The Analogue Pocket now comes in aluminum

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

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

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

Since its motorboat successful 2021, Analogue has released a fistful of different peculiar editions of the 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, with the close adapters) connected a handheld with modern touches similar a crisp LCD screen.

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