AYANEO Pocket Play is the SONY Xperia series spiritual successor
AYANEO has shared more details about the Pocket Play, a gaming phone with a side-slide mechanism that hides a full controller under the screen. The company says the phone will use a 6.8-inch OLED panel (2400 × 1080) with a 165Hz refresh rate.
The slide-out section includes a D-pad, ABXY buttons, and shoulder triggers. The layout also uses dual touchpads instead of physical analog sticks, which keeps the controller flat enough to sit behind the display when closed.
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For the SoC, AYANEO confirmed MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300. MediaTek lists a 4× Cortex-X4 + 4× Cortex-A720 CPU setup for the chip. AYANEO has not published a full spec sheet yet. Items like RAM and storage options, battery capacity, cooling design, and camera specs are still unconfirmed.
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Renders shared so far show black and white versions, dual rear cameras, and USB-C. The images also suggest a bezel selfie camera, which avoids a hole-punch cutout in the display area.
AYANEO is collecting followers ahead of a Kickstarter launch, but the campaign date and pricing have not been announced.
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