Well, the specs are in. The RG35XXPro is officially real — and officially not very Pro. At this point, we’re not even mad. Just… amused.
So what’s new? Not much. The device runs on the same H700 chipset as basically every other Anbernic release since 2023, and it’s paired with 1GB of LPDDR4 RAM. Not 2GB. Not LPDDR5. Just one gig. And if you were hoping for better battery life — sorry. The RG35XXPro actually has a slightly smaller 3200mAh battery compared to the RG35XX Plus’s 3300mAh. So yeah… “upgrade” might be a generous word here.
Now to slap the word “Pro” on this feels like a stretch. What exactly is Pro here? The RAM is still 1GB. The chip is still H700. The performance will still be… fine. Not bad, but nothing that screams “this is the ultimate vertical handheld.”
At this rate, if this is the “Pro,” then maybe the Pro Max version will come with a 3500mAh battery. The Pro Max Ultra could get Wi-Fi 6. And if Anbernic’s feeling wild, the Pro Max Plus Ultra might even support microSD cards up to 1TB!
Jokes aside, if the only real change here is the addition of analog sticks, maybe it should’ve just been called the RG35XX Dual or RG35XX Stick Edition. Even RG35XX Analog would’ve made more sense. “Pro” makes people expect a performance leap, not just new joysticks on the same hardware.
To be clear, this doesn’t look like a bad handheld. There are just too many vertical RG35XX devices at this point. We’ve got the original RG35XX, then the RG35XX 2024, the RG35XX Plus, and now the RG35XXPro. That’s four 3.5-inch vertical handhelds — all running some variation of the same chip. The other H700 models at least try something new with different form factors like the SP’s clamshell or the H’s horizontal layout. But here? It’s hard to tell who this is really for.