A new Linux handheld game console based on ODROID-N2

- the weird power cable (did they cheapen out on PD? for just 7.5W there's no need to do something like that)

- the lack of exposed GPIO header (no hacking, they could have just left in unpopulated)

- the bigger size (the Odroid Go Advance was just the right size)

- the lack of option for a 10000 mAh battery

Hopefully, the framework laptop starts a new trend of devices where you can keep the shell and screen (just replacing the inside) and new motherboards can be swapped-in, with the old one returned and resold or recycled.

A subscription-basis model for motherboard upgrade or damaged case replacement could help a big reduce the waste from people updating their phone every year.

For this question I think I know the answer: USB PD chips are hard to obtain right now. So they probably left it out just due to a lack of general (reliable) availability.

There's a reason it costs Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo millions in R&D to finalise their controllers: it's hard to get right; and terrible if it's even slightly wrong.

This is clearly a budget option but I'd wish budget manufacturers tried to key into existing controllers more. Slide in ports for Nintendo JoyCons, for example. Or club together to fab a common input and ergonomics platform, just leave the computation, display and battery capacity variables.