I did the IMPOSSIBLE with my PlayStation Portal…

Sony should have just made the portal with the ability to download digital PS5 and PS4 games so you could play them on the go. What an absolutely terrible product.

PSA: Please don’t try this at home!

Great content, finally managed to see whats running inside it.
With some bootloader exploit it would be trivial to make it run stock android or even run linux.

To me, this device is useless since you must have a strong wi-fi connection and a PS5 to use it and of course you must have digital games to access. Playstation is turning into Apple, if you do not have the Playstation products it won't work, like bluetooth headphones. I do not like this business model because it means that they can set the price as high as they want.

Love this thing ❤

I know the teardown was mostly flying blind, but I feel like it's really misguided. Let's start with the controllers, typical DualSense teardown. Except now you have the RKJX2 stickboxes what can be accessed via removing the black plastics and thumbcaps, most failure-prone part is the easiest to access. Next are the rest of the controllers, remove the plastics, then you can pop out every FPC connector, then desolder the primary motor's wires; disappointingly these also aren't FPC. From there you're intended to use one of those heat bags, glorified bag of steamed rice, to get the screen adhesive to loosen in one shot, or at least one shot per side; frankly nobody uses a heat gun anymore, and if they do they're not going to heat the screen to the point of potentially damaging the battery, also it's not all that different from a modern phone's assembly so your statements are extremely misguided. You really come off as having no experience repairing devices, and it really shows in this video; Sony doesn't have a little black box that's difficult to open, it's just a hybrid of a mobile device and a controller, and it uses typical assembly of both, anyone with actual experience repairing devices would not have the issues you had. I'm also not surprised by the assembly, apply some logical thought as to what would happen if things were 'more accessible' via the rear; I'm not all for the disassembly process here, but at the same time Sony backed themselves into a corner with the design they chose, both functionally and aesthetically, which outright requires the disassembly process they went with.

Many people on Reddit and utube are like this handheld is the best thing ever i played it am like this succccccks i returned mine.

we need this with pc functionality STAT

Does it have hall effects because if not it's total garbage

Chinese Tablet with controller and a app running all the time…

They should of at least us DL games onto the device that we can play offline. Imagine just taking your SSD and placing in the Portal just like a game Cartiage.

Should be fun when the battery inevitably swells.

I was so ready to love the portal but my experience so far has not been great. Hasn't run smoothly once since I got it.