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I do not find out about you, however I’m beginning to suppose 2025 could be the 12 months of the hand-held gaming PC. This lately teased OneXPlayer G1 handheld with a removeable keyboard is an efficient signal of issues to return, anyhow.
We’ll be embarking totally into the second technology of handheld tech in 2025, and meaning corporations can hopefully begin experimenting a bit extra now they have a extra mature basis on which to take action.
We’re definitely seeing such experimentation from OneXPlayer’s newest announcement. It “combines a smooth, compact design with a removable keyboard and built-in controls for final versatility”.
It additionally comes with the identical HX 370 processor that you will discover within the top-end model of the brand new OneXFly F1 Pro which our Dave’s been testing. He’s been genuinely impressed with the extent of efficiency you will get out of it at 1080p, particularly with the assistance of FSR 3 and body gen.
But if you wish to hear about all that you could anticipate Dave’s assessment. With this OneXPlayer G1, the principle factor is that laptop computer/handheld design. It will be onerous to make out within the YouTube video—it is a teaser that truly teases—however on its Indiegogo web page issues are laid out very clearly.
It’s a GPD-looking factor, reminding me of the GPD Win Max 2 in form and stature, at the very least—its display screen is a bit smaller than the Max 2, however considerably larger than the Mini. The distinction is, the G1 has a removable keyboard, that means you possibly can “change seamlessly between laptop computer, console, and pill modes for any process.”
Once that keyboard (and trackpad) is peeled, you have got entry to a controller format, together with what appears to be a smaller contact keyboard beneath, in the identical form of cut up format because the GPD.
This is precisely the form of experimentation I wish to see within the handheld sphere, now that many handhelds have nailed the fundamentals. New type components are all the time enjoyable.
We’ve already seen some Acer experimenting similarly with its Project DualPlay idea. Except that is extra decidedly a laptop computer—it simply has a pop-out gamepad on the underside of the trackpad. And we have seen dual-screen innovation within the type of the Ayaneo Flip DS, which our Jacob Ridley actually loves.
So yeah, I’m excited not only for this specific handheld, if and with regards to market, however for what sorts of mainstream type issue changes it would result in within the handheld market usually. And to be sincere, it is in all probability finest I do not get my sights honed in on the OneXPlayer G1 specifically, given it will in all probability be extremely costly. That is, assuming the F1 Pro is something to go by.
