Miyoo A30 Mini Retro Handheld Is Coming This April
Miyoo has officially announced its next pocketable device, shipping this spring.
Popular retro handheld maker Miyoo has finally unveiled its next device: the Miyoo A30. This is one that has been rumored for a good long time now, first leaked via a patent filing in July 2022 (as “Miyoo 282”). So it’s great to finally see the device receive a formal announcement and images.
Miyoo’s A30 is a pocket-sized handheld in a horizontal form factor. The size and the look are reminiscent of the Game Boy Micro, first released by Nintendo in Japan in 2005. But Miyoo’s device has four buttons, a single analog stick under the D-pad, and just about the biggest screen they can fit on this little device.
Size-wise it looks close to Anbernic’s RG300X, released in 2021. Also inspired by the GB Micro, that device measures 137 mm x 69 mm and is 20 mm (2 centimeters) thick. The RG300X has a 3-inch screen, and weighs just over 150 grams.
The Miyoo Mini Stock Alerts Twitter account said that the A30 will start shipping in April — so we’ll be watching for pre-orders to start in the next few weeks.
The A30 will launch with four color options: red and gold (modeled after the original Famicom controller), gray, black with white highlights, and what looks like black with light gray highlights. The renders show inline shoulder buttons on the top, as well as power and volume buttons and a USB-C port (probably for charging rather than video output). The bottom of the device shows a single microSD card slot.
Miyoo also confirmed (via Twitter) that the A30 will release ahead of the Miyoo Flip, its other hotly anticipated pocket handheld.
Miyoo hasn’t revealed the pricing or the full specs for the device yet — including that all-important system-on-chip and CPU. That will tell us how powerful the device will be and what kind of emulation we can expect.
Our guess is that this may be a horizontal equivalent to the popular Miyoo Mini and Miyoo Mini Plus (rather than a performance upgrade), both of which are rocking a SigmaStar SSD202D. That’s enough power for 8-bit and 16-bit systems including PS1, SNES, Game Boy Advance, and older systems. Some users have also had limited success playing some lighter Nintendo DS titles on the current Miyoo devices.
We’ll be watching this one closely and will let you know when the Miyoo A30 goes up for pre-order.
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