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O Snap sponsored this video for me to check out their MCON magnetic

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controller. And while the concept is one that I'm pretty familiar with, you know,

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little clip-on controllers for your phone, the execution is pretty different

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from what I've seen before. For one thing, it doesn't clip on. One of their

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main claims to fame is that it attaches magnetically using either MagSafe or an

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adapter bracket that makes it work with pretty much any Android phone. It's also

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packed with features that I have simply never seen in a phone controller before.

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Oh my god, this clear one is so cool. It was a limited edition. I'm so sorry, you

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guys. The black and white ones are for you. Hold on. I'm going to Oh, that's

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pretty cool.

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Very cool. Anyh who, features like TMR

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joysticks. That was apparently a collaboration with Gamester as well as

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Hall effect triggers. That's right, my friends. Analog triggers in a controller

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this thick. What else is there to talk about in here? We've got pretty

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reasonable feeling. Little bit stiff, but reasonable feeling D-pad. Good face

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buttons. Android controls here. You know what? I am actually going to switch to

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the one that you guys can buy because it's really hard to see the buttons there. One sec. There we go. Ah, yeah.

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There we go. I'll get you guys a better look at those buttons [music] there. What is THE EJECT BUTTON? WHOA. OKAY,

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THAT ACTUALLY makes a ton of sense because another one of their big

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emphasis points was that you don't just have to use it attached to your phone.

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You can prop out your kickstand, which goes a little something like this, and

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then use it as a standalone Bluetooth controller. It also has, and I don't

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know how to do this, so we're going to be learning on the fly. Ah, there we go.

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Deployable wings. to make you fly. Just

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kidding. It's not an energy drink. It's to kind of help with the ergonomics a

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bit. Yeah, I wouldn't say that it's the single most impactful thing for me, but

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then again, I grew up with a Super Nintendo, so this feels pretty natural.

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USBC for charging right there. Nice simple pairing button. As much as I love

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looking up the button combo every single time I use a bloody controller, I don't.

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So, if you could just put a pairing button on everything, that would be

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great. Thank you so much. Oh, Lind Tal is on his way out. I'm gonna come say

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bye. Seriously, this was the craziest day. We had Linusing Torbolts here in

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the office. Let's check out the rest of the accessories that are included. You

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get an Android ring, which will allow you to connect your Android phone to a

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MagSafe compatible thingaboo. In this case, uh [clears throat] your MCON. You

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also got a safety guide, uh USBC cable,

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and that is a it as uh us Canadians say.

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Okay, let's go ahead and see if I can figure out how to do this without

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instructions. Someone tell me if I'm doing this wrong. Oh, I don't even need

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it. Right. This is a Pixel 10 Pro. We're going to mount my 9A. Doesn't the 9A

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have pixel snap, too? Does, doesn't it? Listen. Now, that's perfectly good for

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the next person to use. The point is, boom. That goes on there like that. And

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you are flipping ready to go. All right, let's insert this and see if I can

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figure out how that Oh, wow. That goes on there really nice. Part of their

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talking points is that it's pocketable. I sincerely hope that they meant [music]

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when detached from the phone. Cuz while I could fit this in my cargo pants,

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ltttore.com, I can't promise that it would fit in lady pants. But because

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it's magnetic, it's pretty quick to detach and you could, you know, maybe

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stow it kind of like this. You know, a little something like that if you had

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cargo pants from ltstore.com. Did I mention they're from? Of course, everything we've talked about so far is

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completely academic. So, why don't we actually take it for a spin, shall we?

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Now, we just got to turn this on. And oh, look at that. Oh, snap. Mcon. If

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you have a heavy ass phone like the Pixel 10 Pro, that could be a little bit

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of a challenge for you. It wouldn't even be an issue if the phone wasn't so

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bloody heavy compared to the controller itself. 210 g. Okay. And if you actually

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take like the controller part of it, the bottom, it's only 130 g. So, you don't

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get up to a similar weight until you have the whole thing together. But that

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other 70 g compounds with the phone.

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There's nothing they can do about this. It just is a reality of having a super

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heavy phone. I I'm sure they were thinking something with this. I mean,

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Apple's pro phones are really heavy, too. Oh, did I mention it works

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perfectly fine on iOS as well? We're only showing Android, but very much iOS

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compatible. No, not Yoshi. This is the

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part where instead of working, I play video games for the rest of the thing. Whoops. Whoops. Oops. Let's fold out the

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wings cuz

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with the whole computing device being the screen there, it's pretty flipping

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heavy. I think the wings help a little bit with that. Not a ton. Not a ton. But

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if you don't have the heaviest freaking phone, then it's far less of a concern

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for you. They do take a little bit of the weight off. Got to give credit where

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it's due. If I was going to design this, I would [music] probably move this home

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button here, but nobody asked me that. Die? What do you think I'm going to die?

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I think I'm going to die. Boom. I can dance all day. I can dance all day. Oh,

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yes. Yes. Yes. Very usable. Like very

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usable. Bluetooth. Not always the best for a low latency connection. Speaking

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of Bluetooth, it supports being paired to up to three devices at a time. So,

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that's pretty handy if you switch between devices pretty frequently. I

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have to get all the oneups. Sorry, I can't talk right now.

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Aw. 16 lives, baby. Oh, it's got gyroscopic

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aiming, which makes very little sense if you consider that it's meant to be

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attached to a phone, which obviously has its own gyroscope. But as I mentioned

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before, where my eject button go? All right.

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What do they call this? Kickback mode. Did I just get hit?

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Damn it. Oh no. Get over here, Iggy. Oh,

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shoot. Okay, hold on. Oh god. OH GOD. OH GOD.

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THIS IS ANOTHER cool little feature. When it's stowed, almost all of the

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buttons are protected with only the shoulders and triggers exposed. Oh,

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whoops. I started again. Wow, this is a trip. Playing this upside down. Whoa.

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Oh, dude. This is way harder THAN IT LOOKS. OH NO. YEAH. SEE, like that.

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Of course, you don't have to just play Grandpa games. You can play pretty much

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any game that uses a standard controller layout. Whether that's running locally

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or whether it's running through the cloud, whether that's from NVIDIA or

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Microsoft or any cloud provider or even gaming on your own PC remotely using a

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service like, for example, Parseek. This is pretty cool. This really speaks to

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me. Uh they have a what they call a right to repair friendly design. So

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instead of using a whole bunch of different screw heads and stuff like that, they just use standardized ones

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that are pretty easy to take apart. And the battery that who knows someday you

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might want to open up and replace. They claim is good for 9 hours of straight

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gaming and standby for over a year and a half. Is that right? [music]

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Okay. Sure. Yeah. Why not? Is it the

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world's greatest most ergonomic controller? No. Right. Like I'm not

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going to sell it as such. But as something that can be folded and packed

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away, very cool.

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I also love the spring-loaded mechanism to whip it out.

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What do they call that? Switchblade. Yeah. Don't don't don't don't call it

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that on your, you know, travel luggage declaration or whatever. Just call it

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game controller. If any of this looks good to you, we'll have the MCON linked

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in the video description along with some matching accessories from O Snap. It

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starts at $149.99 US. Don't forget to

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