Honor Snap-on Gamepad Launched at Gamescom 2022

Gamescom 2019 is essentially commanded past game studios and developers showing off new titles they take been working on. Just, telephone makers want to be everywhere and it seems like Honor wanted to sus scrofa some of the limelight. Therefore, information technology has now launched a snap-on gamepad for its range of smartphones.

The Honor Gamepad, as you can see in the prototype above, boasts a black and yellow color scheme that's more reminiscent of Realme's brand instead of Honor. It sports a concrete joystick, 4 D-Pad buttons, a shoulder button for shooting or aiming, and an extra button.

And well, there'due south only a single Gamepad and it connects to 1 side of your device. The Gamepad is compatible with some of the nigh popular games, just you'll have the choice for mapping keys differently if you desire.

Much like the ROG Kunai and Black Shark ii gamepads, the Honor Gamepad connects to the smartphone via Bluetooth for gaming. Simply it too attaches to the USB Type-C port to juice up the smartphone. Yes, the Honor Gamepad comes equipped with a 400mAh bombardment that should keep your battery levels stable during gaming sessions.

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Honor doesn't have a defended gaming smartphone in its portfolio, except for the Honor Play that was launched last year. All the same, we don't really need the dedicated tag every bit the craze for mobile gaming is e'er-growing. Everyone wants to enjoy PUBG Mobile on their smartphone, be it a flagship or a sub-Rs 20,000 budget device. Honor understands that and wants to elevate the experience with its new gamepad accompaniment.

Honor is yet to reveal whether its Gamepad accessory is uniform but with their own devices or other smartphones will exist able to use it as well. The adjustable size of Accolade Gamepad suggests that the latter to be truthful, but we take to await for an official give-and-take. It too hasn't revealed the pricing and availability details, then stay tuned for more than updates.