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blanked off to become a great answer to lead your team to victory in mobile games fit in with a traditional thumbstick and button controls for emulators and streamed console games or replaced with a five button hotkey cluster the GPD says is ideal for first-person shooters that might not look too intuitive but the idea is that you can aim with your thumb on the touchscreen and use these buttons for utility features the buttons feel characteristically good for a GPD product and compared to smaller handhelds like the retroid pocket 2 and Amber neck rg351m the sticks are much nicer feeling they're the same as the GPD win 3. true to gpd's Roots all controller modules can switch between Xbox mode or touch simulator mode via a dedicated button next to the thumbstick but enough about controls the device itself is running Android 11 with gpd's very not inspired by Microsoft Metro UI and yes they actually call it Metro that's a lot newer than the Android 6 you'll find on the retroid pocket 2 or Android 7 on the previous gen GPD XD plus and helps to make it relevant for more than just retro Gamers that's why it's so strange that GPD chose a mediatek helio g95 SOC which is well below upcoming competitors like the iron Odin and ktr1 which both sport the far more capable Snapdragon 845 it's going to have the drive of a 60hz 1080p tall IPS display which they call Sunshine screen it's not super premium and it has a lot of ips glow but it's reasonably bright and wouldn't get a place on a mid-range smartphone unlike one of those it's got an integrated active cooling fan that should hopefully prevent throttling over longer sessions and with that very mid-range SOC the chonky 7000 milliamp hour battery just by giving some serious endurance the biggest Flagship smartphones typically ship with 5 000 milliamp hours or less with brighter screens and much more power hungry socs in fact it dropped less than 20 percent from Full over an hour of gameplay in Super Mario Sunshine there's 128 gigs of ufs storage on board with the ability to swap one of the Nano Sims for a Micro SD card you could theoretically expand it even further with the USB type-c port if it could be relied upon to grip the cable look it falls right out thankfully you definitely won't be filling up your storage using the hole punch camera at 5 megapixels it's primarily marketed for video calls which is better than nothing for I guess you'd probably prefer to use a real smartphone for that but I'm not your mom if I was I'd tell you to buy a water bottle from ltdstore.com and stay hydrated more easily with the new caps I won't be around to take care of you forever the speakers would normally be unremarkable on a handheld like this but these are supplied by AAC Technologies a Chinese company who happens to be the supplier that Apple uses and these are in fact double coil speakers and well they're remarkably clear but an iPhone this is not there's no base just mids in trouble great for phone calls but none of the included arcade titles are being done Justice here you'd think there'd be more space for resonant Chambers in here let's take it apart and see for ourselves the screws are all Phillips and all the same size that is to say quite tiny there's a few Clips too but once it's off check out the size of that battery there's the active cooler and hey the sticks on a separate PCB just like the steam deck get subscribed by the way because if it's not clear by now we're definitely doing more content on the steam deck and you won't want to miss it down here are the speakers they're not tiny but they're not huge either there's definitely enough room in here for larger resonance Chambers if they tried oh well let's button it back up and play some games the built-in Neo Geo game seem to work pretty well although that's to be expected input lag seems pretty low as well and the controls feel responsive as we come to expect from GPD devices even in the games that don't ship with the console while the dolphin Gamecube Emulator is one of the pre-installed apps it's not quite running at full speed you will get the full 30fps most of the time in Super Mario Sunshine for example but Shader compilation and some special effects will bring the game's FPS down to the high single digits to say nothing of more complex titles what's worse the version of dolphin included with the device doesn't make use of the controllers so you need to map the touch inputs manually the PSP emulator on the other hand does work with controller natively and runs reliably at 2x upscale often even at the native 1080p resolution of the handheld although it does drop frames here and there if you do that but this isn't primarily marketed for emulation the Amber Nixon retroids of the world are much cheaper and already do a good job of that GPD spins this as a console for modern mobile games and pubg mobile and Minecraft are good candidates for the additional controllers but while setting up the touch control simulator isn't difficult for these and there's very little if any delay frame rates aren't great we're getting 30 or 40 FPS in pubg at best and in Minecraft's default settings frame rate fluctuates between 60 and what looks like somewhere in the 30s depending on what you're looking at regardless of the graphic settings if you're willing to reduce the draw distance below the default of 20 you might actually be able to get a solid 60fps speaking of FPS woes the FPS module bizarrely places the trigger lower down on the grip than a standard controller which will take some getting used to it's kind of like if a Dreamcast controller also had shoulder buttons but there's there's less to grip but I do the traditional controller grip while comfortable is already a little bit on the smaller side so the FPS module ends up being painful for me to use for any length of time and that's not the only issue here the flat cap let me grab this real quick to kind of show you what's going on here normally these controls what they do is slide directly on and off of this rail here it takes a fair bit of force to get that off by the way this flat cap is exactly what it sounds like it is flat and it just flops on there like that with the magnets there's nothing here normally there's like something like this this here covers this but there's nothing there and so visually and like in terms of feel this is really distracting to me not only that but these grips are not easy to align normally what I want to do what I'm putting this together is like kind of get in like that to kind of get it into the the hole properly then slide it into place but if you do that what's going to happen is you're going to have a little bit of a lip on the console itself between the controller and the console and that actually makes it more difficult to take this off what you're supposed to do is line it up very carefully so that the tabs get into those rails and then push it together and even then sometimes you'll get mixed results this time I got it 100 but your mileage may vary very dramatically here oh and while we're talking about weird control issues the hardware Android buttons are in fact uh labeled backwards oops which encapsulates the overall experience pretty well you're losing a more powerful soc for a big battery you're losing a cohesive experience like you get with an Amber neck for a more versatile Android UI you're gaining bulk for swappable controls and while the build quality is solid you're going to pay a premium for it over those other devices is it worth it to be able to play mobile games on a secondary device as someone who doesn't play competitive mobile games I can't say but as someone who daily drove a PSP for years and years I can say that the emulation capabilities are promising but at around 350 dollars it's not a big leap to 3.99 for an entry-level steam deck a handheld that can do all this and run PC games albeit with lower battery life when that console finally 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