Ayaneo’s dual-screen Android handheld is its next modernized Nintendo DS

The earliest backers of Ayaneo’s Indiegogo run tin preorder the Pocket DS astatine a discount. | Image: Ayaneo

First announced conscionable a fewer weeks ago successful precocious July, the Ayaneo Pocket DS dual-screen handheld is now disposable for preorder done Indiegogo starting astatine $519 but discounted to $399 for the earliest backers. Shipping is expected to commencement arsenic aboriginal arsenic October 2025. Although the institution is concurrently running different Indiegogo campaign for a similar dual-screen handheld called the Flip 1S, that instrumentality features much almighty specs, runs Windows 11, and starts astatine $1,279 with discounts, portion the little costly Pocket DS runs Android 13.

There are presently galore handhelds that replicate the plan and functionality of Nintendo’s iconic portables, including the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance, but fewer tin decently recreate the Nintendo DS experience, which is inactive Nintendo’s best-selling console of each time. The caller Pocket DS perchance fits that measure with a 7-inch, 16:9, 1080P OLED folding apical surface paired with a smaller 5-inch, 4:3, 1,024×768 LCD show connected the handheld itself.

It volition beryllium powered by a precise susceptible Snapdragon G3x Gen 2 processor, but we don’t yet cognize what the Pocket DS’ emulation capabilities volition be. The entry-level exemplary features 8GB of RAM and 128GB of retention (expandable done a microSD paper slot), but the Pocket DS tin beryllium configured with up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, pushing its terms to $759, oregon $639 with aboriginal backer discounts.

The handheld besides features a brace of anti-drift TMR joysticks, Hall effect triggers with sensitivity adjustments, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, gyroscopic controls, a fingerprint scanning powerfulness button, and an 8,000mAh battery. Ayaneo hasn’t revealed the handheld’s existent artillery life, but it volition connection aggregate show modes and the quality to crook disconnected the 2nd surface for those trying to max retired their playtime.