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the idea of an arm- powered device that maximizes efficiency in battery life

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while offering adequate performance is a pretty good one and it's funny to me

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that on the laptop side of things everyone's kind of going that direction

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while on the handheld gaming side of things I'm looking at a device like the

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IOP pocket s asking in a world where the steam deck and its various competitors

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exist why do you need to I will say this

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right out of the box the form factor G

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justifies it a little bit I actually am

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kind of loving the feel of this thing IO has apparently been working on this with

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Qualcomm for nearly a year and it features qualcomm's New g3x Gen 2 can I

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just say for a moment I hate their branding in a nutshell this is a gaming

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Centric so that seems to be most closely related to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 with a

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similar octacore layout but a beefed up

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GPU that runs at a higher clock speed which in our testing we did observe has

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an impact on the heat of the device in

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its highest performance profile let's just say it got a little toasty

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especially up in the top left where the S so is speakers a fully-fledged USB 3.2

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Gen 2 Port ooh micro SD expansion hey so

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it turns out they can put these on phones see I thought it was impossible

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hey Gary what's the side switch do oh it's a turbo mode switch we got our

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bumpers our triggers which are hall effect as well as our tertiary buttons

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volume and of course our power of course the real action is happening on the face

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which has a better than a DS but not as

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good as a full-size joystick like feel I actually really don't mind this layout

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the d-pad has been a source of consternation in the community the feel

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to it seems suitably adequate for me but

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IO has acknowledged the issues and are apparently issuing fixes oh this is a

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fixed one oh well that explains why it feels good then oo fully unleash the

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performance got it proceed we actually wouldn't

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necessarily recommend that we found that the best balance of battery life

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performance and user experience was in balanced performance mode with the low

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fan mode and boy I can see why you guys

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adjusted the fan mode good gravy does this thing ever ramp

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up jeez guys I want to take a quick look

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at the rest of the buttons but before I do that Gary's going to put the back of

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his body in the frame car come on this side look they didn't have video cameras

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when he was born so Gary yes I can't figure out what half

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of these buttons do okay these don't seem to do anything yeah uh this is the

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most important one so that's cool ispace is something that I do have experience

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with on their x86 handheld devices okay controller configuration this is a big

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bug bear for these Android devices is yeah sure there's so many emulators that

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are available for the platform now but sometimes getting controls bound to them

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can be a problem and it was great here right yes oh no it

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wasn't performance was actually quite good but U mapping the controls was a

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hit and miss Affair let me try it out and before I do that I'm going to tell

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of their main selling points for this thing are the beefy Vapor chamber cooler

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as well as their like biology inspired

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metal ring around the outside that I'm

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really not sure if I fully understand what the heck it is that they're talking

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about but I will say that the cooling

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definitely seems to add some heft to this thing this is a dense device fun

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fact by the way hall effect does not mean quality it just means that it uses

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magnetic actuation like it uses magnetism to determine where exactly the

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stick is tilted the mechanical centering

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is still done by not magnets and if there's any inconsistency from one to

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the next then you could still need to have a lot of slop or big dead zones

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built into your product in order to make sure that when it's centered your

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character isn't you know moving around or or or drifting

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seriously I can't bind the right stick to pan the oh my God man talk about

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fixing one problem and creating another one I got my cool onscreen controls and

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everything too bad I can't see anything what's going on see yeah just like yeah

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exactly like I've got about as much

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visibility as you guys do I think so you can see it's like it's trying to work

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what are you even doing buddy oh yeah look at

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that oh I could make this work no no I got this I just need way more actions

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per minute one of the big highlights is of course the screen which uh now that

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I've turned it up all the way it's pretty darn bright we measured it at

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just over the 400 nits that it's rated for that right stick thing just stay in

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the middle are you kidding me right now settings theoretically I shouldn't have

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to do this anyway this game has controller

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support man which is a shame cuz this is

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the kind of thing I'd love to play on the performance in our testing was

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pretty solid we got anywhere from 6 to 10 hours of battery life depending on

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the performance profile the screen was pretty good it's IPS so you're not going

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to get that amazing contrast that you'd get out of an OLED but it exceeded their

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specifications for brightness and had reasonable color volume I even quite

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like the ergonomics it's just that some of the oversights here I just don't

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understand how they made their way into a finished product this controller

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binding issue like you can buy a backbone strap it to your Android phone

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and you're immediately having a better experience also the screen for all the

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good things that I said about it is only 60 HZ which means you're not even really

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taking advantage of the highest possible

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performance you can get out of this device because you're going to be 60fps

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locked the other big one for us is the price I mean if this was coming in and

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it was 250 50 bucks or something like

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that like it was a higher performance version of something like a Logitech

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g-cloud and I could just use this to stream games all day and night off of

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Microsoft service or off of NVIDIA's game streaming service well all of a

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sudden at least it's got a reason for existing but starting at

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$59 I mean good Lord you're up against

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the entry level price for an x86 handheld and I mean they could run like

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any game you want does IO have justification for any of this other than

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please buy it oh there's a 1440p limited

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edition but then wait that's the only one that we can seem to find for sale so

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in theory it actually starts at around $400 it's just that that's for the 1080p

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version that we can't seem to find for sale anywhere I it was a funny company

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every once in a while they absolutely nail it and then there's this the Ayn

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Odin on paper doesn't look as good but at the much lower price makes a lot of

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sense I don't know maybe we'll see some a future handheld from them since

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they're collaborating with qualcom anyway and we'll get something more like

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a gaming handheld version of a Snapdragon X Elite or something like

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that and it'll it'll like really be awesome uh I just don't see putting my

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money into this one but I see putting my money into ShortCircuit so subscribe so

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that I don't waste it hey