Valve has been ramping up production of its Steam Deck handheld gaming PC throughout the year, and while there were long waits when the handheld went on sale earlier this year, wait times are getting shorter and shorter.
Meanwhile, other companies making handheld game consoles are releasing new details about upcoming devices. GPD shows off the backlit keyboard on the upcoming GPD Win 4, revealing that it will be one of the first devices of its kind to feature a native landscape orientation screen (small screens often default to portrait mode). And One Netbook says its first ONEXPLAYER handheld with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U chip is on the way.
Here’s an overview of recent tech news from the web.
More good news: we beat our own production estimates again! As of today, we’ve sent invitations to everyone who still has a reservation for the third quarter (July-September) and we’re ahead of the fourth quarter: https://t.co/rsWv4K1sA7 pic.twitter.com/IC0mkiSUZ6
— Steam Deck (@OnDeck) September 19, 2022
One Netbook is teasing an upcoming ONEXPLAYER handheld gaming PC with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U processor, joining a growing number of announced handhelds with this 8-core, 16-thread chip with 12-core RDNA 2 graphics. https://t.co/nmHaM1Jdn1
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) September 19, 2022
The backlight on the physical keyboard.#gpdwin4 pic.twitter.com/5Mv5WPXsgO
— GPD game consoles (@softwincn) September 19, 2022
Wow! Native landscape! That’s a pretty big feature. (Well, if you’re using Windows exclusively)
For those who don’t know that older games on Windows DX8 or older need a wrapper to render correctly.
Even Steam Deck has a portrait-based display. https://t.co/AoSOh2BWD3
— Cary Golomb (@carygolomb) September 16, 2022
The iPhone 14 is the easiest iPhone to repair in years, as it can be opened at the front and back, so you may not have to take the whole thing apart to repair a part. But the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max are as hard to open as ever. https://t.co/Mb5KQDIOVt pic.twitter.com/6XfJOuDgDt
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) September 19, 2022
#RISCV development board compatible with OpenHarmony 3.0 for: #education in #China which takes its design from the BBC Micro:bit board. #visualprogramming #ROD https://t.co/IlstXSBQ7e
— CNX software (@cnxsoft) September 19, 2022
It looks like the Pixel 7’s Tensor G2 chip has the same CPU core structure as the G1, but slightly higher clock speeds and a switch to a 4nm process for maybe a 10% speed boost. The Mali-G710 GPU should deliver 20-35% better performance. https://t.co/VG6YlQkgCW
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) September 19, 2022
Chinese chip designer Loongson appears to be working on support for Linux laptops with LoongArch processors. However, don’t expect to find them outside of China anytime soon. https://t.co/6CvWDGtLk9
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) September 19, 2022
Weekly GNU-Like Mobile Linux Update (37/2022): #libadwait 1.2, #sxmo 1.11.1 and much more https://t.co/Nlw60L7uUm#linuxmobile #pinephone #librem5
— LINux on MOBILE (@linmobblog) September 18, 2022
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