Steelseries FREE Bluetooth Portable Gamepad Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the steel series free which contrary to
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what you might believe having heard the name of the product costs money not very
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much money mind you it's not super expensive but it is super Freedom
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enhancing which is I think what they were going for with the name but what it
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sounds like is that it doesn't cost anything so there it is tiny little game
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controller which has huge huge
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functionality especially once we get into a little bit more about it and you
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guys understand what's going on here so first things first we've got a quick
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start guide which is thick they should call it a thick start
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guide yeah all right how to configure
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your free on different devices carrying pouch USB cable quick start guide
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Android iOS including iPhones iPads
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iPods uh PC Mac general information
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pairing mode buttons end of English so
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what you guys may have figured out based on that is that there's a steel series
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sticker inside as well as a little Guide to the free product family and the flux
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product family which I also have here which is some pretty sweet baller
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looking headphones um what you may have figured out is that this is pretty much
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universally compatible with any number of different plat forms and it is for
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playing games now the first thing that came to mind for me is holy crap I have
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a Bluetooth controller that is portable and wireless and convenient and I can
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use it to play like SNES games on an emulator on my Android tablet holy
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freaking crap of course that's not what we're supposed to use it for because
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nobody has any SNES games on their tablet on an emulator because that is
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not what you do no
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you're playing other games however if
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you have other games it'll work with that too so you got a pretty bog
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standard configuration it's perfect for SNES games although you won't be playing
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those with a left and right shoulder button a d-pad start and I mean A and B
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as well as uh oh no yeah sorry sorry ABX
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uh sorry 1 two 3 4 those are the other buttons however you got a couple of
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analog sticks which actually they're a little stiff but
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they'll probably loosen up in time they feel pretty good not bad considering
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again the cost of the controller and the size um so you got a couple analog
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sticks in case you want to use those for you know other games that you're not
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playing on an SNES I mean you're not playing any games on this joke's old um
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so charging you get about 10 hours of intense gaming with the device uh when
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it's got a full charge and around 20 plus hours of casual gaming where you're
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sort of using it uh sometimes and then not using it other times and I don't
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know what he's pointing at I don't know what he's pointing at por slick C cable
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length oh cable length oh he wants to no the cable doesn't matter the cable's
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just for charging charge it and play it on your computer sometime well yeah you
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could but that Bluetooth anyway so it's
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cordless but slick wants okay fine it's
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this long it is one Linus ARM length and one Linus chest width
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long and other than that I guess let's just look sort of closely at it and how
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awesome it is is and how small it is oh you know what this might be kind of funny so this is it next to my hands so
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you can see that I will have no difficulty using this now I'm going to go ahead and take the camera from slick
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and I'd like him to hold it in his hands so if you are a large person like slick
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who's basically a giant it might not be perfect for you I hope they come out
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with like a free XL or like uh you know free something and it's a little bit
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bigger but for now this is perfect for girls children and men with girly hands
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