SBC Hardware Review: SJGAM M17 SBC Handheld

It's a good low budget option, but it's very limited.

The M17 is a low budget single board computer (SBC) handheld commonly sold on AliExpress for ~$30. It features up to 128GB of storage space via a micro SD card. It also has all the basic controls needed to play all games up to the PS1 and PSP era except for the dual screens and capacitive touch screens of the DS and 3DS and PS Vita. The screen is of moderate size, and the colors are vivid and brights are bright... but dark colors get a bit muddy and washed out when playing in a brightly lit room or outside in the sunlight.

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PrismXR Portable Charger 30W

There are better alternatives to this over-engineered battery.

Sometimes, I see a really pointless, inferior product and wonder "Maybe there's a reason tons of people buy this?" The answer is almost always that those people are ignorant of the better solution. This product, the PrismXR Carina W1 Portable Charger 30W, is nothing more than a fancy-looking battery strap you can wear multiple ways that comes with cable organization tools. It's not cheap at $40 sale price ($60 regular price), and I would not have bought this... but as a reviewer, I tend to get things for free, so... yeah, I got this for free, and I decided to review it here for others to be able to find information about not just this product but a better solution.

Okay, so the product in a vacuum is not bad....

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