WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.720 Don't tell my wife, but I've been over gaming devices that only go one way for 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:11.759 a long time. I need something that swings 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:14.480 both ways. And that is where the 1X 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:19.439 Sugar comes in. This thing is Wow. For something that has so many hinges, it 00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:25.760 feels kind of unhinged, does it not? It's got two screens, a wide variety of 00:00:23.279 --> 00:00:31.519 different configurations, and a performance story that is at best 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:37.120 complicated. Before we get into that though, let's take a look at the 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:40.000 accessories. You get one cable and one 00:00:37.120 --> 00:00:44.640 power brick. It's a neat one with cute little foldout prongs, though. Okay, 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:50.640 let's put that aside and talk about the modes. This is mode one, single screen 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:56.399 horizontal gaming. And I haven't even touched on all the modularity that's at 00:00:53.039 --> 00:01:00.559 play here. Whoa, look at that. It's a 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:02.960 magnetic D-pad that sits on top of what 00:01:00.559 --> 00:01:08.720 otherwise could easily be ABXY buttons, or as I call them, filled square, filled 00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:11.119 circle, empty circle, empty diamond. It 00:01:08.720 --> 00:01:15.200 doesn't feel amazing, obviously, but to the 1X team's credit, it feels better 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:22.400 than I could have possibly expected. Now, let's look at the next mode. Mode 00:01:17.759 --> 00:01:25.200 two, single screen B vertical mode. 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:29.040 This is unhinged. I can't imagine anybody wanting to play like this. It is 00:01:27.520 --> 00:01:34.720 so flipping topheavy. 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:36.479 Um, and holding on to this like what 00:01:34.720 --> 00:01:40.640 what did I really like the shape of the Wii remote as a controller but without 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:44.960 the motion sensing? Why would I want this? Fortunately, 1X thought of the 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:50.880 same thing which is why they created dual screen a folded standing mode 00:01:48.399 --> 00:01:55.840 three. Why it's called that is beyond my comprehension, but the actual layout is 00:01:53.680 --> 00:02:00.560 obviously going to be very familiar to uh players of a certain mobile Nintendo 00:01:58.399 --> 00:02:05.520 handheld back in the day with the larger top screen and smaller secondary utility 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:08.720 screen down below. One thing that is missing compared to the older consoles 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:12.959 that should remain nameless is any ability to uh angle either of the 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:19.680 screens. But hey, they more than make up for it. Maybe with dual screen B top 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:25.800 bottom display. Oh yeah, and I can move my D-pad over here should I so desire, 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:25.800 which I very much do. 00:02:27.760 --> 00:02:35.040 Yeah, I think this is why people are buying this, right? But also also this 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:39.760 one seems pretty reasonable. I think with that in mind, they probably could 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:45.040 have just made this a D-pad. Oh, wait. No, they couldn't have. Yep. That in 00:02:42.959 --> 00:02:50.480 fact was why the D-pad had to be optional because these are the two main 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:53.680 modes that you're likely to use. I wonder if these could have just been 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:57.200 magnetically attachable to an interface on the side. Then, oh, hey, speaking of 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:01.120 the side, why don't we take a look at the IO? Over on the right of the main 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:06.720 screen, you're going to find a micro SD card. Uh, here's some tape. Did we put 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:13.680 this on? Weird. Anywh who, uh, power button and not a 00:03:11.040 --> 00:03:20.959 whole lot else. Just a little spot for the magnet that holds the H controllers 00:03:17.519 --> 00:03:22.720 into place. Either here or here. Over on 00:03:20.959 --> 00:03:26.640 the other side, we've got our volume wheel. 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:31.200 Yep, that's a volume wheel. All right. And where the devil is our USBC port? 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:40.319 Oh, there it is. Right there on the Is it 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:43.599 the bottom? Uh, is it the top? It's 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:45.519 somewhere. It's there. On the back, 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:50.560 we've got what appears to be a ventilation fan as well as are these 00:03:48.239 --> 00:03:57.280 speaker grills? They must be. How does it know? Left and right. Ah, see, that's 00:03:54.319 --> 00:04:01.840 the thing. If you were expecting this to be an x86 PCbased device, you are 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:05.760 unfortunately going to be sorely disappointed. Well, I shouldn't say 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:11.840 sorely disappointed. While it does use a Qualcomm platform, so it runs Android, 00:04:08.720 --> 00:04:14.879 it uses the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, which 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:18.400 is based on TSMC's 4nmter process node 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:20.479 and should be a fairly potent mobile 00:04:18.400 --> 00:04:24.000 gaming solution. And with the way that Android emulators have improved over the 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:28.160 last little while, I mean, even Switch emulation is getting pretty good now, 00:04:25.520 --> 00:04:33.840 isn't it? 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You literally have 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:54.240 no idea how you did it. >> Follow my way through. >> Oh my god. Okay. Well, anyway, we've got 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:58.919 it set up. So, you can press the heart button, go to fusion. 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:05.440 Okay, we're close. We're close now. Uh, 00:06:02.479 --> 00:06:13.120 then we just need to go to this one and do that. Whoa. DS 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:15.039 emulation, buddy. Oh, I didn't even 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:21.440 notice the R1, R2, and R2, L2 buttons back 00:06:19.440 --> 00:06:26.000 here. Not the most conveniently positioned that I've ever felt, but very 00:06:23.840 --> 00:06:30.639 usable. Hey, sorry, I forgot to mention the case. The case actually feels really 00:06:28.080 --> 00:06:35.600 nice. It's like a faux leather uh hard case. Like, this is one of the finest 00:06:33.280 --> 00:06:41.440 included cases I've ever seen. Good job, 1X. So, these are actually two buttons 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:44.240 down here each, right? So, heart brings 00:06:41.440 --> 00:06:47.759 up 1X's little menu here, so we can fine-tune the performance. Apparently, 00:06:46.080 --> 00:06:50.880 they've got a dual heat pipe cooler in here, so it should stay nice and cool 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:56.720 regardless of what you're doing. As for battery life, that is a bit of a sore 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:59.039 spot for the community so far. Um, it 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:03.280 does have like a lower power to the secondary screen mode and you can 00:07:00.960 --> 00:07:06.400 apparently, according to 1x, get like 7 hours of battery life out of it. But you 00:07:04.960 --> 00:07:11.520 won't get that if you're running the whole thing at full board. It's got a 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:14.080 5600 mAh battery. It's still kind of 00:07:11.520 --> 00:07:17.680 topheavy. Hey, boys. especially if you're used to the ergonomics of a 00:07:15.840 --> 00:07:22.000 Nintendo DS, which admittedly already aren't great, but at least are not as 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:25.120 heavy on the top. Oh, it's touchscreen. I guess I didn't really mention that. 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:29.840 And these are both OLED displays boasting 450 nits peak brightness, so 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:36.400 that should be fine. Mario Kart DS. Let's go. Oh, really heavy. It's like 00:07:33.520 --> 00:07:40.160 freaking heavy. And this really is a lot of moving parts. Probably going to be a 00:07:38.400 --> 00:07:47.000 little rusty. Have not touched this game in many a year. I know. That's what they 00:07:43.599 --> 00:07:47.000 all say, right? 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:53.199 >> Whoops. What did I press? 00:07:50.960 --> 00:07:56.199 >> No. How did I hit that? I hit the whole track. 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:06.720 Oh my god. Just don't include any of this gameplay. This is horrible. This is 00:08:03.280 --> 00:08:08.639 the worst thing ever. Oh, okay. What did 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:13.919 I do to switch the screens there? That was horrible. 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:16.479 >> There. Okay. It's fixed. 00:08:13.919 --> 00:08:22.400 >> You know what? Screw it. I give up. Let's try a different emulator. 00:08:19.520 --> 00:08:26.800 >> Mario Kart Double Dash. It is. Uh, hello. All right. I guess we won't need 00:08:24.479 --> 00:08:32.959 the two screens anymore. So, we'll just do this. Ah. Ah. Okay. 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:39.680 Even though this is obviously substantially more difficult to run, I 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:42.000 got to say, um, 00:08:39.680 --> 00:08:46.480 not bad. These mobile chips have really come a long way. Yeah, these shoulders 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:50.000 are are not great. Especially when you're like kind of reaching in here to 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:54.880 get these instead of having your thumb across them. You kind of have to press 00:08:52.160 --> 00:08:59.360 this one like that. Where are the speakers on this boy? I think they're 00:08:56.560 --> 00:09:05.839 here, right? Oh, yeah. There we go. Okay. So, what am I looking at back 00:09:02.160 --> 00:09:08.800 here? Hold on. Where'd my Oh, wow. My 00:09:05.839 --> 00:09:13.360 volume wheel goes inside the device. Okay. I mean, at least one of them has 00:09:10.560 --> 00:09:17.120 to be an exhaust, but I pretty much can't hear anything. Oh, 1X is very 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:21.600 proud of their material choices, by the way. They use a an aluminum unibody 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:26.160 frame, uh, internally. The outside is plastic, and then they're using what 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:30.399 they call SK7 special steel for the hinge because it excels in applications 00:09:28.640 --> 00:09:34.560 requiring high hardness and wear resistance. It has a built-in gyro if 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:38.320 you like gyroscopic aiming. Oh boy, I appear to have closed my software. Hey, 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:42.160 speaking of software, I mean, this is just Android, right? So, theoretically, 00:09:39.760 --> 00:09:47.279 I could run Android games. Cool. We're going to listen to Genchin Impact and 00:09:43.839 --> 00:09:49.200 Crab Rave at the same time. 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:53.680 Oh. Oh, that's right. Genshin doesn't actually support controllers, does it? 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:58.160 It does. Oh, well. Oh, wait. Hold on. Oh, I just have to make my focus display 00:09:55.519 --> 00:10:03.360 this. Nope. Okay. Apparently, Genchin does support controllers now on Android 00:10:00.640 --> 00:10:08.560 and has for a little while. and we did get it working before, but is really, 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:12.080 really, really annoying. So, they clearly have some work to do on the 00:10:09.920 --> 00:10:17.120 software side. Of course, this is a prototype device as well. So, bear that 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:20.880 in mind, but I can only I can only show you guys what I have in my hands, and 00:10:18.560 --> 00:10:24.720 what I have in my hands is an imperfect menu and controller binding experience. 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:27.680 There is one more thing. It supports bypass charging, so you shouldn't wear 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:33.680 out your battery as much if you're plugged in while you're using it for long periods. Is this a second volume 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:39.440 rocker? Oh, it has What about second volume rocker? So, there's a wheel here 00:10:35.839 --> 00:10:40.959 and a volume rocker here. Hey, I just 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:46.160 noticed something that's missing, though. There's no headphone jack. 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:53.760 Speaking of being plugged in and gaming for long hours at a time, Bluetooth only 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:55.360 really on a device this big. I guess I 00:10:53.760 --> 00:10:58.720 kind of see it cuz it's got so many hinges and moving parts everywhere. But 00:10:56.959 --> 00:11:02.240 I feel like this would have been a good spot or like right here next to the 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:05.360 charging port. But who knows, maybe that would have cost extra. And Lord only 00:11:03.680 --> 00:11:10.640 knows, the last thing we needed was for this device to be more expensive. The 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:13.120 Indiegogo early bird price is $599 USD 00:11:10.640 --> 00:11:20.399 with 16 gigs of RAM and 512 gigs of storage. And the retail is expected to 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:23.839 be, is this right? $799, $800. 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:25.920 A truly unique device for folks who want 00:11:23.839 --> 00:11:33.680 to play DS games, but cannot afford a Nintendo DS, but can afford this. 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:37.920 You guys know who you are and you know you need to subscribe to ShortCircuit.