Smartphone gaming: Here are five accessories that will make your phone-gaming experience better and more comfortable.
Smartphone gaming is very popular in India, from the casual Ludo King and Candy Crush Saga to the more competitive battle royale games like Apex Legends and Call of Duty Mobile and the graphically intensive titles like Asphalt 9 and Genshin Impact.
While many of us today have smartphones with the power to facilitate these games, the experience can always be made better using some extra accessories and tools. Today, we will look at five such smartphone accessories that should help you improve your gaming experience and make it more comfortable.
Shoulder triggers
I was personally sceptical about shoulder triggers for long after they came out, but once I actually got myself to try one of these, life has been easier in titles like Call of Duty Mobile and the now-banned BGMI. Unless you have a phone that itself comes with some implementation of shoulder triggers built in like the Poco F3 GT or the Asus ROG Phone 6, these can help you get an extra pair of quick access buttons.
These buttons can then be mapped for pretty much any control in the game, provided the button layout for that particular control can be moved around the screen, to bring them near the receptor areas of the shoulder buttons. Shoulder triggers are available as one unit with two triggers or also as two separate triggers, so you have multiple options to try out.
L-shaped USB charging cable
Perhaps one of the most overlooked aspects of gaming on mobile devices is charging. Yes, nobody likes to play when you have a cable attached to your phone, with the wire probably getting in your way. However, every gamer has, at some point, been in a position where they must charge their phone to pull through an intense match, probably an online multiplayer one that cannot be paused.
That’s when you need charging, and while you may not be able to get rid of the cable altogether just yet, you can ease the pain and any discomfort caused by the charging end of your cable sticking out of your phone’s bottom by investing in an L-shaped cable. L-shaped cables have a 90-degree turn right where the cable tethers to the phone, allowing users to play without largely changing their hands’ positions.
Finger sleeves
If you play competitive games that involve a lot of finger-movement on the screen, you may have had bad days where the build-up of dirt on your fingers and your screen may result in a jerk, not-so-smooth motion when aiming or moving around in a game.