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quad@akko.quad.moe
The Anbernic RG Slide is so cool.
If this thing gets support from something like LineageOS, I'd buy one on the spot.
If this thing gets support from something like LineageOS, I'd buy one on the spot.
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I don't care if it weighs a ton and has twice the thickness of most phones, if I could get rid of the chinese and never-updated Android system on it, I'd throw my money at it.
Especially if it works as a phone, it'd be so massive that I'd look like a buffoon, but I don't care, I would daily drive one of these as a phone.
The Xperia Play is still my favorite phone of all time. Being able to slide a game controller out of my phone like a switchblade to play Pokemon Emerald for 15 minutes, then smack it shut when I need to leave, was the most satisfying thing.
Especially if it works as a phone, it'd be so massive that I'd look like a buffoon, but I don't care, I would daily drive one of these as a phone.
The Xperia Play is still my favorite phone of all time. Being able to slide a game controller out of my phone like a switchblade to play Pokemon Emerald for 15 minutes, then smack it shut when I need to leave, was the most satisfying thing.
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@quad so someone released a sony ericsson xperia play in a new suit?
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@vala No, it was probably an accident. It's not a phone and it's way too big by phone standards.
For some reason, chinese companies currently follow a trend of putting sliding screens on handheld PCs, typically to hide a keyboard under.
Anbernic is a company who makes emulation handhelds often running Android, so they decided to hop onto the trend and make an Android device where the controls are under a sliding display.
I have a feeling they were just following the hypetrain in china and created a psuedo xperia play without really thinking about it.
Examples of competing Windows handhelds:
For some reason, chinese companies currently follow a trend of putting sliding screens on handheld PCs, typically to hide a keyboard under.
Anbernic is a company who makes emulation handhelds often running Android, so they decided to hop onto the trend and make an Android device where the controls are under a sliding display.
I have a feeling they were just following the hypetrain in china and created a psuedo xperia play without really thinking about it.
Examples of competing Windows handhelds:
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@vala But fuck it. I've been asking for a new Xperia Play for ages.
Stick a modem in it and get rid of the chinese spyware, I'd take it. I don't care if it means I'll have to carry around a brick in my jacket, I'd daily drive that phone.
Stick a modem in it and get rid of the chinese spyware, I'd take it. I don't care if it means I'll have to carry around a brick in my jacket, I'd daily drive that phone.
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@quad damn, never knew that was a laptop shape. the xperia play was rad tho
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@vala
>never knew that was a laptop shape
They're called UMPCs. They've been around for ages but only gained mainstream popularity after the Steam Deck.
In fact the GPD Win 3 in the first picture I sent earlier not only pre-dates the Steam Deck, its design is also a direct homage to the Sony Vaio UX line of UMPCs from 2006. (See attached picture of Vaio UX). So this form factor is far from new.
Anbernic makes cheap emulation handhelds, and they just happened to make one with a sliding gamepad which runs Android, like the Xperia Play.
>never knew that was a laptop shape
They're called UMPCs. They've been around for ages but only gained mainstream popularity after the Steam Deck.
In fact the GPD Win 3 in the first picture I sent earlier not only pre-dates the Steam Deck, its design is also a direct homage to the Sony Vaio UX line of UMPCs from 2006. (See attached picture of Vaio UX). So this form factor is far from new.
Anbernic makes cheap emulation handhelds, and they just happened to make one with a sliding gamepad which runs Android, like the Xperia Play.
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Gay, loud and annoying ! 
hj@shigusegubu.club
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Gay, loud and annoying !
hj@shigusegubu.club
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cell classic
cell@shitposter.world
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Gay, loud and annoying !
hj@shigusegubu.club
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@quad I never went for the Xperia Play, but I had something more cursed: the Xperia Mini Pro.
Very small, but also very thicc because of the sliding keyboard.
And I used that keyboard to type all the time, but also as a “gamepad”.
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