I am not saying this will happen with AYANEO products, but it could, this issue is regarding fulfilling orders and launching new products before even shipping orders of their “older” devices.įor example the AYN Odin are just shipping customers orders that they placed a year ago and the Analogue Pocket has delays of almost a year. It’s too early for me to tell, but I have to mention it when I review these products because lately the handheld industry is having some problems. Some of you watching may be happy with a 2-hour battery life, but I am not and even though currently that is the only issue I’m facing, there could be issues outside of the handheld that customers can’t control. Many say the screen is too small, but I think it’s just right, anything bigger and I don’t think you can class it as portable, the Steam Deck to me personally, isn’t portable, but this is. It’s perfectly sized, it packs power that I haven’t tested before in a handheld and the AYANEO experience from the unboxing to the built in launcher is undoubtedly premium It’s a real shame, because the AYANEO Air was close to being one of my favourite handhelds of the year. This short gaming experience is what bottlenecks the whole device, I shouldn’t be consciously worrying about what battery life I am at, I should be immersed in the games, but everytime I play on the device I worry, and that isn’t a fun experience. The Pro version however did last slightly longer, and that’s because it has a bit more battery capacity, I was pulling just over two hours out of it before it needed juice. Smooth 1080p gaming with AAA games is where it can’t go, that’s its limits. Games like Fortnite will run fine too, the same goes for 2D platformers or older less power consuming PC games, this will absolutely crush it. I then tried a couple of more strenuous games, and got to a point where the base model was at its limit, and that was Sea of Thieves, it was capped at around 20FPS the same goes for Forza Horizon 5, i found low frame rates, and at times even error messages.īut the Pro version has slightly more power, allowing you to play most AAA games beyond 720p 30FPS, in fact on Forza Horizon 5 it was running happily at 720p well beyond 30FPS for example, proving that the Pro version can play AAA games well, on the go. It will require some minor tweaking across different games, but that’s easy to do. Yes, low settings may not be the best, but it goes to show you that you can still play some of your favourite PC games on the go without any hiccups on the base model.ĪYANEO has suggested most AAA games can run at 720p 30fps on the base model, and from testing, I agree with them on this. It was a sense of “wow, handhelds are really going places”. I started with a bunch of Halo games, including Halo Reach which ran very well at low settings on the base model, to a point where it’s the most fun I have had on a handheld this year. Straight out of the box I tried testing this with some larger PC games.
Now let’s talk about performance, because I was blown away with what this can do. So much so that they sent us a keyboard to use when setting it up, and that’s the downfall with it being so small, the screen is so tiny that it’s nearly impossible to use with just the touchscreen, so id almost say it’s mandatory to use it with a keyboard when setting it up. The whole aesthetic of the AYANEO Air is small, but that’s what makes it such a cute, portable device, and i hate to say it, but this is probably the most comfortable handheld PC i have ever played on, it makes the Steam Deck look and feel like i am playing with King Kong’s big toe.īut with beauty comes the beast, and because it uses Windows 11, it’s an absolute pain in the backside to navigate. While I am on the subject of buttons I need to bring up the small action buttons, at first I didn’t like them, they’re noticeably smaller than traditional handhelds, but I grew to fall in love with them, the same goes with the lovely analogue sticks that are made with hull sensing technology that basically stops drift, oh and they light up! How adorable. The base model is 18mm thin at the middle, which is incredibly thin for something this powerful, the pro model comes in at 21.6mm at the middle, again, still very thin, impressively thin in fact.
The pro is slightly more powerful and slightly thicker featuring a Ryzen 7 5825U, 16GB’s RAM and a large 10,000MAH battery capacity. The base Air features a 2.3ghz Ryzen 5 5560U Processor, 16GB’s RAM, 512GB of internal storage, a stunning 5.5” AMOLED 1080P display and a 7350MAH battery capacity. I have the base model and the pro model in for this review.
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