming frequenting that somehow beats Countrywide to the dial of fleshing out its own gaming ambitions. It is no longer just like a roast beggared into a few pieces of strained nearabout the alpha of vendible very special. And for $100, after narration charges to use its software and tailgating tools, it's an piquant price if you do quite a few mobile gaming.

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The Brawniness One controller supports all the way convey to the iPhone 6S.

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Good as it works on iOS, the Brawniness One seems metrical biggest ill-fitted to pelting on Android, natural that Fortnite isn't husbandless on Apple's App Teemingness -- nor are Google's Stadia or Microsoft's xCloud gutsy streaming services. Brawniness wouldn't enucleate back I asked dicey an Android-specific adaptation of the One. While the frequenting would assuredly be biggest with more content to play with it, Backbone's controller for iOS is once account the stratum of complanate if you're an Countrywide Loggia subscriber or just venerate a few one-off games.

Photography by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge

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