Otterbox Mobile Gaming Clip Review: Half Right

Otterbox, a company known for its rugged cases, has developed a $ 30 clip that can connect your phone to an Xbox controller with game play. Called the Mobile Gaming Clip, it is part of a growing trend of accessories for playing cloud-based console games on your phone. What makes the Outerbox clip different is it can also serve as a phone stand, which is different from the controller – although the phone stand feature is not as robust as I was expecting.

OtterBox’s clip is designed specifically for Xbox controllers, and works with controllers built for an Xbox One, Series X / S or Elite Series 2 controller. There is also a slight cutout for the charging port, meaning that if you need to connect your Xbox controller to a USB cable, you won’t need to remove the clip from the controller. You can also detach the hand from the clip and use it as a stand to play your smartphone for tablet, gaming, movie watching, or video call.

In order to turn on XCloud with Microsoft, it is partnering with various manufacturers to create a variety of mobile gaming accessory companies, including Otterbox, Razor Keishi, and 8BitDo’s SN30 Pro for Android, which is different Provide experience. Microsoft is aiming to ensure that when its cloud gaming service becomes more widely available, gaming is a larger ecosystem of peripherals.

The setup for the Otterbox mobile gaming clip is straightforward: connect your Xbox controller to your phone, attach the clip to your controller, mount the phone and start playing. It requires more force than other gaming clips to attach to the controller. Once you set it up properly, the clip sticks tightly to the controller, so you shouldn’t worry about it loosening and falling.

Some mobile gaming clips, such as Power’s MOGA mobile gaming clips, feel unbalanced, especially with a larger or heavier phone or a bulky case phone. Otterbox’s mobile gaming clip has a better weight distribution, giving the controller a slightly more balanced feel.

One reason for this is Otterbox’s “Rapid Adjust feature” in mobile gaming clips, which means that you can adjust the angle of your phone while using the clip. The hand of the clip can be slightly extended, allowing you to experiment with the angles you want. There is also a latch located on the arm of the mobile gaming clip which allows you to lock it in place so that it does not move around during use.

There are three claws to hold your phone. The lower claws extend, allowing larger phones up to a few centimeters to fit into the accessory. This makes it easy to fit larger phones into gaming clips. The claws do not block me from accessing the volume or power button on my iPhone XR, although unlocking my phone when using the mount is a bit cumbersome because it is sideways in the mount. The design makes it easy to use a pair of wired earbuds or connect a charger to charge your phone while continuing gaming.

When I tried to mount my phone I had some issues; The phone case I use has a pop-socket attached primarily to the center, and has added a lot of thickness and made my phone less secure in the clip, even when I Even if I extend the clip a bit, I still keep popping. I ended up removing the case from my phone to use the clip every time. If you do not have an accessory like a popsocket on your phone, the clip should work with almost any standard case.

The most interesting feature for Otterbox’s mobile gaming clips is the tabletop mode. You can switch from controller to tablet mode, hand to the clip portion of the accessory, allowing you to use gaming clips as a view stand for gaming or even watch movies and TV shows. The tabletop feature is an ambitious idea, but it ends up being more of a kickstand than an actual stand. You have limited ability to adjust the angle of the phone in this mode, and you cannot elevate the phone from the table in any way.

Nevertheless, the option for a tablet mode addresses one of the biggest problems with mobile gaming clips: hand fatigue from the weight of a controller, phone, and clip. OtterBox helps solve this problem by giving you the ability to take a break from the gaming clip but still give you the freedom to continue gaming on your phone.

Over the past few years, the cloud and mobile gaming market has become a more exciting location in the industry, with successful free-to-play titles Call of duty mobile And Microsoft is really starting its push into cloud gaming. As cloud gaming continues to grow, there is likely to be a major expansion in the availability and variety of such gaming clips. This means that if you do not like the current options available on the market, there is a high probability that similar products will be released in the coming months and years.

Otterbox’s Mobile Gaming Clip is not the perfect mobile gaming accessory, but it is one of the better mobile gaming accessories available now. This gives me the option to use a controller that I own and is not designed for any one specific product (aside from the fact that it must be an Xbox). It is a bit more flexible than other mobile gaming accessories like the Razer Kishi, which it uses to attach your phone to a pair of controllers.

At $ 30, Otterbox’s clips are less expensive than those solutions, but still are Cheap the option If you want to clip your phone to an existing controller. I like that the clip doesn’t feel unbalanced when attached to the controller, and the tabletop mode is interesting. But it makes one realize how limited the clip is after being used on a table. Still, things make Oterbox’s mobile gaming clips perfect enough to justify the $ 5 to $ 10 price premium compared to other options available on the market.

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