Anbernic is a Chinese language firm that’s liable for a lot of the cheap-but-sometimes-decent handheld recreation consoles which have flooded the market lately. However the present tit-for-tat tariff battle between the US and China has prompted the corporate to droop shipments from China to the US beginning right now.
Clients within the US can nonetheless place orders for Anbernic handhelds. However the firm says you’ll need to choose merchandise that present a “ships from: US” choice to be able to be sure you’re ordering a product that’s already landed in america and might be shipped with out incurring any extra responsibility charges.
That’s most likely dangerous information for anybody within the US who hoped to get their arms on the upcoming Anbernic RG557 handheld with a 1080p show, MediaTek Dimensity 8300 processor, and 12GB of LPDDR5X reminiscence.
Anbernic had been planning to promote that handheld for $249 beginning later this week, however because it’s not but out there for buy anyplace, it’s unlikely that the corporate already has any items in inventory at its US warehouse. So prospects within the US will seemingly have to attend a while earlier than they’ll get the corporate’s highest-performance Android-powered handheld to this point.
I wouldn’t be stunned to see different corporations take comparable actions within the coming months, however the tariffs are prone to have an effect on smaller corporations like Anbernic earlier than we see their affect on bigger PC and shopper electronics corporations.
by way of Gizmodo