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GPD XD Now Shipping, Lowest Price Now At GearBest! UPDATE: Read Comments First.
During my usual Sunday morning perusal of the China web stores I noticed that one of my favourite shops is now shipping the GPD XD, and what’s more they have the cheapest price I’ve seen for the 32GB...
View ArticleGPD XD Reviews Start Rolling In
As GPD’s new handheld begins crossing the seas and falling into the hands of eager early adopters, reviews are starting to pop up on YouTube. Here are a few of the ones I’ve found most informative:...
View ArticleAshens (Briefly) Reviews The Revo K101+
I emailed this chap about 2 years ago because the Revo team wanted to send him an original unit, but he never got back to me. Well anyway, he’s got himself a crystal black Plus version now and talks a...
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Potential Bargain Alert // Update: Offer is Over
Whether or not this is a mistake on Gearbest’s behalf I don’t know, but if you remember those 8BITDO FC30 bluetooth controllers from a while back then you’ll probably remember that they were about $30...
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JXD Awakes From Hibernation With Their “Singularity” S192 Handheld
The sleeping giant awakes! It’s been over 2 years since JXD released their last flagship handheld, the S7800B, and things have been very quiet from the ShenZhen based company since then. Since 2013 GPD...
View ArticleI Kinda Want One Of These // Update: Didn’t Meet Target :(
Kickstarter link —> click Update 14/1/16 Unfortunately this thing fell well short of its €190,000 goal, pulling in only €49,000 before funding ended. That’s a shame.
View ArticleJXD’s Youtube Channel Shows The S192 In Action
It must be nearly time, in the past couple of days JXD have uploaded a bunch of videos demoing their new flagship in action. For whatever reason, the videos are very GTA heavy, show casing San...
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Evil Dragon’s Pyra Reaches Prototype Stage
Sort of… In all seriousness, I can’t imagine the amount of work it has taken to get to this stage, so kudos to them. It seems ED has been in Greece recently checking out the plant that are producing...
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Sir Clive Sinclair Revives the ZX Spectrum
Hands up who’d old enough to remember the ZX Spectrum? I am, just about. One of my friends had one in the late 80s or early 90s and I remember going to his to play Skool Daze on it. I tried to...
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GPD Are Back With Something A Little Different, The GPD WIN // UPDATE: Target...
It started in December 2015 as a bit of back and forth between GPD staff and the community of the Dingoonity boards – talk of the possibility in them building a Windows 10 handheld. Some (very) rough...
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Out Of Nowhere Comes PGSLab
Past experience of companies materialising out of nowhere and promising a machine that seems too good to be true should tell us this – Don’t get too excited about the handheld that PGSLabs have...
View ArticlePyra Pre-Orders Go Live
Yep, it’s happening. The Dragonbox Pyra has reached the next level and is now available to pre-order. Down payments are being taken at ED’s shop, with remainders to be paid when the unit is available...
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GPD WIN – First Prototype Video Emerges
It seems GPD are more or less on track according to the timeline they posted when the Indiegogo project went live. We’re now in June and GPD have at least one working prototype unit made. The video...
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Smach Z to Return to Kickstarter Next Month
Last year this SteamOS powered handheld arrived on Kickstarter with a $900k goal and no working prototype. Unsurprisingly things didn’t go as planned and the campaign was pulled before the end. The...
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GPD WIN Begins Shipping
Pretty much right on schedule, GPD have begun shipping their Windows 10 handhelds out. In true crowd funding style, many backers are still waiting for theirs to ship whilst others have simply bought...
View ArticleThe Super Retro Boy Is A Thing
The Super Retro Boy from Retro-Bit (it’s not on their site yet) is yet another reason that Nintendo should re-release the GBA. Retro Bit have done a brain fart and bundled the GBA hardware into an...
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GPD Smashes Targets Again With Their Metal Body UMPC
GPD’s new Indiegogo campaign has been open only a few hours and they’ve almost reached their $200k target already. The GPD Pocket is a 7 inch magnesium alloy clad UMPC which borrows its design heavily...
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Build Your Own RPi Gameboy Advance With Freeplaytech’s Kits
Despite not having been updated since 2015, Google Now is still my Launcher of choice because of the articles it recommends for me in the swipe left screen. Today’s mildly interesting read came in the...
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BittBoy’s Cute Little Homage To The Game Boy
Little handhelds like this are a dime a dozen, but it’s not often they look quite as adorable as this thing. The BittBoy is obviously a homage to the original Nintendo Game Boy in design, but instead...
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BittBoy Handheld NES Emulator Review
The BittBoy manufacturer was kind enough to ask if I’d like a Bittboy free for review, and not being one to look a gift horse in the mouth I of course graciously accepted. Now I know that there are...
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