Ayaneo's teasing us with concept photos of its 'Code: REVO' handheld, a codename 'symbolizing the innovative strength that leads gamers to walk into a whole new dimension of Ayaneo handhelds'

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While Valve's made it clear it won't be releasing a new Steam Deck every year, the handheld gaming PC market seems to be paying no heed. With talk of not one but three upcoming Lenovo Legion Go handhelds and Ayaneo teasing the Ayaneo 3, there was already plenty on the horizon for us connoisseurs of the lap and finger warmers.

There's now even more teasing afoot, this time of the more visual variety, as Ayeneo has released some tantalisingly shrouded images of the Ayaneo 3, which it now calls «Code: REVO». This codename, it says, «stands for the Revolution as the internal development code of Ayaneo 3, symbolizing the innovative strength that leads gamers [to] walk into a whole new dimension of Ayaneo handhelds».

Yeah… Ayaneo certainly knows how to toot its own horn. We knew this already, though, as the previous announcement proclaimed the upcoming handheld is a «revolution» and «foreshadows the future possibilities of handheld devices.» In other words, a whole lot of «we're about to do something cool!» with little mention of what that cool thing is actually going to be.

Given Ayaneo seems to release handhelds like Apple releases iPhones, the emphasis on «revolution» might be an attempt to distinguish it from its own crowded lineup. Now would be the time to do so, too, given there are two new mobile processor generations out there, heralding the apparent AI era, in the form of Intel Lunar Lake (Core Ultra 200V) and AMD Strix Point (Ryzen AI 300).

The big debate over all upcoming handhelds will be which of these they opt for. It looks like Lenovo might go the AMD route for new Legion Go handhelds, with one of these being a Strix Point version of a possible Z2 APU, the Z2 Extreme. The MSI Claw 8, however, will feature a Lunar Lake chip, so it's an open field right now.

Chip speculation aside, apart from Ayaneo's flowery words, what we now have are some lovely «concept» images of the curvaceous Ayaneo 3, which looks pretty similar to the Ayaneo 2, full frontal glass