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steam deck's been delayed now what am I

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gonna do to play games on the go Gamepad digital's got the answer the GPD XP it's

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an Android device that promises to be everything modern gaming phones can be

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at a significantly lower price of Entry but it's not phone and it's got a parlor

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trick that valve never thought to pull

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haha it's got swappable controls but

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unlike the steam deck it's not a Mini PC so what can you do with it and does it

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this thing is basically half switch half phone with swappable controls and

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bizarrely dual 4G sim card slots at

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first glance you'd be forgiven for thinking it's like the Rog phone but no

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only the right section comes off the left section is part of the chassis so

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thankfully it doesn't do voice calls or we'd be one step away from a Nokia

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engage Taco phone situation data access does make sense since GPD is marketing

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this as a way to play mobile games including first person shooters to

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achieve that the removal controls aren't just for show the right side can either

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be blanked off to become a great answer to lead your team to victory in mobile

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games fit in with a traditional thumbstick and button controls for

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emulators and streamed console games or replaced with a five button hotkey

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cluster the GPD says is ideal for first-person shooters that might not

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look too intuitive but the idea is that you can aim with your thumb on the

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touchscreen and use these buttons for utility features the buttons feel

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characteristically good for a GPD product and compared to smaller

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handhelds like the retroid pocket 2 and Amber neck rg351m the sticks are much

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nicer feeling they're the same as the GPD win 3. true to gpd's Roots all

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controller modules can switch between Xbox mode or touch simulator mode via a

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dedicated button next to the thumbstick

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but enough about controls the device itself is running Android 11 with gpd's

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very not inspired by Microsoft Metro UI and yes they actually call it Metro

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that's a lot newer than the Android 6 you'll find on the retroid pocket 2 or

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Android 7 on the previous gen GPD XD plus and helps to make it relevant for

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more than just retro Gamers that's why it's so strange that GPD chose a

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mediatek helio g95 SOC which is well

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below upcoming competitors like the iron Odin and ktr1 which both sport the far

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more capable Snapdragon 845 it's going to have the drive of a 60hz 1080p tall

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IPS display which they call Sunshine screen it's not super premium and it has

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a lot of ips glow but it's reasonably bright and wouldn't get a place on a

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mid-range smartphone unlike one of those it's got an integrated active cooling

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fan that should hopefully prevent throttling over longer sessions and with

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that very mid-range SOC the chonky 7000

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milliamp hour battery just by giving some serious endurance the biggest

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Flagship smartphones typically ship with 5 000 milliamp hours or less with

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brighter screens and much more power hungry socs in fact it dropped less than

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20 percent from Full over an hour of gameplay in Super Mario Sunshine

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there's 128 gigs of ufs storage on board

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with the ability to swap one of the Nano Sims for a Micro SD card you could

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theoretically expand it even further with the USB type-c port if it could be

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relied upon to grip the cable look it falls right out

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thankfully you definitely won't be filling up your storage using the hole

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punch camera at 5 megapixels it's primarily marketed for video calls which

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is better than nothing for I guess you'd probably prefer to use a real smartphone

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for that but I'm not your mom if I was I'd tell you to buy a water bottle from

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ltdstore.com and stay hydrated more easily with the new caps I won't be

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around to take care of you forever the speakers would normally be unremarkable

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on a handheld like this but these are supplied by AAC Technologies a Chinese

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company who happens to be the supplier that Apple uses and these are in fact

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double coil speakers and well they're

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remarkably clear but an iPhone this is not

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there's no base just mids in trouble great for phone calls but none of the

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included arcade titles are being done Justice here you'd think there'd be more

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space for resonant Chambers in here let's take it apart and see for

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ourselves the screws are all Phillips and all the

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same size that is to say quite tiny there's a few Clips too but once it's

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off check out the size of that battery

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there's the active cooler and hey the sticks on a separate PCB just like the

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steam deck get subscribed by the way because if it's not clear by now we're

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definitely doing more content on the steam deck and you won't want to miss it down here are the speakers they're not

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tiny but they're not huge either there's definitely enough room in here for

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larger resonance Chambers if they tried oh well let's button it back up and play

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some games the built-in Neo Geo game seem to work pretty well although that's

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to be expected input lag seems pretty low as well and the controls feel

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responsive as we come to expect from GPD devices even in the games that don't

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ship with the console while the dolphin Gamecube Emulator is one of the pre-installed apps it's not quite

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running at full speed you will get the full 30fps most of the time in Super

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Mario Sunshine for example but Shader compilation and some special effects

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will bring the game's FPS down to the high single digits to say nothing of

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more complex titles what's worse the version of dolphin

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included with the device doesn't make use of the controllers so you need to

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map the touch inputs manually the PSP emulator on the other hand does work

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with controller natively and runs reliably at 2x upscale often even at the

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native 1080p resolution of the handheld although it does drop frames here and

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there if you do that but this isn't primarily marketed for emulation the

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Amber Nixon retroids of the world are much cheaper and already do a good job

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of that GPD spins this as a console for modern mobile games and pubg mobile and

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Minecraft are good candidates for the additional controllers but while setting

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up the touch control simulator isn't difficult for these and there's very

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little if any delay frame rates aren't great we're getting 30 or 40 FPS in pubg

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at best and in Minecraft's default settings frame rate fluctuates between

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60 and what looks like somewhere in the 30s depending on what you're looking at

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regardless of the graphic settings if you're willing to reduce the draw

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distance below the default of 20 you might actually be able to get a solid

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60fps speaking of FPS woes the FPS

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module bizarrely places the trigger lower down on the grip than a standard

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controller which will take some getting used to it's kind of like if a Dreamcast

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controller also had shoulder buttons but there's there's less to grip

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but I do the traditional controller grip while comfortable is already a little

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bit on the smaller side so the FPS module ends up being painful for me to

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use for any length of time and that's not the only issue here the flat cap let

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me grab this real quick to kind of show you what's going on here

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normally these controls what they do is slide directly on and off of this rail

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here it takes a fair bit of force to get that off by the way this flat cap is

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exactly what it sounds like it is flat and it just flops on there like that

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with the magnets there's nothing here

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normally there's like something like this this here covers this but there's

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nothing there and so visually and like

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in terms of feel this is really distracting to me not only that

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but these grips are not easy to align normally what I

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want to do what I'm putting this together is like kind of get in like

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that to kind of get it into the the hole properly then slide it into place but if

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you do that what's going to happen is you're going to have a little bit of a

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lip on the console itself between the controller and the console and that

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actually makes it more difficult to take this off what you're supposed to do is

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line it up very carefully so that the tabs get into those rails and then push

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it together and even then sometimes you'll get mixed results this time I got

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it 100 but your mileage may vary very

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dramatically here oh and while we're talking about weird control issues the

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hardware Android buttons are in fact uh

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labeled backwards oops which encapsulates the overall experience

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pretty well you're losing a more powerful soc for a big battery you're

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losing a cohesive experience like you get with an Amber neck for a more

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versatile Android UI you're gaining bulk for swappable controls and while the

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build quality is solid you're going to pay a premium for it over those other

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devices is it worth it to be able to play mobile games on a secondary device

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as someone who doesn't play competitive mobile games

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I can't say but as someone who daily

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drove a PSP for years and years I can say that the emulation capabilities are

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promising but at around 350 dollars

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it's not a big leap to 3.99 for an entry-level steam deck a handheld that

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can do all this and run PC games albeit with lower battery life when that

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console finally launches these premium Android handhelds may not be able to

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