Lenovo Android gaming handheld could take on Switch and Steam Deck

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Lenovo already makes gambling phones so hefty that it requires a shapely-in fan, so the idea of a sacred Humanoid gaming device isn't hitherto-fetched.

Well, it looks as if Lenovo has — Beaver State did have — plans for a gaming hand-held, one that's looking to take on the Nintendo Switch OLED. As premiere found by Liliputing's Brad Linder (h/t Gizmodo), the Lenovo Legion Turn was meant to be announced earlier this year at Mobile World Congress 2021. How does Linder know that? Well, after looking at the germ code for Lenovo's German and Nipponese sites, he found a production verbal description, also as a few images.

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"Designed for Abdominal aortic aneurysm gaming, the Lenovo Legion Play is the first Android corrupt gaming console," the description reads. "The comfort 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, constitutional controllers, duple speakers, dual vibration, and 7000 mAh battery to provide the best gaming experience. Our developer program is open to all game developers. Advent soon in select markets."

Lenovo Legion Play leaked pictures. — (Image credit: Liliputing)

The Lenovo Legion Play genuinely does look like a meld between a Steamer Deck and a Nintendo Shift. While Lenovo's description claims information technology to be "bezel-little," when information technology's clearly non, it does stimulate the markings of a solid handheld device.

Unlike some the Steam clean Deck and Switch, the Legion Bring off would — Oregon maybe will — featuring a full-HD display. It will also possibly have HDR 10, dual speakers, dual vibration and a chunky 7,000 mAh battery.

Unfortunately, there's no data about the acknowledged handheld's specs. But, we suspect that information technology would likely be powered by a regent Qualcomm SoC, similar to the one found on the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra.

Weirdly, according to Liliputing, there were also images connected Lenovo's MWC 2021 site of a Legion 2 Favoring gaming phone titled the Legion Headphone Duel H2O. The conception phone would have 18GB of Chock up, 1TB of storage and a gargantuan watercooling block happening the back. IT looks totally impractical.

Also spotted in the code for Lenovo's MWC 2021 website is this crazy-looking Legion Phone Duel H20 Edition, a concept phone with 18GB Ram down, 1TB storage, and... water cooling. Based happening the large design, I'm non goggle-eyed Lenovo decided non to actually unveil this at MWC. picture show.chitter.com/htnam2jUWAOctober 3, 2021

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