Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “You’ve NEVER seen a Caveat this big – PeakDo mmWave Handheld”.
I remember when the concept of streaming games, wirelessly uh to a handheld device, was kind of a wacky idea and it was kind of made fun of by both people in the PC and the console Community as something that’s like. Why would you want to do that? There’S going to be latency, there’s going to be, you know, degraded, visuals and all that, but now there’s all sorts of different handheld devices like the peak dough yeah. What’S it called, it’s called the peak dough, 7-inch mm wave streaming, handheld game device say that and this device specifically is you know, as it sounds like a handheld gaming device with no actual computer inside of itself. It’S got controllers for its wireless receiver and it’s got a display, but it’s meant only to stream uh games from other devices. So that’s whether that be PC or console. I’M excited for this because I have been recently using my ion Neo Pro 2021 retro power.
I think is what it’s called. I want it out of the lmg Christmas party, what a great company – and it actually has a ryzen uh, 5800 or 4800u in it. I forget, you can run games locally on it, but you can also stream games to it and I’ve been using it for that quite a bit.
So I’m excited to check this out. This device comes with a dongle which is in here I’m assuming foreign adapter. It comes with this HDMI dongle, which you plug into the HDMI output, of whatever it will stream directly 60 gigahertz millimeter wave Wireless Spectrum to this device. Let’S take a look at the device itself.
It is, you know, vaguely switch like uh. It’S got some vents on the top here and slidable controllers. I believe that they slide off in the same way that joy-cons do so it’s a little bigger than a switch. I believe that this is a seven inch display.
I believe they said that the side rails are compatible with joy-cons. We’Re going to confirm that right here. Oh look at that on the top. We have a power button.
We have a check mark button that I’m not sure what that does. Maybe I’ll find out later. A plus and minus button, probably volume we’ve got a headphone jack, very nice and a USBC Port. That looks like it’s probably power on the back.
Is this something I don’t know? We got the rails for the controllers, as I mentioned on the bottom speakers. I guess two speakers on either side. I haven’t seen another variant of the controllers other than this like kind of retro. You know see-through design, which is freaking sweet.
Let’S slide them on here and see how it feels we got our joysticks. We got our abxy just like the switch. We got A plus and minus button here. Just like the switch d-pad. A t button oh turns out.
The check mark button on the top is a enter, slash, menu button. There’S another button there of the. I don’t I mean it’s a circle in a square over here we got a home, a house home button and oh another t button, and then, of course we got the uh bumpers and the triggers okay. What else is in the package? Uh? We got a USB power, adapter USBC power, adapter, okay, we have a USBC cord, five feet or so using my objective measure. We don’t need the lab and there are USB C ports on the bottom of each one of the controllers. I guess to charge: there’s no physical connector on the rail because, as we’ll see in a moment, these controllers actually don’t connect to this thing.
They connect to the thing, that’s playing the game we’ll get into it. We also have a USB a dongle which is the Bluetooth adapter for the controller. Next up we have the HDMI dongle.
We’Ve got the HDMI connector. Here we got a 5 volt USBC connector. I believe that is for the USB a cable that’s going to also go into the system, we’ll find out there’s a button on the back, which I guess is for pairing, maybe, and then we have the USB a to USBC uh power.
Cable. The device also comes with a screen protector, and this patch is the thing that helps you install the screen protector without having lids and crap and bubbles on your screen, speaking of which there’s a I haven’t, peeled the thing that I’m supposed to peel off this. So uh we’re all learning things today.
Also, I didn’t even mention it’s nice that it comes with this uh, it’s like travel case and with a zippered pocket and everything and a doohickey to hold things in place. It’S time to turn this puppy in and find out whether the hype is worth the hype. After this message from our sponsor Newegg, look on the sunny side of Technology with Newegg and their wide variety of computer hardware, software and electronics is your rig at home. Fried did someone poach your favorite, monitor, Newegg offers competitive prices fast and reliable shipping 30-day hassle-free returns and excellent customer service to ensure that you have the best shopping experience possible. Look. It all boils down to this there’s a reason.
Newegg is the go-to destination for all. Your Tech needs check them out at lmg.gg, Newegg, real, quick, let’s find out how much it weighs 558 grams yeah. They say it’s 380 grams without the controllers 423 HDMI. Oh, are we gon na? Is it gon na fit next to the power adapter? Yes, the USB C goes here and then the a end goes into an a port. Usb, a port setting up a device something’s happening, multi-touch v5000 is ready to go. Is this the pairing button or if that’s a button, it is not really responding.
First, okay, let’s try turning this thing on. Oh it’s already transmitting. I didn’t even have to do anything else. Although that’s, this is not right, because this is the same Tech used by 5G. You know millimeter wave uh Wireless Spectrum. It basically needs line of sight to the transmitter. So even this situation, where we had the laptop here, there’s the transmitter – and I put this down with the controllers – I had it resting on the table like that it’ll break. However, if you hold it in an orientation where the antenna basically line of sight with the peak dough logo on the transmitter, that’s where the antenna is in the HDMI dongle, then Bob’s, your uncle. It is very responsive, which is the whole reason why you want to use a product like this is the ultra low latency. When you use cloud streaming, you can take a streaming device into another room, lay on your bed and play your games.
You can’t do this with this, unless your PC will be in line of sight, so the next step of the process is connecting the uh the controllers. These are connected to the PC slide them in. Oh, I just covered the antenna. It’S gone. Oh touch.
Control works. The USB cable that’s plugged into the wireless transmitter here is not just to power the wireless, the HDMI transmitter. I can send touch control information through the HDMI, which then gets sent to the well to the dongle which sent gets sent into the PC via the USB.
Here we are in the game, I got a line of sight and the joy cons are working. This is 1920×1200 here, and this is 1920×8 1080.. So we got some black bars on the side here. I’M sure we could, like you know, have the black bars here.
Instead of here, if we want to – but you know I’m just happy to be here also – this yellow border is because we’re screen recording uh the laptop with OBS, obviously with anyone wireless streaming solution, you’re going to have like a little bit of latency, but I’m actually, You know I’m a little disappointed to see that the latency between me moving the controller and seeing how that changes is it’s very noticeable. The reason why there might be this latency still despite using this fancy, fancy 60hz millimeter wave Tech is because these are regular. Bluetooth connection for the controllers, which is going to the computer and then it’s sending that information back over the 60hz connection. I can verify that. That is why I think, because when I use the trackpad, it’s almost one to one there’s, almost no latency. If you connected a wired controller to your PC, you would have zero latency if you had like a really long USB cord.
Maybe am I just not used to controller FPS like come. Try this just move your view back and forth and, like tell me, if that’s normal, this feels totally fine. Does it feel like I’m at a disadvantage or like I’m, my input is not real. I feel like I’m at a disadvantage. Well, I feel like this is totally what gaming feels like okay, so to Jake’s point I don’t usually play with wireless controllers. Now I will say, as someone who regularly plays games streaming, I beat all of Jedi Survivor just streaming uh from my work PC to my ieneo. I will say that this this latency is more than acceptable. Like it’s, it’s super playable. I could easily play this entire game with this amount of latency. It is just given the claims made by this product.
You say you have zero latency, I’m going to give you a bit of a hard time. Is that okay cheese? What, oh, is that that’s a decoy? It’S been so long since I played this game. So as I’m dying here, everything looks nice and sharp uh there’s a 1080p display, 60 hertz uh and it doesn’t seem to have any trouble. You know transmitting I’m not seeing almost almost zero visual artifacts so, like the quality of you know, the streaming experience here is great. This device cannot just be used with PC, you can use it with consoles or basically anything that has an HDMI port. It’S a wireless display, you can stream your console games and we have a switch here. I’M gon na try it out real quick, so it’s plugged in it’s powered by the USB cord and uh we’re getting a image on the display.
As I said earlier, these rails are actually compatible with the joy cons, so you can just slide the joy-cons right onto this thing. That also looks exactly like a switch. Why would you want to do that? Oh because, when the switch is plugged into the dock, it outputs full 1080p handheld, it’s 720p only.
How would you connect the controllers to your console for the switch? At least you don’t actually need the Bluetooth dongle uh. These will connect directly to the switch. I think because they have the joy-con hardware ID now, I’m going to put them on the peak dough, and I am now using it. Wirelessly with the third party controllers latencies over the Bluetooth connection, for the controller, seems about the same we’re playing audio over the speakers and just to see how they sound in it. It’S not amazing. Ah, however, there is a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, so you can use that instead, oh we countered wow.
Well, the experience here is great. I wouldn’t buy this specifically for switch stuff, but I mean it’s cool to see that you can do this whole. Like 1080p handheld thing, the seven inch version is 350. The 11 inch version foreign, so this seven inch has a max brightness of 500 nits and the 11 inch has 300 nits. The question is: is 350 worth it for a device that doesn’t have an internal processor? It has a lot of limitations. You have to connect your controllers to the device that you’re streaming from instead of just having one solution.
Another limitation is the fact that you have to be in line of sight. However, the latency, at least for the visuals streaming, is very, very low. The consumer that they’re targeting appears to be someone who has a PC or a console in the same room as the place where they want to stream it to wirelessly.
They have a TV and they’re with their partner or their friend, and they want to either watch something and play something. At the same time, you can have shoulder to shoulder time with your significant other, while also ignoring each other. You know – maybe you wouldn’t use the seven inch one for this, but I could see using the 11 inches sort of like a you know, secondary display for a laptop there’s options, but it is really hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that, like Someone would buy this instead of spending like a bit more and getting something like a steam deck, but that’s gon na be up to you.
A lot of things that I’ve been saying today are just very particular to me. What do you guys think leave a comment below if you are going to drop 350 on on this and tell me why .