Screens? Where this new AMD-powered handheld PC is going we don't need screens. Just silly Cyberpunk glasses

Tecno may well be a brand you've never heard of but if its newly launched Pocket Go runs as good as it looks, then there'll be a completely new segment for the portable gaming market. Because where every handheld PC you can buy right now has a built-in screen, this one abandons it for a set of AR glasses.

Admittedly the launch itself (via Videocardz) is somewhat light on details but the product itself does actually exist, as Tecno has been promoting it at the MWC event in Barcelona. That's all about the mobile phone industry, which is Tecno's primary sector and has been for a long time. But now it wants a slice of the expanding handheld PC market with its Pocket Go.

At first glance, it appears to be a very chunky controller with some AR glasses plugged into it, via a standard USB Type-C cable. But inside the hand unit, there's an AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS processor, 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD. That APU sports eight cores, 16 threads, a max power of 35 W, and a Radeon 780M integrated GPU. It's basically the same chip as the 7840U that powers the likes of the Ayaneo Air 1S.

I'm not entirely sold on the controller's design: The right thumbstick looks a little too close to the buttons and as most APUs in handheld PCs tend to get a bit toasty, your mitts are likely to get quite warm too. That's assuming the cooling system is similar to those that the competition uses but the Pocket Go could be using something a lot beefier. However, that would only make it heavier and noisier.

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