Relive the PDA glory days with this 5.5″ Windows 11 pocket PC

WTF?! Handheld gaming PCs and different current merchandise have demonstrated how small gadgets operating full-blown Home windows can change into. Gloture has taken issues additional with a Home windows 11 PC that appears and feels extra like a smartphone. Regardless of its weak specs, some stunning capabilities might make it helpful in particular conditions.

Japanese firm Gloture now provides a tool known as the NanoPC. It has a 5.5-inch display screen, runs Home windows 11 Professional, and simply suits in most pockets. The worth shouldn’t be too offputting at 84,700 yen ($585). Its measurement resembles a smartphone however is designed extra as a PDA than a telephone. After all, that should not cease customers from putting in messaging and VoIP apps.

Whereas most handheld gaming PCs just like the Steam Deck or Asus ROG Ally run on AMD APUs, Gloture’s NanoPC contains a 2.7GHz Intel Celeron J4125 with UHD 600 graphics. The gadget packs a 2500mAh battery, 8 GB of LPDDR4 RAM, and 128 GB of eMMC storage. With a display screen decision of solely 1280 x 720, it actually is not meant to supply a media-playing expertise aggressive with high-end telephones or tablets.

The place the NanoPC earns its preserve is in connectivity. It consists of two HDMI ports, 4 USB 3.0 ports, a USB-C port, a gigabit ethernet port, and a microSD card slot. That is plenty of bodily connection choices for a tool this small. It additionally helps WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2.

All these ports might make the NanoPC a useful ultraportable workstation in settings the place your major PCs are unavailable. The HDMI connections can concurrently preserve two 4K 60Hz outputs which, along with a Bluetooth or USB keyboard and mouse, might create a good multi-monitor setup wherever you may want one.

Most individuals are most likely effective utilizing smartphones and tablets in conditions involving gadgets this small. So the NanoPC actually will not exchange them. Nonetheless, Home windows does give it extra seamless compatibility with desktops and laptops for duties the place interoperability is a precedence. A product like this will possible fill many edge circumstances the place an iOS or Android gadget both lacks the software program to meet a job or necessitates an additional step {that a} moveable Home windows system would not.

Sadly, Gloture’s retailer Rakuten would not have worldwide delivery. So other than making a private go to or discovering one on eBay or elsewhere, a NanoPC is fairly arduous to get outdoors of Japan.