Portable gaming is on the rise again, long after the golden era of the PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS back in the noughties. While the Nintendo Switch was released back in 2017, that was a hybrid device that could also function as a living-room console; the real piece of kit that revived gaming on the go was Valve's Steam Deck, which hit shelves in February 2022.
Ever since, countless PC gaming handhelds have cropped up - and continue to do so, with the ROG Xbox Ally premiering at Gamescom 2025. Alongside some of the new devices at the latest gaming trade show, I also stumbled across the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra, which, I'll freely admit, I initially dismissed.
