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Retroid Pocket 5 And Flip 2 Are Getting A Spec Bump, But Will Cost $10 More After July 14

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Even older emulation-focused handhelds can't escape RAMaggedon.

Retroid, creator of a growing number of Android-based handhelds, is cutting a deal with recent purchasers of its Retroid Pocket 5 and Flip 2 handhelds. Anyone with an unfulfilled order of the company's entry-level models with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage will get an upgrade to 12GB of RAM at no additional cost, Retroid Handhelds reports. After July 14, though, both handhelds will also cost $10 more.

While not Retroid's newest devices — that honor falls to the upcoming Retroid Pocket Nova— the Snapdragon 865 chip in both the Pocket 5 and Flip 2 mean that they're capable of emulating consoles as recent as the Gamecube or PlayStation 2. Adding more RAM into the mix should theoretically make them even better. If that change wasn't paired with a price increase, it would be easy to celebrate. Because an extra...

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