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Retroid has begun shipping every color option of its dual-screen Pocket Duo handheld, after missing its original October 21 launch date. Clear Purple shipped first on November 2, followed by Ice Blue, 16Bit, GC, and finally Black starting today. The cheaper Pocket Duo Lite Plus, which uses LCD instead of AMOLED screens, has not yet begun shipping.
Spanish developer Endika has built Blip, an Android launcher designed specifically for dual-screen handhelds, splitting gameplay across both displays or showing art and manuals on the lower screen for single-screen games. The launcher includes nine free themes in light and dark variants, support for nine languages, and optional paid features including RetroAchievements and RomM integration. A cloud save-sync feature called Blip Cloud is currently in private beta, offering 100MB of free storage once released.
Retroid Pocket has launched a third handheld in its Duo family, the Duo Lite Plus, which pairs the slim body of the Duo Lite with the more powerful Qualcomm Dragonwing Q-7790 chip used in the standard Duo. It's priced at $219 (or $199 with an early bird code) and ships mid-November, arriving just over a week after preorders opened for the original Duo and Duo Lite models.