GPD XD Plus [Official distributor,Latest HW & Most Stable Update] Foldable Handheld Game Consoles 5″ Touchscreen, Android 7.0 Fast Mediatek MT8176 Hexa-core 2.1GHz CPU, 4GB RAM/32GB ROM

Note my first review has vanished.Good – Plays a load of items. Great battery life and screen.Bad – Mine arrived clearly as a used/returned product. Missing the usb cable in the box and the unit itself was dirty and covered in fingerprints. I didn’t return it as after a good cleaning it looked good as new.Second major issue is the build quality. The d-pad is terrible once again give you inputs you don’t want. On my unit the dpad even starts to squeak…. odd I know.After 6 months with the unit the plastic at the screen hinge is cracking and causes the screen to not close properly. This makes is so the screen flops around and doesn’t shut off half the time when i close the unit.Overall – internals are great but the case itself is a huge failure. I own an original Win GPD and my case 2 years on with that unit is still perfect so I wonder how they got this one so wrong.

My boyfriend has replaced me with this gaming device. Okay, maybe a little less dramatic, because the thing can’t feed him. I guess he still needs me for that. But on a serious note, it is always in his pocket. He has several handheld gaming options and this is his go to. If you are on the fence, just buy it. It is good quality, has a decent weight and size to it, the buttons and joysticks are nice. 5 stars- Would Recommend.

This thing kicks some major a**. Ok, it’s not really turn key. It works out of the box but you get the most out of it by installing different emulators. At 1st it was a bit confusing. Once I got the hang of how it works you’re good to go. I am using it with retroarch, mupen64plus fz, reicast, epsx and ppsspp to cover all the bases. For a front end I am using arc browser. Yea, it was a pain the but to install and configure, it took a week and was extremely confusing to do, there are lots of online tutorials and forums that give solid advice on how to do this. Dude this thing kicks major ass. It runs almost everything I want smoothly.

Product itself is solid, thus far in my own testing. The software environment is a little odd to get used to. For example there are three different flavors of SNES Emulators out of the box, and they all have different input configurations, the most obvious choice also consequently being the worst (imagine A and X being reversed with B and Y while trying to play Super Nintendo games …). They were all in English, though, in case you’re looking this product up after seeing Linus Tech Tips’ product review.However, the handheld runs Android 7, has Play Store and all my important purchased apps from there available to download, has very responsive controls, and has a surprisingly great LCD panel (you expect moving to a screen with less than half the resolution and easily 1/2″ less diagonal size to be awful; it really isn’t).Most of all, Since Valve released their Steam Link APK and since Moonlight (for nVidia Gamestreaming) is a several-years-mature app, I’ve been having a blast playing games (with 1440p resolution on the host machine) from my PC all day today, when at home. Next step is experimenting with VPN’ing so that I can do the GRID-gaming that nVidia hosts, instead with my own machine at home, but that probably won’t be as pleasant.In short, the 2nd-gen refresh of the GPD XD+ overcomes the most glaring issues with the original product, the ecosystem is there, this hardware is formidable and more than enough for playing PUBG mobile (you *do* have to get creative with input schemes at times but even the vehicle-control with thumbstick totally worked!). Note that I bought this product and wasn’t given any review hardware or anything. I wanted to get the GPD Win but I’m too cheap and I knew I just wanted to stream my heavier games from a desktop anyways.In summary, EXCELLENT for Steam In-Home Streaming (AAAAND the new Steam Link app) or for nVidia GameSteam over Moonlight APK. Also good for most Emulators up to the fifth/sixth gen consoles. Migrating to a MediaTek SOC and doubling the ram/storage yields a snappy system with all-day battery life (I unplugged this at around 8am today and the battery was still at about 14% when I plugged it in after 8pm, using it heavily but sporadically throughout the day. 6000MaH is roughly 2x the battery capacity of a Samsung Galaxy S7 phone, for context).Only real complaints would be (a ) “suuuuper clicky shoulder buttons with non-analog “triggers” and “no camera and no Google Assistant support” which I can totally live with, and (b ) “It’s not a GPD Win” which you can tell by it being 2/3 as expensive (as 1st Gen Win), or 1/4 as expensive (as 2nd Gen Win).Edit: In the few weeks I’ve owned this thing, I’ve fallen in love with it. I now understand the keymapper button which allows you to bind touch controls to the physical buttons, thus making me far more formiddable in PUBG mobile. I’m loving the ability to pause any singleplayer title by closing the lid and resuming later, which means this device has been permanently *with* me for every long shopping outing, every line I’ve waited through, every slow phone call, and it’s even helped me out of a jam or two at work.Note: as device has no camera, many app’s will not want to download from play-store but if you stuff the APK’s in dropbox or other storage you can totally sideload them without issue into the GPD XD+ and this has been helpful for grabbing a few productivity apps (like Google Authenticator).I feel like I really consolidate a lot of my efforts with this device. It has no business playing PC games from my home desktop, over-the-internet, as well as it does.

Very satisfied, more so after installing Cleanrom instead of the stock firmware the device ships with.Things I tested that worked well (on the GPD XD Plus):* The control pad and buttons compare favorably to a 3DS.* The screen is sharp and responsive.* The audio compares well with internal audio from any other handheld device, and supports stereo just fine.* HDMI output also works well, though my TV had some noticeable buffer delays at 1080p 60hz that might not be the device’s fault.* USB screen sharing works well, as tested with Vysor for both video and audio.I also tested Dolphin, Mupen64 Plus, Retroarch with several different cores, and a couple other software packages on the device without issue. The default installed versions were hacky and broken in some ways, however, so they’re worth reinstalling with or without a flash to Cleanrom.One big disclaimer: the default OS flashed onto the device lowers the device’s clockspeed and is broken in several meaningful ways. It also includes games that I’m pretty sure the device manufacturer does not have licenses for, so flashing the device is a good idea if you do not have legal licenses to these games.For these reasons and more, it’s worth the upgrade to Cleanrom, after which you can install whatever you’d like. I have minimal Android technical experience, but I found this process relatively easy and painless from GPD Central, which can be searched outside the scope of this review. After the Cleanrom installation, the few crashes in software that I experienced were resolved.Overall, strongly recommend if you, like me, were looking for a good portable device to play older games from your collection and to try playing randomizers for. Since the device also has wifi and can run its own web browser and application software, the device is perfect for playing new seeds on the go AND streaming them — which is exactly what I bought it for.