This $39 Power Bank Recharges Your Steam Deck 1.5 Times
Power banks are the least glamorous purchase in handheld gaming and the one that most often decides whether a 12-hour flight becomes a playthrough or…
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A $2.50 Right-Angle USB-C Cable Is a Handheld Charging Steal
Two and a half dollars per cable is less than a coffee, and if you own more than one handheld you already know the pain of digging a spare USB-C cord…
ArmadaOS Brings Aurora Store and Dual-Screen to Handhelds
ArmadaOS's newest build does something SteamOS proper still can't: launch Android apps from inside Steam's Game Mode without ever touching a desktop.…
SleepManager Cuts Android Handheld Standby Drain — No Root Needed
Leave an Android handheld sitting in a case overnight and there's a decent chance it greets you with a battery percentage that has quietly fallen off…
Valve's Deck Data Shows the Gap Between FPS and Preference
Most Steam Deck owners have never once shrugged at 15 FPS and called it a day — and now Valve is showing developers exactly how rare that player is.…
Prime Day's $30 Power Bank Refills a Steam Deck 1.5 Times
Twenty-nine dollars for 74 watt-hours only looks like a boring number until you're forty minutes into a flight with a Steam Deck sitting at 12…
Handheld PC Prices Jump 40%: Now Laptops Want Your Cash
Forty percent. That is roughly how far the price of a formerly affordable handheld PC has climbed, per Rock Paper Shotgun's James Archer, who spent…
Steam Deck 2's Gainsborough APU: 16 RDNA 5 CUs Explained
Four and a half years after the original Steam Deck launched on TSMC's 7nm node, we finally have a plausible silicon target for its successor.…
Armada Slashes Sleep Drain 50% on Snapdragon Handhelds
Armada's latest changelog reads like a list of the exact complaints ARM handheld owners have been filing for a year. The community SteamOS-on-ARM…
$14 Power Bank Adds 3 Switch 2 Charges — Check the Wattage
For Switch 2 owners, the pitch is pure arithmetic: 19Whr of internal battery, a pack that claims roughly 3.1 full recharges, and a total playtime…
GPD Win 5 Adds a Cheaper Strix Halo Tier — Battery Not Included
GPD has spent the better part of a year selling a handheld that doesn't ship with a battery, and its newest move is to charge $1,722 for one with…
FPGB MINI Manual Reveals a 5x Game Boy Screen and Slow Charger
FunnyPlaying didn't cut a trailer, didn't post a price, and didn't pick a launch date. It published a user manual — and in the retro handheld scene,…