An AYANEO gaming telephone is coming, and it slides prefer it’s 2011

AYANEO is branching out in an thrilling approach. At the top of a four-hour livestream full of bulletins, the corporate revealed it’s engaged on its first smartphone, which could have a bodily slider in the same idea to the previous Xperia Play.

There’s no launch date, no specs, and no photos of the particular system but, however AYANEO teased the gaming telephone idea with a couple of slides and slogans like “you’ll feel the difference” and “the magic lies in the slide.” The announcement got here in a phase known as “One more thing III,” which just about tells you ways packed the occasion already was.

The firm didn’t present something past a silhouette, however the implication is that this will likely be a gaming telephone with bodily controls that slide out — one thing we’ve been ready to see because the Xperia Play or, extra not too long ago, the ANBERNIC RG Slide. That system launched quickly after the patent for sliding telephones expired, and AYANEO now appears to be following go well with.

AYANEO has been busy recently. Earlier in the identical livestream, it confirmed off the dual-screen Pocket DS Android handheld, in addition to a Game Boy-style vertical console and a brand new finances sub-brand known as KONKR. The new telephone feels a part of a broader push into completely different kind elements. It’s not an enormous leap, contemplating AYANEO already makes high-end Android handhelds.

For now, there’s not a lot to go on in addition to that it exists and is in improvement. But if the ultimate product delivers, it may very well be a giant deal for cell avid gamers. We’ll look ahead to extra particulars as they arrive, and it’s price conserving an eye fixed out for a weblog publish in regards to the livestream on the company’s news center.