AYANEO’s Xperia Play-like phone isn’t out yet, but someone already went hands-on

AYANEO is engaged on its first phone, known as the Pocket Play. We’ve already seen pictures of the slider-based gaming phone, together with official hands-on footage. Nevertheless, an enterprising outlet went hands-on with the machine on the Computex expo final week.

PCWorld discovered the AYANEO Pocket Play on the Computex present flooring (h/t: r/sbcgaming) and filmed a hands-on video within the course of. Verify out the clip beneath.

The video doesn’t actually present us something we haven’t seen earlier than, as earlier movies and pictures already confirmed the machine from quite a lot of angles. Nonetheless, we nonetheless get an in depth take a look at the Xperia Play-style slide-out gamepad, together with a more in-depth peek on the twin trackpads and different inputs. PC World‘s video additionally reiterates the thick design, which is admittedly nonetheless higher than lugging round a phone and controller. The host additionally laments the dearth of front-firing audio system regardless of the sizable display bezels.

The outlet claims that the phone will solely be obtainable in China. Nevertheless, AYANEO is gearing up for a Kickstarter marketing campaign, so it’ll undoubtedly be transport outdoors China. Simply don’t count on to get the phone by way of your service or bodily retailers.

In a fairly fascinating flip of occasions, the outlet explains that AYANEO wasn’t really at Computex. As an alternative, the Pocket Play was displayed at cellular producer AMobile’s stand, as they’re apparently making the machine for AYANEO.

By way of confirmed specs, the Pocket Play has a MediaTek Dimensity 9300 processor and a 6.8-inch 165Hz OLED panel. There’s nonetheless no phrase on battery capability, charging velocity, storage, RAM, and different particulars. There’s additionally no phrase on a launch date or pricing simply but. Our fingers are crossed that the RAM disaster doesn’t kill this machine earlier than its launch.