Tech Advisor – October 2019

44 TECH ADVISOR • OCTOBER 2019

REVIEW

get a couple weeks’ worth of playing on the train

before having to recharge it via its Micro-USB port.

Unfortunately there’s minimal warning of battery

rundown – just a tiny indicator on the home screen.

If you miss that, the screen just slowly dims over the

course of a few minutes, forcing you to hurry and save.

Speaking of the 2.4in IPS screen, it’s big enough for

most use cases, is plenty bright and sharp for all sorts

of viewing options, and offers great colour rendition.

Unfortunately there isn’t a brightness slider – instead,

you have to hold down the Select button and then use

two Turbo buttons to adjust it with a few steps. For the

most part I left it on full-blast.

The real problem comes when having to adjust

volume of the mono speaker or headphone jack using

the same method, something I do far more often.

The screen is a

highlight of the system