Leak: Lenovo’s Larger Legion Handheld Adds Oled And Keeps The Detachable Mouse

Earlier today, Evan Blass revealed an unannounced Lenovo Legion Go S handheld gaming PC pinch an highly intriguing twist: a Steam fastener that suggests it could beryllium nan first third-party SteamOS handheld, and frankincense nan first existent competitor to nan Steam Deck.

But that handheld gaming PC apparently won’t beryllium alone: Blass conscionable provided The Verge pinch these images of a new, larger Lenovo Legion Go arsenic well.

As you tin see, this Legion Go plans to support nan detachable Joy-Con for illustration gamepads and kickstand that were nan azygous astir unsocial features of nan original — and they’ll support nan “FPS mode” wherever you tin plop 1 of those controllers connected a disc-shaped skate and usage it for illustration a vertical mouse.

But 1 exemplary whitethorn too move retired nan Legion Go’s 8.8-inch IPS LCD aboveground for 1 pinch an OLED expanse astatine nan aforesaid size, according to nan original filenames of these images. That should mean improved colors and deeper blacks, and perchance improved consequence times.

We don’t personification immoderate specs aliases trading claims yet, though, for illustration nan all-important artillery life size. Nor personification we gotten a glimpse of nan ports connected this system. There is an AMD Z2 Extreme spot coming that could apt beryllium nan halfway of this handheld, but we don’t yet know.

In my reappraisal of nan original Legion Go, I was mixed connected nan detachable controllers pinch their sharp-ish edges and loads of different rodent buttons that made them awkward to hold. These 1 look to beryllium acold overmuch smoothly sculpted, though, pinch revised rodent buttons connected nan correct detachable pad, and a surface you tin spot complete nan mounting obstruction truthful nan copper charging pins don’t flick your palm.

The images we’ve seen do not characteristic a Steam button, truthful it’s alternatively apt Lenovo is still hedging its bets pinch Windows successful summation to SteamOS.

But we are overmuch overmuch assured successful our prediction that nan smaller Lenovo Legion Go S will beryllium a SteamOS handheld. Blass showed maine filenames that propose nan S will beryllium “powered by” Steam, mirroring Valve’s caller branding guidelines for “Powered by SteamOS” devices.

Valve defines “Powered by SteamOS” arsenic “hardware moving nan SteamOS operating system, implemented successful adjacent collaboration pinch Valve.”

We’ve reached retired to Valve and Lenovo to hopefully study more.