ANBERNIC RG505 Build Quality
First of all you will notice that ANBERNIC has updated their packaging, it’s slimmer and you’ll no longer get a wall socket included, instead, it’s just the handheld, a cable, manuals and an added screen protector.
My first impressions as I pulled it out of the box was that it feels very light for a handheld of this size, and when I shake it, there’s a lot of buttons rattling and just overall… clutter.
I don’t know why, but when something is oddly light and sounds like a cereal box in my mind it just screams low quality. I like a sturdy, well built handheld that doesn’t sound like a boxed jigsaw puzzle.
In terms of design, I don’t actually mind the way it looks, this Gameboy DMG colour variant is my favourite of the bunch, and the simple button layout on the face is easy to understand with embossed text instead of the awkward printed text that you can see on the RG353M.
But the more I look at it the more the screen bezel sticks out, and it’s one of the largest screen bezels I have seen all year, something I know many of you viewers dislike in handhelds.
Between the oversized bezels you’ll find a 5” OLED touch screen display with a 960 x 544 display, perfect for playing PSP games in 2x resolution and i had no issues, it’s bright, sensitive to touch and does the job well.
The buttons are well suited to this device, the action buttons don’t stick like some of their other handhelds and the analogue sticks are hall joysticks which are much higher quality than normal but through my review process I dd notice some flaws.
The first being the DPAD. As much as I like it, it’s firm, a great size and has a nice responsive touch. I don’t like the fact that when I press the down button, it likes to go right…
Small things like this happen on almost every ANBERNIC device I own, there’s always something, however big or small, and today, it’s the DPAD.
It’s likely easy to fix for me because I can just plough my way through unscrewing the back, but for a newcomer that doesn’t feel comfortable doing this, it’s incredibly annoying.
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