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TL;DR

• Retroid has announced two handhelds, the Pocket G2 and the Pocket 6.
• The former is the first device with a Snapdragon G2 Gen 2 SoC, with the latter sporting a G2 Gen 2.
• The Pocket G2 launches soon at $199 for the first two weeks, with the Pocket 6 launching at a later date.

There has been a flurry of new Android gaming handheld releases over the past few months, and today, Retroid finally joined the action. The company announced its highly anticipated follow-up to the Retriod Pocket 5, as well as a surprising new handheld that might end up being a better buy.

The surprise handheld here is the Pocket G2, which is the first gaming handheld to ship with Qualcomm’s mid-range Snapdragon G2 Gen 2 chipset. Designed specifically for gaming handhelds, it should have more power and better sustained performance than Retroid’s previous flagship. The company claims it’s “almost 2x faster than the Retroid Pocket 5,” which has the aging Snapdragon 865.




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