Acer Made An Enormous 11-inch Gaming Handheld

Acer is announcing 2 caller Nitro Blaze gaming handhelds astatine CES 2025, and 1 of them, nan Nitro Blaze 11, is genuinely elephantine pinch a monolithic 10.95-inch screen.

Seriously, it’s immense — conscionable look astatine this photograph of a personification holding it! It’s absurd!

In summation to that tremendous aboveground — which is simply a 144 Hz WQXGA touch show that tin apical retired astatine 500 nits of brightness — nan Nitro Blaze 11 is equipped pinch an AMD Ryzen 8040HS processor, 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and up to 2TB of storage, according to a spot release. The Nitro Blaze 11 too has detachable controllers, a built-in kickstand, Hall Effect joysticks, and 2 backmost buttons. (The original Blaze, announced past twelvemonth pinch a 7-inch screen, lacked backmost buttons.)

Acer’s different caller handheld PC, nan Nitro Blaze 8, is mercifully smaller, pinch an 8.8-inch screen. It has galore of nan aforesaid specs arsenic nan Nitro Blaze 11, though it lacks nan detachable controllers and built-in stand.

Both caller Blazes will beryllium disposable successful Q2 2025, Acer says. The Nitro Blaze 11 will commencement astatine $1,099.99, while nan Nitro Blaze 8 will commencement astatine $899.99.