Leaks Reveal Lenovo’s Plans to Make an Android Gaming Handheld

Even although MWC 2021 occurred months again in the summertime, new leaks have revealed a tool that appears like Lenovo’s try and create its personal Android-based transportable gaming handheld.

While the Lenovo Legion Play was by no means formally introduced, Brad Linder from Liliputing just lately found some supply code hidden in Lenovo Germany’s and Lenovo Japan’s MWC 2021 press websites containing photos and an outline of Lenovo’s potential handheld.

According to the leaked information, the Legion Play’s description says:

“Designed for AAA gaming, the Lenovo Legion Play is the first Android cloud gaming console. The console lets users play hundreds of cloud games, stream their game library, or play mobile games. It features a 7″ 16:9 FHD bezel-less display, HDR 10, built-in controllers, dual speakers, dual vibration, and 7000mAh battery to provide the best gaming experience. Our developer program is open to all game developers. Coming soon in select markets.”

When in comparison with the brand new OLED Nintendo Switch, the Legion Play would have the same 7-inch display however with a denser 1920 x 1080 decision, however with out the OLED Switch’s extra vivid colours or the flexibility to detach its controllers from the aspect of the system. The Legion Play additionally sports activities a well-known button format to different gaming handhelds with the system that includes two analog sticks, a d-pad on the left, a handful of face buttons on the correct, and a number of shoulder buttons throughout the highest.

In images, the Legion Play appears like a slimmer and extra compact model of Valve’s Steam Deck, nonetheless, as a substitute of working a customized model of Linux, the Legion Play could be primarily based on Android. If true, this might place the Legion Play as having a considerably completely different use case than the Steam Deck, as a result of as a substitute of working AAA video games regionally on the system, the Legion Play could be higher suited to taking part in cell video games downloaded from the Google Play Store, emulated video games, and titles from cloud gaming companies like Google Stadia, Nvidia GeForce Now, and Xbox Cloud Gaming.

Currently, it’s unclear if the Legion Play helps mobile connectivity or if it’s restricted to wifi solely, however in both case, I feel the Legion Play would have to be a bit cheaper than the Steam Deck’s $400 beginning worth, lest it discover itself in an more and more crowded market smashed between the Steam Deck, all of the completely different variations of the Nintendo Switch, and different upcoming units like Qualcomm’s rumored gaming handheld.

Either manner, with the success of the Switch and large reservation numbers for the Steam Deck, it feels just like the floodgates for future Android or PC-based gaming handheld are about to be blown extensive open. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to be there’s an official date or timetable for the Legion Play’s launch, so right here’s hoping we hear extra earlier than the tip of the 12 months.

And in case one gaming handheld wasn’t sufficient, it appears Lenovo’s press websites additionally had a handful of information a few considerably bonkers idea gaming telephone referred to as the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel H20 version, which as you might need guessed, options some type of water cooling element to assist be certain that extra warmth doesn’t impression the system’s efficiency.

Lenovo’s description says:

“The Lenovo Legion Phone Duel H2O Edition is a water-cooled concept of the Legion Duel 2. Adding the active Twin Turbo-Fan was already a bold move, but bringing water cooling to a mobile phone is the perfect solution to dissipate heat and improve the device’s stability in high-performance mode. Featuring the latest processor, this phone is perfectly capable of staying cool and extracting the best performance available. To make it an epic gaming phone, we also maxed out the other specs; it comes with 18GB of ram and 1TB of storage. This product is still in the concept phase.”

And whereas Liliputing appears to suppose this idea is simply too wild for Lenovo to ever flip into an actual factor, with Lenovo already having launched a gaming telephone with twin cooling followers and a side-mounted selfie cam earlier this 12 months, I truthfully wouldn’t be shocked if a water-cooled telephone from Lenovo popped up someday subsequent 12 months (or perhaps even earlier).