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It arrived!

It arrived and I am stunned. It is so tiny, so cute.

I only able to share some initial impressions for now:

• The screen is tiny, but very legible. I love it.
• The vertical arrangement is suboptimal for action games. Comfortable for everything else.
• The side/back buttons are difficult to reach. The whole device is bit too small for my liking... (but I knew it)
• I wish it had wifi for transferring files. Or at least that USB allowed it. But no, I have to put wear and tear on the SD card slot ;P
• The retro console emulation is near perfect. SCUMMVM works like a charm. DosBox - I need to discover how to configure virtual keyboard and mouse so it is at least somewhat usable (but it works otherwise pretty well).
• It is stereo! At least on headphones.
• I don't know what game to play first. There is just too many of them ;)

More to come...

~albeert