The Backbone One is a great mobile controller at a reasonable price. Due to its smaller size it’s less comfortable than the Backbone Pro, though, but this comes with the benefit of portability. If you ...

Whether it’s Xbox Cloud gaming, Stadia, PlayStation Remote Play or just a very severe addiction to Apple Arcade, gamepads are a better way to play many games on your smartphone of choice. Normally ...

Since arriving in 2020, the Backbone One has helped popularize dedicated mobile game controllers, the kind you might use for streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and NVIDIA GeForce Now, remote ...

If you’ve explored the world of mobile gaming on a phone or tablet within the last few years, you’ve likely heard of the Backbone controller. Backbone wasn’t the first company to make a controller ...

When I first saw the Backbone One, I figured it would be just another gimmicky mobile phone controller alternative. In a world of clunky phone clips, latency issues, and bad designs, no solution has ...

We’re in the early days of what could be a cloud gaming renaissance, as the technology and bandwidth is finally catching up to the ambition and promise of a “play anything anywhere” kind of future.

Best Buy's 4th of July sale continues with a flash deal on the popular Backbone One mobile gaming controller for iPhone, with the Lightning version 40% off today only. Pick up the popular iPhone ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

I get to play with a lot of new hardware from startups and it runs the gamut from super polished to barely working, neither of which is a value judgement! But every once in a while I get to mess with ...

Weighing up the Backbone One vs Backbone Pro matchup is a pretty straightforward decision, as while both products are among the best mobile controllers right now, they still have clear advantages and ...

Backbone, in collaboration with Xbox, has released the Backbone One: Xbox Edition, a mobile controller designed to turn smartphones into portable Xbox consoles. Launched on March 27, 2025, the device ...