Various impressions and reviews share a largely-general consensus that performance on the Pocket Duo Lite just isn’t up to snuff, even for DS emulation. There are reports of the dual-screen handheld being laggy when just interacting with the interface, which is compounded when trying to multi-task between both screens.

At first, many of us just chalked this up to it to being the limited performance of Qualcomm’s Dragonwing QCS6125. However, we may have learned the actual reason is because the QCS6125 doesn’t natively support the use of dual-screens.

Update: Turns Out The Chipset Inside The Retroid Duo Can Handle Two Screens Natively