This Nintendo Switch clone runs Ubuntu, and is half the price
Odroid-Go Super resembles the Nintendo Switch Lite, but costs less than half the price
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There’s a potential new player in the handheld video games console device thanks to a new release from Hardkernel.
The South Korean hardware vendor, known for its Odroid series of single board computers (SBC) has shared details about its latest flagship handheld device powered byUbuntu.
TheOdroid-Go Super (OGS)is the third rendition of the popular Odroid-Go series of handheld devices that features a bigger screen, a bigger battery, and improved wireless capabilities over its predecessors. Designed primarily as a portable gaming console, the device runsUbuntu 20.04to emulate retro gaming consoles fromSony, Nintendo, Atari, Sega, and NEC.
Bigger and better
OGS features a bigger five-inch, 854x480 pixel LCD display, with game controllers on the left and right sides and buttons along the top edge.
Odroid-Go devices have historically resembled handhelds from Nintendo, and the OGS looks a lot like a Nintendo Switch Lite. The one major difference though is that at $80, the OGS costs less than half the price of the Nintendo device it resembles.
According to reports, the device is built around a 1.3 GHz Rockchip RK3326 quad-coreARMCortex-A35 processor with the ARM Mali-G31 MP2 GPU and 1GB of DDR3L memory. OGS is designed to use a microSD card for storage, and includes a mono speaker, 3.5mm headphone jack, USB 2.0 host port, and a 4000 mAh battery.
It’s important to note that the Odroid-Go devices can be tweaked to run custom images, and Hardkernel will in fact ship several pre-production samples to their community of developers early next week.
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However, unlike the previous Odroid-Go devices that were offered as DIY kits, the final OGS devices will ship pre-assembled when they go on sale at the end of January 2021.
Via:CNX-Software
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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