The Evercade Nexus Opens a Portal to a New World of Retro Gaming

There are some upgrades to the underlying tech, though. One material improvement is the battery, which jumped to a 5,000-mAh cell from the EXP's 3,000 mAh. Even with that bigger, brighter screen sucking up juice, the Nexus offers around five hours of play between charges, roughly an hour longer. On the audio front, the integrated front-facing stereo speakers are solid, offering louder, clearer output. Even better, the Nexus now supports Bluetooth, finally allowing you to connect wireless headphones, while still offering a 3.5-mm jack for wired headsets.

Bluetooth isn’t the only connectivity upgrade. The Nexus now supports the Wi-Fi 6 standard and can connect to 5-GHz networks (previous models could only use slower 2.4-GHz ones). That’s useful for downloading console updates and Evercade’s free Game of the Month. It also enables the new EverSync feature, unique to the Nexus, which allows multiple units to communicate wirelessly. Much like...

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