cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46974718

So this retro handheld review might have been my favorite so far. I have such an obsession with design language (be it gaming or all the way to architecture), and seeing something as unique and different as this rotating touch screen on a retro handheld? It won me over without a second’s hesitation

This handheld is a nicely squished cube with rounded corners, has a touch screen, obviously flips up to be a gaming handheld you can (comfortably) play PlayStation/PSP and even some few GameCube/PS2 games. Although you’d have to be crazy to buy this for GCN/PS2. They’re just a happy bonus (really, this is NOT a PS2 machine)

Playing music or streaming music is a blast, as are audiobooks. I’ve had the most fun playing GBA and PS games on here, but if you’re interested in my review, you can check it out here:

https://gardinerbryant.com/hands-on-with-the-anbernic-rg-rotate/

Or, you can just ask me what you’d like to know if you’d prefer to not! I love this damn thing. If I could wear it on a belt loop, I promise you I would be doing that like it is the olden days of phones!

  • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I would have liked hearing about how it works in use - I get that you like it because it’s different, but I don’t know how that fact that it flips makes it different in use.

    • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Hi there! Sorry, I’m the author of the article (just noticed this was cross-posted), so I can address this!

      I guess the fact it rotates out isn’t going to be earth shattering, if you’re looking for that being the one reason it is worth owning (a rotating mechanism for the display), you wouldn’t get it. But to me being able to use it for things like listening to music (on-device, offline music, or streaming), watching an older anime episode, an audiobook, or scrolling through Mastodon while it is in the cube format, then being able to flip it open to play some GBA just makes it unique.

      I have it sitting on my desk or shelf as I work, propped up facing me to stream music. Then I can pick it right up after I’m done and go back to FFVII on there.

      I just like how this handheld ‘feels’. Smooth rounded corners and edges, and with a super satisfying weight to it. And I don’t think that ‘feel’ ever gets enough coverage for retro handhelds.

      Sorry, maybe I’m struggling to convey how nice it is to use with words here!