What’s this new mystery Nintendo device?

Nintendo has submitted a mysterious caller wireless device to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this weekend, and it isn’t the Switch 2 console we’re expecting to beryllium revealed earlier adjacent April. The CLO-001 exemplary fig doesn’t uncover what it actually is, but it appears to beryllium an wholly caller merchandise enactment fixed the “001” codes utilized connected devices similar the archetypal Switch (HAC-001) and DS (NTR-001) consoles.

It’s tagged lone arsenic a “wireless device,” not a “wireless crippled console” oregon immoderate benignant of controller similar a Joy-Con. A basal diagram wrong the documents shows an outline of wherever the FCC statement volition beryllium “displayed successful a slump country connected the bottom” of thing with a squarish footprint and rounded-off corners.

The documents besides amusement that there’s nary body-worn accessory progressive with the testing, that it doesn’t person a battery, and tin lone run plugged successful — it was connected to the aforesaid USB-C charger that Nintendo ships with its Switch consoles successful tests, but that lone reveals it tin beryllium powered by USB-C.

The CLO-001 is amazingly airy connected wireless exertion — there’s nary 5GHz oregon 6GHz Wi-Fi radio, and nary Bluetooth, but it does athletics a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi vigor and a 24GHz mmWave sensor. 

The 24GHz mmWave sensor is the astir absorbing item we have. It could beryllium a radar sensor to way movement, similar intimately pursuing gestures oregon detecting erstwhile idiosyncratic is adjacent to the instrumentality causing it to crook connected automatically. Same arsenic we’ve seen successful 60GHz sensors recovered successful devices similar the Pixel 4 and Aqara’s astute location beingness sensor.

The Wi-Fi hardware successful the first-gen Switch was created by Cypress Semiconductor, a institution that was acquired a fewer years ago by Infineon, which is present promoting the capabilities of its 24GHz radar sensors. 24GHz radar tin supply a detection scope of up to 100m, with penetration imaginable done obstacles, astatine the tradeoff of a larger size and little resolution, according to Infineon. We couldn’t archer which hardware is wrong this device, but its website includes comparisons to 60GHz sensors.

It truly is anyone’s conjecture close present fixed the constricted accusation available. But it’s rumor play with the Switch 2 coming, truthful fto america cognize if you person immoderate amended ideas!