I'm intrigued by any device that promises me portable play, but when Ayaneo announced the Pocket Play last week, I was concerned. I've spent the last year testing the best gaming phones on the market, and not once have I lamented the fact that none of them called back to the Sony Xperia Play. We moved past physical buttons in mobile gaming years ago, and now Ayaneo wants to bring that pocket of history back. Sometimes though, memories are best left as they were.
The Ayaneo Pocket Play throws a sliding screen back into the smartphone market, itself hiding a small physical control panel underneath. It's a design familiar to anyone who lived through the early days of mobiles, when phones did whatever they damn well pleased.
