Handheld gaming PC maker AYA is increasing its product lineup. This month the corporate plans to launch the skinny and light-weight AYA Neo Air with an OLED show and a lower-than-usual price ticket. Then the AYA Neo 2 with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U processor and RDNA 2 graphics is coming later this 12 months.
The corporate can be teasing another upcoming merchandise together with its first handheld with a keyboard. Meet the AYA Neo Slide.
Whereas pricing and availability haven’t been introduced but, right here’s what we all know in regards to the AYA Neo Slide thus far:
- It has an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U processor with Radeon 680M graphics
- The show slides as much as reveal a keyboard
- The keyboard characteristic RGB backlighting
AYA says the slider is impressed by basic Home windows handhelds (just like the OQO and Sony Vaio UX sequence) in addition to cell phones with slider mechanisms that cover keyboards or even game controllers.
A more moderen comparability is probably going the GPD Win 3, one other handheld gaming PC with a slide-up show and a built-in keyboard (though it’s disappointingly a capacitive contact keyboard that’s not notably responsive or simple to sort on), however GPD and AYA have a behavior of circuitously mentioning each other by identify.
Throughout the press event the place AYA unveiled the AYA Neo Slide, the corporate defined that it will likely be a premium gadget that falls right into a fourth product class for AYA merchandise, which now embody “mainline,” “NEXT,” “Air” and “Slide” sequence gadgets.
When you’re questioning how the lineup appears to be like when it comes to pricing, the AYA Neo Air might be an entry-level gadget, whereas the AYA Neo 2 and AYA Neo Slide are flagships with greater efficiency and better worth tags.
AYA has additionally teased a number of different upcoming {hardware} and software program bulletins.
The corporate is growing a model of its AYA Space recreation launcher that can be utilized on non-AYA {hardware}. It’ll be known as AYA Area Lite, however there’s no ETA on when it will likely be out there but.
And AYA can be planning to launch new {hardware} sooner or later that’s not designed for handheld gaming, though it’s unclear if meaning the corporate is engaged on desktop PCs, laptops, equipment, or one thing else altogether.
