By fitting around your smartphone, it provides physical controls to use instead of fiddly touchscreen alternatives.

The Backbone isn’t the only smartphone-cradle-controller of its kind, either.

There are other great options, like theRazer Kishi V2, which is also on sale for Prime Day.

A leaked screenshot of the aleged Oblivion remaster.

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Backbone One with no phone.

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Delta for iPhone, a Nintend 64 controller, Nintendo DSi, and several cartridges.

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Backbone One PlayStation Edition for Android showing Backbone app

This Backbone One is modeled after the DualSense’s button layout and even its colors, making it a great fit for PS Remote Play (and really any game if you like the PS-style layout).

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