The one thing that many of us miss when gaming on our smartphones and tablets is a physical joystick. Most games rely on gesture based controls and those work perfectly fine but once in awhile, we miss our arcade games and FPS shooters. The onscreen joystick just doesn’t cut it.
One way to add a physical joystick is to use an add-on joystick. There is a whole range of joysticks designed for smartphones and tablets and many work very well but they are a pain to bring along with you. Ten One Design understood this dilemma well enough and decided to come out with the Fling Mini Controller.
Fling Mini is a joystick for iPhone, iPod touch, or Android device. It requires no installation of any special app and it requires no battery and neither will it drain your device’s battery. In fact, Fling Mini has no electronics part at all. It uses a gather ingenious design to add a couple of joysticks that sits on top of your touchscreen and secured in place with a couple of suction cups.
The controller is transparent so it doesn’t block your view of the onscreen action. The Fling Mini is the smaller version of the original Fling and is designed to work with smaller screens such as a smartphone. However, it will also work with tablets. It comes in a set with 2 controllers but you can just one depending on the game.
The spring design even makes the joystick buttons self centering, a crucial feature that makes manipulating an on-screen joystick much closer in feel to an actual joypad.
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