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| [title] Backbone One Teardown | |
| - | [* black] This Joy Con-esque |
| - | [* red] D-pad |
| - | [* orange] Lightning port for passthrough charging and connecting accessories |
| - | [* yellow] 3.5 mm headphone jack |
| + | [* black] This Joy Con-esque controller may look like any other mobile gamepad—but on paper at least, it packs a few surprises. Let's unfurl a few of them here: |
| + | [* red] D-pad and thumbstick on the left. A-B-X-Y buttons and thumbstick on the right. Shoulder and trigger buttons on each side. |
| + | [* orange] Lightning port for passthrough charging and connecting accessories. |
| + | [* yellow] 3.5 mm headphone jack—a welcome sight here, after being [guide|67384|dropped from the iPhone|stepid=136473] in 2016 and never seen again (well, ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbE3_uAMA&ab_channel=StrangeParts|almost never|new_window=true]''). Welcome back, little buddy! |
| [* green] Specialty buttons for instant muting, launching the Backbone app, and recording gameplay. | |
| - | [* icon_note] A couple interesting things missing: Bluetooth and an internal battery. The Backbone One connects to—and draws power from—your iPhone directly. It's simplicity at its finest, and we'll see how this affects its repairability. |
| + | [* icon_note] A couple interesting things ''missing'': Bluetooth and an internal battery. The Backbone One connects to—and draws power from—your iPhone directly. |
| + | [* black] We can't decide if having no battery and no Bluetooth is a feature—but it seemingly reduces the number of things to go wrong. |