It probably hasn’t escaped your notice, but it’s the big trend for portable consoles. Everyone gets involved and it never stops. A new competitor enters the arena. With AMD equipment.
Tecno Mobile makes a remarkable entry into the world of gaming with its new wearable augmented reality (AR) device, the Pocket Go, which will be unveiled at MWC 2024. This unique device does not have a traditional screen, but relies on AR glasses equipped with two 0.71-inch OLED microdisplays. These innovative glasses connect to the controller via a standard USB Type-C cable, enabling an immersive experience in AR games. All with AMD hardware.
A portable console, but…AR
What is Tecno Mobile? In fact, it is a relatively unknown manufacturer in France, but belongs to the Chinese group Transsion, which is still the fifth largest smartphone seller in the world. The manufacturer is mainly represented in Southeast Asia and Africa, but has no sales in Europe. Based on this premise, its technological novelty in augmented reality is fascinating.
Tecno Mobile’s Pocket Go is characterized by the integration of the AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS APU, a powerful chip with 8 Zen 4 cores, 16 threads and a frequency of up to 5.1 GHz. The TDP of this chip can be configured between 20 and 30W, with 16MB of L3 cache, ensuring a smooth and responsive gaming experience. In addition, this APU integrates the RDNA 3-based Radeon 780M iGPU with 12 processing units operating at 2700 MHz, thus offering quite good gaming performance.
On the hardware side, as wccftech reports, the controller that houses the brains of the device is slightly larger than normal to accommodate the APU. It is equipped with standard buttons, joysticks and triggers, meeting the usual expectations of gamers. The Pocket Go also benefits from 16GB of LPDDR5 memory and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, ensuring optimal storage and loading speeds for games.
AMD hardware
Tecno Mobile’s AR console is powered by a 50Wh battery, allowing the AR glasses to produce projections of up to 215 degrees at a distance of 6 meters, promising an immersive gaming experience anywhere. Although details on the Pocket Go’s pricing and release date have not yet been announced, this device is already positioning itself as a promising innovation in the portable AR gaming landscape. The product will be launched on the market within a few months, as our colleagues at report Pay. Otherwise there is radio silence. For example, no prices are known.
YouTuber Gadget Pilipinas got his hands on the whole thing during the MWC 2024 show and it’s quite fascinating:
