This dual-screen gaming handheld could be the ultimate Android powered portable

The Ayaneo Pocket DS has been revealed as the world’s first dual-screen Android powered gaming handheld, and it’s gorgeous.

This gaming handheld is mainly made for retro game emulation and, as the name suggests, is inspired by the Nintendo 3DS. It comes therefore with two screens and a clamshell design. It also packs in some seriously premium specs.

Up top you have a 7-inch 1080p OLED display clocking 165Hz, ideal for main screen gaming. Below that is a 5-inch 1024 x 768 4:3 touchscreen display, better suited to data screens, menus, control systems and the like. Go inside and it gets even more impressive.

Powering this Ayaneo is a Qualcomm Snapdragon G3x Gen 2 processor backed by a plentiful 16GB of RAM, plus 1TB of UFS 4.0 storage. All that grunt is backed by a hefty 8,000mAh battery that can be fast-charged back to full rapidly.

The build looks ergonomic and responsive with Linear Hall-effect triggers round the back and TMR joysticks in front. Plus there’s a six-axis gyroscope onboard for movement reactiveness, which plenty of games utilise well.

The only major downside is that this is running the three-year-old Android 13 OS, at launch anyway. That shouldn’t really affect its retro gaming prowess though, as most emulators continue to support it (might even run better, to be honest).