If you’re a fan of emulation and Android gaming handhelds, then it might be music to your ears to hear that the Retroid Pocket 6 now officially supports LineageOS.
While Retroid handheld gaming devices are usually built on Android, it’s fair to say that updates are not something that the company is particularly great at. I’ve personally owned a few and still come back to my Retroid Pocket 3+ on a regular basis to blast through Pokémon HeartGold or relive my heyday on Pro Evolution Soccer 3. The hardware is superb, but yes, the software needs work.
Although older handhelds are not yet supported, LineageOS now officially supports the latest Retroid Pocket 6. This is arguably one of the best value Android emulation handhelds out there. It ships with a 5.5-inch 1920 x 1080 pixel FHD AMOLED panel clocked at 120Hz, has either 8 or 12GB of LPDDR5x RAM, 128GB of UFS 3.1 storage, with microSD card expansion up to 1TB, an internal cooling fan, 6,000mAh battery, Wi-Fi 7 connectivity, and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip means it’s no slouch.
Although it was released in October 2025, it still ships with Android 13 out of the box, and given Retroid’s poor history with software updates, you probably won’t get many if you do happen to pick one up. LineageOS 23.2 is based on Android 16 and has just been released.
