The Pocket S is a handheld device that has been in development for some time now, and it's finally starting to see the light of day. The creators have been open with their 3DS on Android efforts, but with the addition of Vulcan, they think they can push even older chipsets to perform better. This is especially true for PS2 games, which are notoriously difficult to emulate.

One of the features that sets the Pocket S apart from other handheld devices is its ability to run PS2 games at 3x resolution. The creators have used the Nether SX2 patch to enable this, and it's amazing to see how well it performs. Games like God of War 2 are running smoothly at 3x, with no dips in performance even when adding effects and particles to the screen. This is thanks in part to the powerful GPU provided by the Snapdragon Gaming Platform.

The Pocket S also features a 12GB RAM model with 128GB of internal storage. While this may seem like a lot, it's actually plenty for most Android devices. However, if there's one thing that could bring down this device, it's the price. The creators will need to keep the price under other powerful x86-powered handhelds in order to compete. For now, though, the Pocket S is shaping up to be a great option for those looking for an Android device with excellent emulation capabilities.

One of the standout features of the Pocket S is its ability to register as an Xbox One controller. This makes it easy to pick up and play games without having to do any mapping or adjustments. The creators have already tested this out with several emulators, including Vulcan and OpenG, and found that they all picked it up automatically. It's a great feature that sets the Pocket S apart from other handheld devices.

The screen on the Pocket S is also worth mentioning. It's capable of putting out great performance right out of the box, without needing any additional tweaks or adjustments. This makes it an excellent option for those looking for a device with a high-quality display.

Overall, the Pocket S is shaping up to be a fantastic handheld device that's perfect for emulation and Android gaming. With its powerful GPU, large RAM, and ability to register as an Xbox One controller, it's going to be a popular choice among gamers and Android enthusiasts alike. As the creators continue to develop and refine this device, we can expect to see even more impressive performance and features.

Battery life is also something that the creators are eager to test out with this device. However, due to early software development, they haven't been able to run any benchmarks yet. But as soon as they clear them for public use, they will make sure to show off the results in a future video.

As for the price point of the Pocket S, it's still unclear when and if we'll see an official Indiegogo launch. The creators will need to keep the price competitive with other powerful handheld devices while also ensuring that they can deliver on their promises. But as soon as we know more about pricing and availability, we'll be sure to let you know.

In conclusion, the Pocket S is a device that's shaping up to be a real showstopper in the world of Android gaming and emulation. With its powerful GPU, large RAM, and ability to register as an Xbox One controller, it's going to be a popular choice among gamers and enthusiasts alike. We can't wait to see what this device has in store for us when it finally launches.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at some emulation on the upcoming ion Neo pocket s now if you're not familiar with this new handheld from iono that's totally fine I'll give you a quick rundown on everything that got going into this device but like I mentioned we're definitely going to be showing off some emulation in this video and I have created one other kind of a first look video the unit they sent over is a early protoype it's totally not finished yet but it's actually really polished for the way it is software has been continuous updated since I've had this in my possession and I've noticed an increase in performance just from their OTA updates that they've been throwing out a lot of different Power profile tweaks and things like that because after all this is using a newer arm s so the Qualcomm Snapdragon g3x gen2 specifically designed for gaming handhelds this will be the first one to market with the g3x Gen 2 and in my original first look video we did test out a bunch of Android games some high-end Android games in fact and this chip will definitely handle anything that's on Google play right now I mean you want to do some ginch impact highest settings 60fps not a problem it is actively cooled which means it does have a fan and they've created a new Dragon Tamer cooling system specifically for the Snapdragon g3x Gen 2 io's done a pretty good job here and this chip will do up to 15 watts it really does put down some amazing performance for Native Android gaming and emulation and real quick just give you a look they are going to be offering two different colors we've got a white and a black it's got that snap dragon g3x Gen 2 Gaming platform it's an 8 core cryo CPU and the highest in cores will do up to 3.36 GHz along with the new adreno a32 GPU which does 1 GHz you can get this with up to 16 GB of RAM and 1 terabyte of storage they're also going to be offering some lower-end variants absolutely beautiful bezeless full display it's a 1440p IPS mirror screen CNC all the way around the edges it does have Hall based analog sticks and Hall based triggers around back they're not exactly sure on the overall weight by the time this is fully fleshed out but it's pretty light and it's only 14 mm thick price has not been disclosed even to me just yet and I'm really waiting on that that's really going to make her break this device but you can definitely upgrade the storage it's got a Micro SD card slot and obviously it's running Android since we've got that Snapdragon arm so but now it's time to jump into some emulation and see how this thing performs and you know when it comes to the lower-end stuff NES s NES GBA DS even N64 you're not going to have a problem even Sega Saturn using something like yasi and shirou runs really well I went through and tested a few games here and there not bad at all I also wanted to test out some atomas wave and Naomi I'm using flycast here really good performance and of course when it comes to Dreamcast you could always go with flycast or you could go with redream and with this I mean you can totally Max it out you can go up to 4K resolution with this chipset and the screen here is 144 40p so it does look really good and especially when you're upscaling something like PSP here's the stain alone version of PPSSPP Vulcan back in 5x resolution everything that I tested ran at full speed here and we could go higher with that resolution if we wanted to but then you know you're just pushing more power burning more battery life and this is about as good as it's going to look on this display given that it is 1440p and it does look amazing it'll even handle the harder to emulate games like Ghost of Sparta chain of Olympus not a problem here at 5x with that Vulcan back in and that new a32 GPU is really what allows us to kind of upscale all of these emulators it's running at up to 1 GHz in the pocket s and you can really see the difference when it comes down to graphical Fidelity in Native Android games and even emulation moving over to some GameCube using the Dolphin Emulator openg G everything that I tested I just went at 1080p with it so this is 3x resolution with the official doph build you could go up to 4X with a lot of this stuff some of the harder to run games like Rogue Squadron just won't do up to 4X yet on any Android device that I've ever tested but most of these games will I just left it right there at 1080p because I think it's a nice sweet spot for battery life and just how good it looks on this screen personally I didn't even go in and test Vulcan with the Dolphin Emulator because even the developers of the Dolphin Emulator state that on Snapdragon open GL is really the best performance you're going to get out of it and everything that I thrown at this so far has run at full speed 3x resolution with openg GL now I'm sure there's some GameCube games that will still struggle on this chipset that's kind of how the whole uh GameCube ecosystem with dolphin on Android is right now there's some games that just aren't going to perform well on an arm chip like the Need for Speed series a lot of those games just kind of all over the place but even Rogue Squadron 2 runs at 60 FPS upscale to 1080p on the Ino pocket s I also wanted to test out some 3DS emulation using Citra I'm using a development build right now or a nightly build 3x resolution and we do have access to the Vulcan back again in the past we were kind of stuck with openg on Android with 3DS but now that we have access to Vulcan even lower in chips will be able to run some of these games at 1 a and personally I'd like to go back to some older chips and test this new build out with Vulcan this is something I've been waiting on for a couple years now it's always been open with 3DS on Android but now that we have access to Vulcan I think some of those older chipsets are going to perform much better and finally we've got some PS2 using the nether sx2 patch 3x resolution and with these games I did swap between openg and Vulcan some games just perform better with Vulcan some work better with openg G but for the most part PS2 is fully playable on the pocket s and I've actually been able to take some of the harder to emulate games up to 3.5 a I just left it at 3x here but in my original first look video I did show some games off running at 3.5x like Gran Turismo 3 and even ratet and clang those games ran amazingly at 3.5 and I'm sure some easier to emulate games like Crash Bandicoot could go up if you wanted it to but we're already right there almost at the full resolution this screen does support out of the box already this is pretty awesome and of course you know we've been using ether sx2 for a while unfortunately it did get ads recently so there is a patch out there known as nether sx2 which allows you to kind of patch all of that out plus they add some new controller profiles which do come in handy for different devices this is one of those I didn't have to do anything to the overall control layout on the pocket s registers in Android as an Xbox One controller so all of the games all of the emulators that I've been able to test here have just kind of picked it up automatically and I didn't have to do any kind of mapping and having that more powerful GPU with the Snapdragon gaming platform really does help out with upscaling PS2 here's God of War 2 we're at 3x and you can see I mean we're at a constant 60 even with all of those effects and particles on screen usually we kind of dip on down even on some higher end Snapdragon chips out there right now but with this it's steady through at 3x overall the pocket s has been handling emulation and Native Android gaming like a boss and I kind of suspected it would given the chipset we have here now really what's going to make her break this device is going to be the the price that iono comes out of the door at of course they will be offering a few different variants this one here is a 12 GB model with 128 GB of internal storage it's not even their highest in 16 gig 1 tbte unit and when it comes to emulation on Android having a little extra Ram is great but I do think that 12 gigs is going to be plenty for an Android device for basically everything we want to throw at this now if there's anything else you want to see running on the pocket s before it's officially launched over on Indiegogo let me know down down in the comments below and also let me know what you think about this device are you going to skip an Android device like this if they hit that right price point is this something you'd think about picking up and what would the right price point be for a device like this the screen is awesome it's putting out great performance but of course we do have more powerful x86 powered handhelds on the market got some Intel ones coming up from other manufacturers IO has put a bunch of risen powered handhelds out they're definitely going to have to keep the price way under those other devices in order for this thing to succeed in the market we're in right now so let me know in the comments below what the price point on this thing should be but that's going to wrap it up for this one really appreciate you watching I will keep everybody updated in my community section I'm personally waiting on seeing the price on this thing I don't know exactly when the Indiegogo is going to launch and I'm still waiting on a few more updates for this unit itself but so far it's been a really great Android handheld as soon as I get a go-ahead from IO I will make another video showing off battery life benchmark and everything like that that's one thing I haven't been able to show with this prototype just yet due to early software development but as soon as they clear me for those bench marks I definitely want to show them off I think people will be kind of surprised by what this thing's doing if you've got any questions you want to see anything else running on the pocket s let me know in the comments and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at some emulation on the upcoming ion Neo pocket s now if you're not familiar with this new handheld from iono that's totally fine I'll give you a quick rundown on everything that got going into this device but like I mentioned we're definitely going to be showing off some emulation in this video and I have created one other kind of a first look video the unit they sent over is a early protoype it's totally not finished yet but it's actually really polished for the way it is software has been continuous updated since I've had this in my possession and I've noticed an increase in performance just from their OTA updates that they've been throwing out a lot of different Power profile tweaks and things like that because after all this is using a newer arm s so the Qualcomm Snapdragon g3x gen2 specifically designed for gaming handhelds this will be the first one to market with the g3x Gen 2 and in my original first look video we did test out a bunch of Android games some high-end Android games in fact and this chip will definitely handle anything that's on Google play right now I mean you want to do some ginch impact highest settings 60fps not a problem it is actively cooled which means it does have a fan and they've created a new Dragon Tamer cooling system specifically for the Snapdragon g3x Gen 2 io's done a pretty good job here and this chip will do up to 15 watts it really does put down some amazing performance for Native Android gaming and emulation and real quick just give you a look they are going to be offering two different colors we've got a white and a black it's got that snap dragon g3x Gen 2 Gaming platform it's an 8 core cryo CPU and the highest in cores will do up to 3.36 GHz along with the new adreno a32 GPU which does 1 GHz you can get this with up to 16 GB of RAM and 1 terabyte of storage they're also going to be offering some lower-end variants absolutely beautiful bezeless full display it's a 1440p IPS mirror screen CNC all the way around the edges it does have Hall based analog sticks and Hall based triggers around back they're not exactly sure on the overall weight by the time this is fully fleshed out but it's pretty light and it's only 14 mm thick price has not been disclosed even to me just yet and I'm really waiting on that that's really going to make her break this device but you can definitely upgrade the storage it's got a Micro SD card slot and obviously it's running Android since we've got that Snapdragon arm so but now it's time to jump into some emulation and see how this thing performs and you know when it comes to the lower-end stuff NES s NES GBA DS even N64 you're not going to have a problem even Sega Saturn using something like yasi and shirou runs really well I went through and tested a few games here and there not bad at all I also wanted to test out some atomas wave and Naomi I'm using flycast here really good performance and of course when it comes to Dreamcast you could always go with flycast or you could go with redream and with this I mean you can totally Max it out you can go up to 4K resolution with this chipset and the screen here is 144 40p so it does look really good and especially when you're upscaling something like PSP here's the stain alone version of PPSSPP Vulcan back in 5x resolution everything that I tested ran at full speed here and we could go higher with that resolution if we wanted to but then you know you're just pushing more power burning more battery life and this is about as good as it's going to look on this display given that it is 1440p and it does look amazing it'll even handle the harder to emulate games like Ghost of Sparta chain of Olympus not a problem here at 5x with that Vulcan back in and that new a32 GPU is really what allows us to kind of upscale all of these emulators it's running at up to 1 GHz in the pocket s and you can really see the difference when it comes down to graphical Fidelity in Native Android games and even emulation moving over to some GameCube using the Dolphin Emulator openg G everything that I tested I just went at 1080p with it so this is 3x resolution with the official doph build you could go up to 4X with a lot of this stuff some of the harder to run games like Rogue Squadron just won't do up to 4X yet on any Android device that I've ever tested but most of these games will I just left it right there at 1080p because I think it's a nice sweet spot for battery life and just how good it looks on this screen personally I didn't even go in and test Vulcan with the Dolphin Emulator because even the developers of the Dolphin Emulator state that on Snapdragon open GL is really the best performance you're going to get out of it and everything that I thrown at this so far has run at full speed 3x resolution with openg GL now I'm sure there's some GameCube games that will still struggle on this chipset that's kind of how the whole uh GameCube ecosystem with dolphin on Android is right now there's some games that just aren't going to perform well on an arm chip like the Need for Speed series a lot of those games just kind of all over the place but even Rogue Squadron 2 runs at 60 FPS upscale to 1080p on the Ino pocket s I also wanted to test out some 3DS emulation using Citra I'm using a development build right now or a nightly build 3x resolution and we do have access to the Vulcan back again in the past we were kind of stuck with openg on Android with 3DS but now that we have access to Vulcan even lower in chips will be able to run some of these games at 1 a and personally I'd like to go back to some older chips and test this new build out with Vulcan this is something I've been waiting on for a couple years now it's always been open with 3DS on Android but now that we have access to Vulcan I think some of those older chipsets are going to perform much better and finally we've got some PS2 using the nether sx2 patch 3x resolution and with these games I did swap between openg and Vulcan some games just perform better with Vulcan some work better with openg G but for the most part PS2 is fully playable on the pocket s and I've actually been able to take some of the harder to emulate games up to 3.5 a I just left it at 3x here but in my original first look video I did show some games off running at 3.5x like Gran Turismo 3 and even ratet and clang those games ran amazingly at 3.5 and I'm sure some easier to emulate games like Crash Bandicoot could go up if you wanted it to but we're already right there almost at the full resolution this screen does support out of the box already this is pretty awesome and of course you know we've been using ether sx2 for a while unfortunately it did get ads recently so there is a patch out there known as nether sx2 which allows you to kind of patch all of that out plus they add some new controller profiles which do come in handy for different devices this is one of those I didn't have to do anything to the overall control layout on the pocket s registers in Android as an Xbox One controller so all of the games all of the emulators that I've been able to test here have just kind of picked it up automatically and I didn't have to do any kind of mapping and having that more powerful GPU with the Snapdragon gaming platform really does help out with upscaling PS2 here's God of War 2 we're at 3x and you can see I mean we're at a constant 60 even with all of those effects and particles on screen usually we kind of dip on down even on some higher end Snapdragon chips out there right now but with this it's steady through at 3x overall the pocket s has been handling emulation and Native Android gaming like a boss and I kind of suspected it would given the chipset we have here now really what's going to make her break this device is going to be the the price that iono comes out of the door at of course they will be offering a few different variants this one here is a 12 GB model with 128 GB of internal storage it's not even their highest in 16 gig 1 tbte unit and when it comes to emulation on Android having a little extra Ram is great but I do think that 12 gigs is going to be plenty for an Android device for basically everything we want to throw at this now if there's anything else you want to see running on the pocket s before it's officially launched over on Indiegogo let me know down down in the comments below and also let me know what you think about this device are you going to skip an Android device like this if they hit that right price point is this something you'd think about picking up and what would the right price point be for a device like this the screen is awesome it's putting out great performance but of course we do have more powerful x86 powered handhelds on the market got some Intel ones coming up from other manufacturers IO has put a bunch of risen powered handhelds out they're definitely going to have to keep the price way under those other devices in order for this thing to succeed in the market we're in right now so let me know in the comments below what the price point on this thing should be but that's going to wrap it up for this one really appreciate you watching I will keep everybody updated in my community section I'm personally waiting on seeing the price on this thing I don't know exactly when the Indiegogo is going to launch and I'm still waiting on a few more updates for this unit itself but so far it's been a really great Android handheld as soon as I get a go-ahead from IO I will make another video showing off battery life benchmark and everything like that that's one thing I haven't been able to show with this prototype just yet due to early software development but as soon as they clear me for those bench marks I definitely want to show them off I think people will be kind of surprised by what this thing's doing if you've got any questions you want to see anything else running on the pocket s let me know in the comments and like always thanks for watching\n"