iControlPad Review

The iControlPad ( www.iControlPad.com ) is a brilliant gadget from the guys who brought us OpenPandora. It's, effectively, a bluetooth game controller which clamps your mobile device securely in place, creating one single gaming handheld with your smartphone as the brains. It brings 8 buttons, a D-Pad and dual analogue to the table, more than enough for most emulators. It's even making inroads into non-jailbroken iPhone software compatibility, with a few apps already available.

Read my full iControlPad review here: http://www.gadgetoid.com/2011/07/09/icontrolpad-review/

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• iphone
• ipad
• android
• ios
• phone
• icontrolpad
• controller
• bluetooth
• ipod
• video game
• nokia

[LegolasHIMM]

this is only for iphone?

[GadgetoidUK]

@LegolasHIMM it'll work with more or less anything ( Android devices, Windows, Linux, OSX ). But is, by far, best used with a jailbroken iPhone.

[TheDingeldangel]

can i use it to play call of duty world at war nazi zombies or black ops zombies?

[GadgetoidUK]

@TheDingeldangel if your iPhone is jailbroken, then the answer to this question may soon be yes. The BluTrol App will have analogue support soon and will allow you to map the iControlPad analogue sticks to the screen. Whether or not it'll work well with these games, however, remains to be seen.

[god0t]

Are you kidding me? You are playing the best game ever on the ipad 2 with a slim little thing like that? That is unbelievably awesome. Can you tell me where to get the emulator (or better: the name) and the location from where you got the ROM for the Zelda game? I am really interested n that iControlPad thing. Damn!

[GadgetoidUK]

@god0t the emulators are all from Cydia, an App installed to jailbroken iOS devices. This one would be SNES9x EX, ported by Robert Broglia. You can dump your own ROMs using a Retrode, it's not a hard game to find at carboot sales.

[GadgetoidUK]

@TheTroyes1 I should hope so... having points all over a controller would just hurt your hands!

[GadgetoidUK]

@Marioabdallam sure, if you sprout an extra hand to hold your phone whilst both hands are on the Wiimote and enjoy awkwardly placed controls go right ahead!

[segadomcast]

@TDRrevenge You are a sheep. I don't live in America anyway.

[TDRrevenge]

@segadomcast you will when you get caught so dont think you wont.

[segadomcast]

@TDRrevenge no one cares

[PinoyPower15]

Will it work for an iPod touch 3rd gen and can I use it on gpsphone?

[zerosn0w]

Does Modern Combat or other gameloft games work with this?

[ajidyze]

@GadgetoidUK will it work with a jailbroken ipod touch 2g?

[AidGum]

does this work with ipod touch 4g?

[ZetaSimsoy]

@Richwaterz some of them, I think 30 games are supported. I will hopefully get to use this on an android device for emulators. I gotta catch them all!

[ZetaSimsoy]

This looks awesome, I need one. If they make it so you can turn it into a clamshell with the holders in letting them tilt the screen up, and add the shoulder buttons to the proper place I will buy ten.

[Richwaterz]

Looks awesome but does this work with download games from iTunes like Jetpack joyride, age of zombies or plants vs zombies?