Welcome. So in front of me I have the GameSer X2 Bluetooth controller. It's specifically designed for phones and
I was going to make an unboxing but to be honest I have been using this for I believe like close to
actually over a week right now. So this is more of an overview afterwards. I will kind of just
demonstrate the yes what's in the box obviously but it's pretty simple packaging so there we
We do have a little nice pouch right here. It's a hard case, so that's pretty nice
And inside we get the actual controller. So if I take it out, the little rubber band might not be the best kind of addition right here
It kind of catches on the edges. Now there we go. So there's our controller
As you can see, it's the telescopic one. So it stretches. And it can fit basically the chunkiest phone
the chunkiest phones that can possibly think of. I do have one specifically right here that I think it's the biggest phone right now on the market
I could be wrong but if it's not, obviously it's going to be very close to one
And it will fit in here no problem. And we also get these little things so we have a rubber tips on here that you can put on
the joysticks. So we have a convex ones by default. As you can see, let's move that out of the way
So these are... Camera, come on. So these are convex and we get concave ones
Personally, I have been using both of them for about the same amount of time, so half half
And I started off with these ones, but I do have to say I think I prefer the convex ones more
rubber on here is a little bit better, at least for me, where my finger slips less
These ones are bigger and kind of feel nice at the beginning, but just, I don't know
something about them for me, it doesn't really suit my needs as much, so I prefer them off
So, at least make my fingers slip way less, so yeah, I prefer that
Now, a couple notable things. the version I have right here is a Bluetooth version of it
so it does have a built-in battery and it needs to be charged unfortunately
there is one that basically has either a lightning port I believe that's what iPhones use
or a type C for phones whichever one you have those don't need any kind of battery
they don't need to be charged or anything they just use the charge of the phone to power itself
now as far as I'm aware there is no vibration motors in these
which I think it's pretty nice because or it would be pretty useless if they added it
because there is a spring and it's a little bit of a hollow build. You can kind of hear
the spring just rattle in there. If there would be a vibration motor, that would be just the most unpleasant
sound you could probably imagine. So yeah. And additionally, build quality of this is pretty nice. We have
xY b or a and b and we have the two different joysticks we have a epaubr right here and we have a
button the right and left button and then we also have the right and left trigger and just to kind of go into it the triggers themselves are clicky so they're not like what's the name linear or whatever uh they're basically have an either on or off position they don't have like the in between like for instance xbox or
or PlayStation controllers do where you just press it halfway and it's just kind of giving half of the input or
however you want to like close it call it so as an example in racing games if you press this it's either
full throttle or no throttle at all opposed to what you normally have like an Xbox controller
where you just press it halfway and it gives you half of the throttle for some that might be a bummer
honestly for like phone gaming and I don't mean like racing games I haven't really needed it
obviously for racing games this probably would be a very nice thing to have but for that there is a
pro version of it so the gameser x2 pro which does have this kind of triggers so obviously that's
one of the downsides honestly to me like I said it didn't really bother me and I've used this for
majority of the week. And like I said, extensively use this. Additionally
battery life on here, it's pretty nice. I think I charged it like three times
throughout the week or so. So the battery lasts pretty well. And probably one of the reasons why the battery
lasts a decent amount of time here is because, like I said, it has no
rumble, no vibration motors, so it's only sending input it or whatever you press to the phone
over Bluetooth. Now, I've been using this with my fold 4 for the majority of the time, or actually for the entirety of the time
And this phone probably you might be thinking it's pretty big. Not really, not in a grand scheme of things
There are phones that are bigger. So because the way you put it in is just not going to be unfolding it
So you put it like this, right? I mean, if you unfold it, it's the same size. But when it comes down to it, for instance, this is a real me device, and this one is bigger
As you can see, it would need to stretch it further to fix it or fit it
So just to kind of showcase this. As you can see, this requires more of the actual thing to be stretched
So there we go. Now, unfortunately, I was unable to use this with this device specifically
just because for some reason, G4Snow, which is what I've been using primarily
did not work on a Reelme. also doesn't work on one plus
G4s now give a bullshit excuse that at least they did for the
1 plus that oh it's running Oxygen OS which like I said it's a bullshit excuse
because Oxygen OS it's not like its own operating system it still Android so Nvidia fix your shit and stop making bullshit excuses that it running on whatever It still Android Majority of us users aren an absolute bunch of idiots so your excuse doesn really fly
Now, what I did receive recently right here is a S23 Ultra, which this is an absolute unit of a device
And even with the biggest phone that I have on hand, the biggest one that I can also think
think of, it fits in here, no problem. I mean, well, maybe not no problem
It's starting to stretch its limits. No pun intended. But as you can see, it still fits
And the only downside that I found out recently with this is
you have a camera, all of them have a bump. And no matter where you put it, it doesn't really sit well
Now, if your camera bump is located a little bit lower, that wouldn't be such a problem because it would fit in this gap right here
Now talking about this gap, it's one of those things that did, there were a bit of a downside
to this device, meaning the controller. So just quickly, while I'm doing this, I'm going to quickly launch this
So when it's stretched out like this, no matter what the device is, the way you hold it
at least the way I did, is kind of like this with my pinky right here
And this is a relatively like sharp edge right here. Or, you know, it's a 90 degree
So it's not as comfortable for your finger to rest here. I either have like prop it up with your phone right here or..
Come on. There we go. Or just hold it at the back
So you have to hold it in like a weird position so you don't really get to have your finger rub against this
Now obviously better fix would be to have this at an angle kind of like rounded up and this
have like a cut in there so it would just fold on its own but it's not and that's one of the downsides
right here but in terms of gaming just turn it on now I already paired it so it will connect
or should connect automatically now downside of a g-force now is that once you connect a controller
of like do this come on gesture navigation please work there we go I'm gonna
select it we're gonna resume and now it should work fine for some reason when
you connect when your g4 now is already open and you connect to it it won't come
out it won't like automatically connect to it so you need to like go into recent
apps and then reopen it There we go. Now additional downside here, at the controller itself, which is not the case for the Pro version
It has its own kind of weird named buttons. So we have S, we have a G
So these are basically equivalent of Xbox buttons, so they're like the Mini and other one
And we do not have a Xbox home button, as you have like the with the logo
The Pro version does have it right here. one does not work as such it just switches between I believe profiles which if you have
an application there is an application for this this will allow you to just assign I guess
different profiles and from there swap it around which might be very good to have if
for instance you play some mobile game that does not have support for an actual
controller because right now the phone is working with this as though this is an
Xbox controller. As you can see the buttons on here will be Xbox like so we have x
Y, A, B and so on. And other than that the controller works just flawlessly. Now
downside of a G-Forse now is that you need an internet connection and a pretty okay one
I have been using G-Fords now on the absolutely worst internet connection I could ever imagine
And it still worked though I needed to go through hoops to
basically make it work. So I lowered down the bitrate to like six, I believe it was
with a smaller resolution just so I can run it, and still it was struggling. But right here
at work where I am at right now, with a gigabit internet, even though it's being shared between
everybody that is here, it's still working pretty well. You can possibly see a little bit of a delay
Obviously, it's still being streamed from Nvidia servers to the phone. and also on a Bluetooth connection so there might be a couple things that add input lag to it but
in general when you're playing this it's not as as bad as you might imagine can actually
turn off the lights a little bit hopefully this will make it look a little bit better
and for some reason this is Mac's brightness but the phone is still trying to
to control the brightness. So I'm just going to run through it a little bit
Like you can see this, the camera can barely see this. Now I believe this is just due to a
dynamic range of the camera. I can actually see what's right here, personally. But like I said
I think the... no, it's very hard to get it. So yeah, I can see this very clearly this looks way better than it does on the camera, obviously, but quickly just going through here
Let's see, we got this guy right there. Yeah, this is basically being like hacking and stuff like that
So, but obviously, yeah. you can see it works pretty well. One downside that I have to say about
G-Force now as an example because that's what I've been using for the most part
is they kind of of a not very consumer approach So if I go into settings I right now running at a resolution of video right here
This is right now running at 1680 by 720p. Obviously significantly lower than the resolution of this phone's capability
And another thing that annoys a living hellatomy about G4's now is the
their bullshit way to lock settings, or like settings, they're not really lacking the settings
They're just reverting it back to what they did save at the beginning
Now, there is a premium version that you can obviously pay. I am paying for this service
Keep in mind, I am a founder. So I am a founding member of this
I still have the founder subscription. And the bullshit is they included later on higher tiers
which for me that's kind of annoying considering I'm a founder and I'm not planning to pay
three times more for for minuscule upgrades that I'm looking for like the ability for the
G-Force now to actually remember the settings that I have chosen because every time you select any kind
of settings in any game it will revert back to each setting having its own settings
and the bullshit part is is that they're doing it deliberately they do have
a file of save or save file that they create and I know that for a fact
because if I change in certain games certain settings it will remember those
because those somehow are being saved up but it will revert everything else
so it's deliberately changing the settings for graphics specifically but nothing else so for instance if you change like Path of Exile it's one of those
cases that I have one of the games that I've been playing recently again
So if you change the sound quality and path of exile and you close the game and you reopen it up through G4
Now, it will remember the previous volume settings. What it will not remember is the graphics settings that have changed
or maybe the map settings. So if you want transparency of a map or just zoom of it to be changed
that will be reverted back. Sound quality? No, sound quality just saved. So they are saving the settings every time
but they're purposefully handicapping you to force you into buying the stupid subscription
the higher tiered one. and to me as a person that kind of bought into it at the very beginning
that's a massive middle finger to me. I'm getting basically screwed over because a free user, apart from a queue
has the same privileges as me. And that's not very nice. Me as a paying person from the very beginning of the service
getting the same treatment as a free person that basically just freeloads off of the service
and all he does is just needs to do is wait for his turn
Obviously, he has a shorter playtime for me. I believe it's like six or eight hours of playtime, continuous
while for the free user, it's only an hour, plus obviously the queue for all the free users
I have priority, which still is kind of nice, but in grand scheme of things
I feel like the higher tiers are just too expensive for what they offer. And additional problems with the service
when using this as they do lock also resolutions. So if you have different phones like fold, it gets really annoying
because your resolution that you will probably be, you know, the optimal resolution is something, or aspect ratio
is something like 5 by 4. Not necessarily, it's a little bit different
but it's close enough to basically fill the entire screen almost. But 5 by 4 is locked to
a pitiful lower resolution than the 1080p. So if we just count pixel rate
1080p has a higher pixel count than the 5x4 that they're offering
which just gets you scammed even more, and that's the only 5x4 resolution that will basically be accessible to us
to anybody who's using fold. And that's a little bit garbage. Now, I do know that I kind of went from talking about the controller
to talking about streaming or stream or geforce now more precisely but that is basically what i've
been using this with primarily and what i believe is this kind of thing being kind of designed for
users like that that prefer to utilize cloud streaming it is a full-fledged controller and obviously gets
you all the controls that that you'd get from a typical typical controller
you can obviously connect a things like an x-box controller and it will work just fine
there we go so yeah you could connect an x-box controller and it will work just fine or uh use this
and it works just as well the only downside is this is a little bit less comfortable because of
this like jagged edge right here but in terms of convenience to have your phone like stored in
here it's just kind of laying in here it works just flawlessly um obviously with better internet you will have a
lower latency than probably you're seeing right now. And yeah, obviously also for geforce now you could use on-screen controllers
but I will be honest these are kind of garbage and they add massive amounts of
latency so I don't recommend it. And this has been working just falllessly for me
It's really nice, nice design. I'm gonna turn that off right now. There we go. So
For what I've been using this, this works really well. Also, the quality of this, in terms of like how it feels in hand, it's pretty nice
It's solid. The buttons are solid as well. Connection has been solid
I didn't have many problems with, like, just struggling to connect to the device
I don't know how well it works on a longer, like, distances, but obviously it's designed for a phone
So it's a very small chance that you have a higher distance
distance from a device than normally. Obviously maybe you plug in it, plug in your phone to a TV
I'm pretty sure it still should work on like a couple meters away
It is working on a Bluetooth controller or Bluetooth connectivity, so there should be no problem with that And one thing that I will say is a downside at least for the Bluetooth version of it is you basically need to charge both things separately meaning like your phone and your controller
For the controller, it is down here at the bottom. Obviously, it charges no problem
But when it comes down to a phone like this one, when you pop it in here
obviously you have a charging port right over here, and you have no way of plugging in any kind of charging to the device
device when it's in here. One thing that kind of made it really nice for me to have a fold is
if I unfold it, my charging part is right over here, and I can literally slop it in here
like so. And you can see I still have access to my charging port. So that is one of the nicer
thing about a folding device specifically with this. And obviously if you're not charging it
you can shift it to be in the middle. So both edges will kind of be just
to show this off, we'll be sticking out just a little bit. Well, maybe more than just a little bit
but as you can see, it still fits in here pretty nicely. Additionally, obviously, this is holding the phone pretty nicely
It's not falling out. It has rubber grammats on both sides. So just to kind of go into the build quality right here
So this is rubber, and these are also rubber. So this entire side is rubber
As you can see, it has kind of like this grip right here to hold your phone in place
so it won't even slip out on both sides. And it's been holding my devices pretty well
Even this one where the camera bump makes it be a little bit more elevated than I would like it to
Probably a better solution would be if they would shift the split to be more right here
This would allow it so that the camera bump falls in this space right here
won't really be you know being pushed up up by the camera bump at all and yeah like
I said the only problem that I've had at this for me as with the when it's stretched
out or your finger just kind of like rest right here and it's not the most
comfortable but that's the only problem so there we go just to kind of give my
opinion about this after using it for a decent amount of time. I really like this, this little toy right here, it's been working solidly for me
It made like a trip that I had out of the country with my device to be super pleasant
at least for like gaming-wise. With the controller, I didn't need to bring my bulky Xbox
controller or anything like that, and obviously it's holding your phone as well. The battery
has been solid, so yeah, in general it's a really nice device
Now I did learn that there is a pro version a little bit later after I put this one sadly. And there is also an X3 version, a newer version of this, which I have not
had my hands on yet. That one comes with a fan though because I'm primarily doing a cloud
gaming. I don't really care for the fan. It adds extra bulk to the controller itself and obviously
adds cooling to the device which this becomes kind of like a thermal pod where it just kind
of you know you put your phone, your phone kind of sticks to it and becomes a thermal. pad which draws the heat away from the phone and gets cooled by the fan which is located at the back somewhere here
but cloud gaming doesn't really have a problem with the phone overheating so that's really useless for me
and the build quality seems to be at least seems to be i might be completely incorrect very similar to
this and this is just a little bit smaller which is what i prefer um or at least i think i prefer this
One thing that I'll mention is when you're holding this, if you have a small hands, you might be just comfortable with this for my little bit bigger adult hands
It's a little bit wonky. There's not enough bulk in here, as you would normally have with like an Xbox controller or PlayStation controller
So you just kind of like have it rested and you just, well, do this
There is also a little bit of a... kind of like a weird placement of the buttons
They resemble, obviously, a lot even, like, in the color scheme, a switch controller
I don't know if that's a good thing or not. I haven't really used a switch, so I can't really say how comparable these are
But one thing that I had a problem with is when you're holding it, number one, Xbox controller
I kind of have both of my fingers on both of the triggers or buttons and triggers
here it's very uncomfortable to do this like this. Your hands kind of become like just twisted in weird ways that isn't very comfortable
So I just use my index, no, pointing fingers, and do this
And also like when holding it like this, you can see the stick is basically just somewhere like right here, my thumb, instead of being under my thumb
And because these are shifted like an Xbox controller, you hold the content
controller like your hand here, the right hand is significantly lower than the right
than the left one, just so you can comfortably use both of the triggers and it just kind
of creates this lopsided feel. That's a little bit of a downside right here
But if you're willing to kind of overcome this, which it's totally doable and hasn't been
much of a problem, just a little bit to get used to
Like I said, it works just flawlessly. I'd recommend this if you're planning to pick it up
I bought it relatively cheaply off of some of it. one. So it's been technically secondhand though it hasn't been used at all. It's basically in
perfect condition. I did scoff it up more using myself than it was from the box. And I believe I paid
for it $30, something like that. So for 30 bucks this is a freaking fantastic controller
for super cheap for your device. Highly recommend it. Now anyway, if you found this very helpful
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