When the Razer Edge shipped earlier this yr, it included a higher-end model of Razer’s $100 Kishi V2 cell controller — a tool eerily much like well-known competitor the Spine One. Now you will get the $130 Android-only Kishi V2 Professional controller by itself, in considered one of two variants: the usual model and a specifically licensed Xbox Version that features — look ahead to it — an Xbox button below the best joystick for an additional $20 (out there solely in North America).The Professional fashions provide two options you’ll be able to’t get for the additional bucks: a 3.5mm audio jack, which suggests now you can use a wired headset and cost on the identical time, and rumble assist (buzzwordly recognized as of late as “haptics”).So, yay for the three.5mm jack, which works as anticipated, however I am not a giant fan of Razer’s HyperSense audio-based haptics. For many video games, it is not based mostly on cues within the sport, it is based mostly on sound frequencies, so that you get some bizarre vibrations. Right here it is even weirder, as a result of there’s so little bass within the cellphone’s sound system (at the least in my Samsung Galaxy Extremely S22), so, for example, background music vibrates and nothing seems like a rumble. The design is in any other case the identical. It comes with further rubber tabs you’ll be able to slide in at both finish to offer a extra comfortable match or increase the digicam bump barely so it does not press towards the again assist, however I have a tendency to seek out that makes it harder than I prefer to snap within the cellphone. A 3.5mm jack (left) joins the for-charging-only USB-C port (proper) Lori Grunin/CNETRazer up to date its Nexus app together with this rollout, and I am nonetheless not loopy about it. For example, fairly than realizing I am signed in to Xbox Recreation Move by way of its app, it at all times tells me that to allow haptics for it I’ve to launch Chrome and allow a browser setting that is not there and tries to make me play in Chrome. And if you happen to exit a sport or the app unexpectedly — say, when it is making an attempt to throw you out to Chrome however the message does not have an choice to cancel since you preserve forgetting it does not deal with Recreation Move login accurately — it loses the connection to the controller. Then you must disconnect and reconnect it bodily, as a result of there isn’t any technique to power a connection refresh in software program. That is not the solely scenario during which the cellphone stops recognizing it, both.So whereas I proceed to love the Kishi V2 line for the crisp controls and simple in-and-out, and I am glad to see the devoted audio jack within the Professional, it is nonetheless extra irritating than I might like in some methods. Perhaps V3 would be the attraction.