Infinix’s GT Verse Is An Affordable Gaming Ecosystem With A New Gaming Phone

After spending most of the 2010s conquering the African mobile market, Chinese tech brand Infinix began an ambitious expansion plan in 2023, one that included not just selling in more markets worldwide, but also a larger variety of devices.

The newest from the Shenzhen-headquartered company is a gaming phone named GT 30 Pro and a gaming tablet dubbed the XPad GT. Each device is priced roughly between $300-$400 (prices vary by region), and they offer more specs, features and accessories than other devices at the same price range.

More importantly for Infinix, these two products are part of the so-called “GT Verse,” a collection of products Infinix is marketing as a single ecosystem, catering to value-conscious mobile gamers.

The GT Verse already includes a gaming laptop, a battery pack, and a set of wireless buds. The new phone and tablet complete the ecosystem.

Let’s take a look at the phone first: the GT 30 Pro is a sleek metallic phone with a 6.78-inch OLED display with refresh rate up to 144Hz. It’s powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 8350 Ultimate, an upper mid-tier 4nm silicon with fast memory suitable for gaming devices. The phone also packs a relatively large 5,500 mAh battery. But what helps it stand out as a gaming phone are capacitive shoulder trigger buttons located on the right side of the phone (or top of the device when held sideways). To get shoulder triggers in a phone under $400 is a very welcome development, as they’re usually reserved for pricier gaming phones that cost twice as much.

The phone also has an optional accessory named the MagCase and MagCharge. I reported on the MagCharge before—it’s essentially Infinix’s take on Apple’s MagSafe, a magnetic wireless charger that snaps onto the back of the phone. The new feature this time is the MagCharge includes a cooling fan that, along with the case, provides additional thermal cooling to a device meant for heavy usage.

The tablet, meanwhile, is Infinix’s idea for bridging the gap between large (laptop) and small (phone) gaming devices. This is a rather standard looking tablet from all angles, with a 13-inch LCD display and a 10,000 mAh battery. But the silicon — a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 — and eight speakers with 3D stereo audio are better than what we usually get from devices at its price point.

One more thing I want to highlight, and this doesn’t really have to do with gaming, is Infinix’s very useful AI assistant, named Folax. This assistant leverages from both ChatGPT and DeepSeek to provide information for users. It’s very useful to have one assistant that uses the two major AI chatbots right now, and it’s very capable: I can ask the assistant to launch apps via verbal commands, or identify what’s on the screen. It certainly is more capable than Apple’s much hyped Apple Intelligence right now.

Overall, these are two capable devices that comes at a great value. Even for those who don’t play mobile games much, the GT 30 Pro and XPad GT are more than capable smartphones and tablets for everyday use.