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hi I'm Scott Steinem maybe for the holidays you've wanted to turn your little iPhone or iPod into a handheld game system or you fancied some sort of stocking stuffer the Logitech PowerShell controller plus battery for the iPhone is a perfect little turn your iPhone into a game system doohickey it is however a hundred dollars and it's one of two iOS seven game controllers that are out there this plus the Moga ace power that i've already reviewed now what's up here well iOS 7 actually allows for full game control with accessories that are officially part of this m5 program now that means that games could have Universal controller support and there could be games all over the place that allow you to play the sort of stuff that used to on Nintendo and Sony however Kirby enthusiasm a tiny bit because a lot of games don't have full controller support yet now the PowerShell looks like kind of an old-school NES controller or a playstation controller before they went to analog sticks there's a d-pad here there are four buttons there's also a left and right shoulder button on top and those are all analog yeah weirdly but true they are analog buttons which means that the more you press down on one of these left or right areas on the d-pad the faster you could go in some games what we'll use that for who knows now the Moga ace power actually has all these buttons plus two analog pads and to trigger buttons behind the shoulder buttons so it's like a playstation or xbox controller that's pretty cool and that's called an extended button layout versus the standard one that's here that's a nice feature set but to me the feel and the button finish and the way all these buttons press is a lot better on this logitech now this has also the ability to charge your device up just like the Moga ace power so it's kind of like a Mophie Juice Pack you plug this in via microUSB comes with a cable and you can charge this device and then put your iPhone in here and it will recharge your iPhone so far it seems like it's a little hard to tell when this battery is topped off and how long it will take to charge up your iPhone and that also means you're going to deplete the battery on this so it's more just like extra battery life when you're out playing games and it's long it's really long I mean you can keep your phone in here there's hammer access on the back you'll be talking on a big old banana phone with this luckily it pops up pretty easily you just slide out like that and there you go you have this long accessory to stick in your bag how big is it compared to other game systems of the past well it's a lot smaller than a sega game gear from eons ago but it is a lot bigger than a Nintendo 3ds and it's even kind of a little longer than a PlayStation Vita so it's not really creating anything super compact but if you want to play games and use buttons this is kind of the way you're going to go and in particular grand theft auto san andreas which just launched is probably the best use of these buttons you can use it to play the whole game and even these specific button prompts are built into the software so you know what to press and it feels great a lot better than pressing those on-screen buttons for a game that complicated and long also games like Sonic 2 limbo Bastion pac-man even just remember that you have to have a lightning port in order to use this this does not have bluetooth so you connect it with lightning which means it supports the iPhone 5 the fifth generation iPod Touch and the iPhone 5s weirdly this does not support the iPhone 5c there is a built-in insert here that you pop in to use the iPod Touch the Moga ace does support the iPhone 5c but anybody with a 30 pin you are out of luck this also in order to get headphone out has to use a built-in doohickey that plugs into the side that runs into the device and juts out so it's a little bit annoying I'm Scott Stein and that's a look at the Logitech PowerShell controller plus battery one of the first and what will probably be a long wave of game controller accessories for iOS