O Snap sponsored this video for me to check out their MCON magnetic
controller. And while the concept is one that I'm pretty familiar with, you know,
little clip-on controllers for your phone, the execution is pretty different
from what I've seen before. For one thing, it doesn't clip on. One of their
main claims to fame is that it attaches magnetically using either MagSafe or an
adapter bracket that makes it work with pretty much any Android phone. It's also
packed with features that I have simply never seen in a phone controller before.
Oh my god, this clear one is so cool. It was a limited edition. I'm so sorry, you
guys. The black and white ones are for you. Hold on. I'm going to Oh, that's
pretty cool.
Very cool. Anyh who, features like TMR
joysticks. That was apparently a collaboration with Gamester as well as
Hall effect triggers. That's right, my friends. Analog triggers in a controller
this thick. What else is there to talk about in here? We've got pretty
reasonable feeling. Little bit stiff, but reasonable feeling D-pad. Good face
buttons. Android controls here. You know what? I am actually going to switch to
the one that you guys can buy because it's really hard to see the buttons there. One sec. There we go. Ah, yeah.
There we go. I'll get you guys a better look at those buttons [music] there. What is THE EJECT BUTTON? WHOA. OKAY,
THAT ACTUALLY makes a ton of sense because another one of their big
emphasis points was that you don't just have to use it attached to your phone.
You can prop out your kickstand, which goes a little something like this, and
then use it as a standalone Bluetooth controller. It also has, and I don't
know how to do this, so we're going to be learning on the fly. Ah, there we go.
Deployable wings. to make you fly. Just
kidding. It's not an energy drink. It's to kind of help with the ergonomics a
bit. Yeah, I wouldn't say that it's the single most impactful thing for me, but
then again, I grew up with a Super Nintendo, so this feels pretty natural.
USBC for charging right there. Nice simple pairing button. As much as I love
looking up the button combo every single time I use a bloody controller, I don't.
So, if you could just put a pairing button on everything, that would be
great. Thank you so much. Oh, Lind Tal is on his way out. I'm gonna come say
bye. Seriously, this was the craziest day. We had Linusing Torbolts here in
the office. Let's check out the rest of the accessories that are included. You
get an Android ring, which will allow you to connect your Android phone to a
MagSafe compatible thingaboo. In this case, uh [clears throat] your MCON. You
also got a safety guide, uh USBC cable,
and that is a it as uh us Canadians say.
Okay, let's go ahead and see if I can figure out how to do this without
instructions. Someone tell me if I'm doing this wrong. Oh, I don't even need
it. Right. This is a Pixel 10 Pro. We're going to mount my 9A. Doesn't the 9A
have pixel snap, too? Does, doesn't it? Listen. Now, that's perfectly good for
the next person to use. The point is, boom. That goes on there like that. And
you are flipping ready to go. All right, let's insert this and see if I can
figure out how that Oh, wow. That goes on there really nice. Part of their
talking points is that it's pocketable. I sincerely hope that they meant [music]
when detached from the phone. Cuz while I could fit this in my cargo pants,
ltttore.com, I can't promise that it would fit in lady pants. But because
it's magnetic, it's pretty quick to detach and you could, you know, maybe
stow it kind of like this. You know, a little something like that if you had
cargo pants from ltstore.com. Did I mention they're from? Of course, everything we've talked about so far is
completely academic. So, why don't we actually take it for a spin, shall we?
Now, we just got to turn this on. And oh, look at that. Oh, snap. Mcon. If
you have a heavy ass phone like the Pixel 10 Pro, that could be a little bit
of a challenge for you. It wouldn't even be an issue if the phone wasn't so
bloody heavy compared to the controller itself. 210 g. Okay. And if you actually
take like the controller part of it, the bottom, it's only 130 g. So, you don't
get up to a similar weight until you have the whole thing together. But that
other 70 g compounds with the phone.
There's nothing they can do about this. It just is a reality of having a super
heavy phone. I I'm sure they were thinking something with this. I mean,
Apple's pro phones are really heavy, too. Oh, did I mention it works
perfectly fine on iOS as well? We're only showing Android, but very much iOS
compatible. No, not Yoshi. This is the
part where instead of working, I play video games for the rest of the thing. Whoops. Whoops. Oops. Let's fold out the
wings cuz
with the whole computing device being the screen there, it's pretty flipping
heavy. I think the wings help a little bit with that. Not a ton. Not a ton. But
if you don't have the heaviest freaking phone, then it's far less of a concern
for you. They do take a little bit of the weight off. Got to give credit where
it's due. If I was going to design this, I would [music] probably move this home
button here, but nobody asked me that. Die? What do you think I'm going to die?
I think I'm going to die. Boom. I can dance all day. I can dance all day. Oh,
yes. Yes. Yes. Very usable. Like very
usable. Bluetooth. Not always the best for a low latency connection. Speaking
of Bluetooth, it supports being paired to up to three devices at a time. So,
that's pretty handy if you switch between devices pretty frequently. I
have to get all the oneups. Sorry, I can't talk right now.
Aw. 16 lives, baby. Oh, it's got gyroscopic
aiming, which makes very little sense if you consider that it's meant to be
attached to a phone, which obviously has its own gyroscope. But as I mentioned
before, where my eject button go? All right.
What do they call this? Kickback mode. Did I just get hit?
Damn it. Oh no. Get over here, Iggy. Oh,
shoot. Okay, hold on. Oh god. OH GOD. OH GOD.
THIS IS ANOTHER cool little feature. When it's stowed, almost all of the
buttons are protected with only the shoulders and triggers exposed. Oh,
whoops. I started again. Wow, this is a trip. Playing this upside down. Whoa.
Oh, dude. This is way harder THAN IT LOOKS. OH NO. YEAH. SEE, like that.
Of course, you don't have to just play Grandpa games. You can play pretty much
any game that uses a standard controller layout. Whether that's running locally
or whether it's running through the cloud, whether that's from NVIDIA or
Microsoft or any cloud provider or even gaming on your own PC remotely using a
service like, for example, Parseek. This is pretty cool. This really speaks to
me. Uh they have a what they call a right to repair friendly design. So
instead of using a whole bunch of different screw heads and stuff like that, they just use standardized ones
that are pretty easy to take apart. And the battery that who knows someday you
might want to open up and replace. They claim is good for 9 hours of straight
gaming and standby for over a year and a half. Is that right? [music]
Okay. Sure. Yeah. Why not? Is it the
world's greatest most ergonomic controller? No. Right. Like I'm not
going to sell it as such. But as something that can be folded and packed
away, very cool.
I also love the spring-loaded mechanism to whip it out.
What do they call that? Switchblade. Yeah. Don't don't don't don't call it
that on your, you know, travel luggage declaration or whatever. Just call it
game controller. If any of this looks good to you, we'll have the MCON linked
in the video description along with some matching accessories from O Snap. It
starts at $149.99 US. Don't forget to
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