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(so they can reply to this one instead of replying to a completely irrelevant first comment)]]>Apr 14th 2010 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
Is it just me or does this feel a bit overengineered? I mean, you could just carry a gameboy?]]>Apr 14th 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
Is a Gameboy only $15? :)

This thing's great. Now they need to make "legit" versions of this that actually plug into the phone's ports, sport an analog stick, etc. I would pay TOP dollar for a sweet implementation of that, especially if it was on a WinPho7 or iPhone handset (I'm really looking forward to XBL mobile and Apple's attempt at it)]]>Apr 14th 2010 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Not to be a n00b-poster, but this is good information:
For anybody who wants to request that a GG be made for their phone, go here:

http://sites.google.com/site/gamegripper/other-phones/request-form

(This is their site btw, I'm not spamming lol)
You can even suggest COLOURS! (Main Body & Buttons)
Go G1!!!!]]>Apr 14th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Not if it's good solid plastic with little obtrusions at the ends.

That would keep the plastic from flexing, and would alleviate the pressure to the first contact points (the obtrusions).

Size matters (that's what she said) on the obtrusions though, if they're too big the plastic WILL flex, and make the keyboard type, as well as possibly cracking the casing or 'chip.

Unless you totally suck at a game and are getting frustrated, you shouldn't be hitting the keys hard enough to damage anything, or get "stuck keys."]]>Apr 14th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/All-in-all I'm sure they thought of such a flaw to begin with... I doubt it's an issue.]]>Apr 14th 2010 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
Any backside shots of this clip on? I wonder if this thing has coverage for the diagonal directions on the d-pad. If not, it's definitely not for serious gaming.]]>Apr 14th 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
instead of "keyboarddddd" it would be "keyboard" with a side of "would you like to insert a special character" popup window.

At least, that's how things on my Milestone are. I wish I could find the setting where it would just repeat. Sometimes i want to drag out my words, like thiiiissssss!]]>Apr 14th 2010 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
wait... i dont have a droid ._.]]>Apr 14th 2010 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
Brilliant!

Little awkward reaching higher up with left hand to get at dpad instead of just putting dpad on left side of slide out qwerty, but very interesting observation none the less.]]>Apr 14th 2010 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
(inb4 someone does this and patents it, thereby screwing the whole market...)]]>Apr 14th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/As far as R2D2's "english", Engadget has a built in translater for the comments section. What actually stuns me, however, is that fact that R2D2 (a droid) not only uses a Droid, but runs emulators and plays games on it in which he destroys robots. He's obviously a very sick little droid.]]>Apr 14th 2010 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/another vote for a trackpoint on my droid. ]]>Apr 14th 2010 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
Zip it, Goldenrod--I'm trying to think of a witty comment. . .]]>Apr 14th 2010 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
Lord Vader... see what thou hast wrought upon engadget????]]>Apr 14th 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/You mean Cee-Threepio (C3PO). FAIL AT YOUR OWN NAME.]]>Apr 14th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
Actually, he's right:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C3po

I remember it being spelled that way in the "Star Wars Storybook" I had when I was a kid (and R2-D2 was spelled "Artoo-Detoo").

That book was interesting because it had photos from stuff that wasn't in the movie (Luke talking to Biggs, and a shot of Threepio sitting in Ben's house with a human hand because Anthony Daniels forgot to put on his glove for that take, etc.).

So to sum up, -1 for you.]]>Apr 14th 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
]]>Apr 14th 2010 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programing binary load lifters very similar to your vaporators in most respe--]]>Apr 14th 2010 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
(What about that blue one?)




---well played]]>Apr 14th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Er, this is not the Droid you are looking for?]]>Apr 14th 2010 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
The Droid is black
The 'pad is white
together they game
into the night

-a beautiful sight...]]>Apr 14th 2010 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
Basically, won't someone come out with a modern-day Nokia N-Gage already!
http://www.letsgomobile.org/images/news/nokia/nokia_ngage.jpg

Sony, what the hell are you waiting for?!?
... a PSPhone would be PERFECT.]]>Apr 14th 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
But I don't see the Pink phones really having those capabilities unfortunately. Sure they got keyboards, but for some reason MS (and apparently every other phone company) thinks that people want to be on a social network or other ghey crap like that 24/7. "Twitter" and "Facebook" have become the latest buzzwords in an industry that doesn't know jack about what people really want to do with these gadgets.

I am really hoping that the WinMo7 phones have better gaming capabilities... and not just in having good graphics and a fast CPU, but good buttons/directional pad. ]]>Apr 14th 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/agreed,
we need an easier input that touchpad for games.
I mean my droid(milestone here) is so hard to use with gba-emu.
Everytime I play FFTTA I feel like Im ripping my keyboard.
PSP PHONE WHERE ARE THOU.

I mean, just think about it, a microsoft/palm/HTC/motorola phone with gaming buttons and a real d-pad (like the one on Gameboy) and/or an analog stick ? Doesnt fit to the company's image, does it ?
PSPhone would make more sense imho !]]>Apr 15th 2010 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/
You can find the running thread here: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-accessories/37680-droid-game-pad-game-gripper.html

You can buy it here: http://sites.google.com/site/gamegripper/home

or on Ebay here: http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Motorola-Droid-Game-pad-accessory-Game-Gripper_W0QQitemZ180493851151QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPDA_Accessories?hash=item2a06459a0f]]>Apr 14th 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/14/game-gripper-puts-your-droid-s-d-pad-where-it-belongs-video/Apr 14th 2010 10:46AM