The Analogue Pocket now comes in aluminum

The Analogue Pocket is getting yet different loop — but this time, it’s a small much than a refreshed colour scheme. An aluminum version is coming retired this month, and nan institution says that nan caller handhelds “are
precision CNC’d wholly successful aluminum.” They travel successful 4 colors — natural, noir, black, and indigo — and will beryllium available to preorder connected July 15th astatine 8AM PT / 11AM ET, pinch units expected to vessel connected July 17th.

That metallic assemblage doesn’t travel cheap, though. The aluminum Pocket will costs $499, a large boost complete nan $219 of nan modular version. Analogue says that nan caller type will beryllium “available successful highly limited quantities and will ne'er beryllium sold again.”

Here’s a look astatine each nan aluminum parts of nan device:

Since its motorboat successful 2021, Analogue has released a fistful of different typical editions of nan Pocket, including some agleam colors, a glow-in-the-dark version, and the always-popular transparent shell. The instrumentality allows gamers to play aged Game Boy cartridges (as good arsenic different carts, pinch nan correct adapters) connected a handheld pinch modern touches for illustration a crisp LCD screen.

The Pocket was nan company’s first handheld instrumentality aft antecedently releasing high-quality recreations of consoles for illustration the NES (which besides came successful aluminum), SNES, and Sega Genesis. Up adjacent is nan Nintendo 64 pinch the Analogue 3D, which was primitively planned for a 2024 release.