 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the SteelSeries Free, which contrary to what you might believe, having heard the name of the product, costs money. Not very much money mind you, it's not super expensive, but it is super freedom enhancing, which is I think what they were going for with the name, but what it sounds like is that it doesn't cost anything. So there it is, tiny little game controller, which has huge, huge functionality, especially once we get into a little bit more about it and you guys understand what's going on here. So first things first, we've got a quick start guide, which is thick, they should call it a thick start guide. Yeah. Alright, how to configure your free on different devices, carrying pouch, USB cable, quick start guide, Android, iOS, including iPhones, iPads, iPods, PC, Mac, general information, pairing mode, buttons, end of English. So what you guys may have figured out based on that is that there's a SteelSeries sticker inside as well as a little guide to their free product family and the flux product family, which I also have here, which is some pretty sweet baller looking headphones. What you may have figured out is that this is pretty much universally compatible with any number of different platforms and it is for playing games. Now the first thing that came to mind for me is, holy crap, I have a Bluetooth controller that is portable and wireless and convenient and I can use it to play like SNES games on an emulator on my Android tablet. Holy freaking crap. Of course, that's not what we're supposed to use it for because nobody has any SNES games on their tablet on an emulator because that is not what you do. No. You're playing other games. However, if you have other games, it'll work with that too. So you got a pretty bog standard configuration. It's perfect for SNES games, although you won't be playing those, with a left and right shoulder button, a D-pad, A and B, as well as, yeah, sorry, sorry, A, B, X, sorry, 1, 2, 3, 4. Those are the other buttons. However, you got a couple of analog sticks, which actually, they're a little stiff, but they'll probably loosen up in time. They feel pretty good. Not bad considering, again, the cost of the controller and the size. So you got a couple analog sticks in case you want to use those for other games that you're not playing on an SNES. I mean, you're not playing any games on an SNES. This joke's old. So charging. You get about 10 hours of intense gaming with the device when it's got a full charge and around 20 plus hours of casual gaming where you're sort of using it sometimes and then not using it other times. And I don't know what he's pointing at. I don't know what he's pointing at. Poor Slick. Cable length. Oh, cable length. Oh, he wants to, no, the cable doesn't matter. The cable's just for charging. You can charge it and play it on your computer at the same time. Well, yeah, you could, but then. Bluetooth anyway. So it's cordless, but Slick wants, okay, fine. It's this long. One line is arm length and one line is chest width. Long. And other than that, I guess let's just look sort of closely at it and how awesome it is and how small it is. Oh, you know what? This might be kind of funny. So this is it next to my hands. So you can see that I will have no difficulty using this. Now I'm going to go ahead and take the camera from Slick and I'd like him to hold it in his hands. So if you are a large person like Slick, who's basically a giant, it might not be perfect for you. Sometimes they come out with like a free XL or like, you know, free something and it's a little bit bigger. But for now, this is perfect for girls, children, and men with girly hands. Thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips.