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Are ARM/Android Handhelds on the way out? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I love my Ayn Odin. There are great emulators on Android but also a ton of native games with controller support. With a Play Pass subscription ($30/year) and Netflix Games (which I'm paying for anyway), I have everything I need and the battery last 6h+.

The Ayn Odin has a Snapdragon 845, which is quite powerful but just borderline for PS2 and after. I was sad to see that the new Odin devices are windows/x86, which are more powerful but have shitty battery and shaky sleep features.

Other than the Razer, is there any company working on bringing newer Snapdragon chips to compact handheld android devices?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There is always the phone + controller grip option. I do that whenever I want to play something later than ps1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

An actively cooled modern ARM SoC would certainly fit way better for handheld PCs than X86... If not for the need to support decades of legacy software. I believe it will take white a while for us to see X86 go away, and in the meantime, I'll heavily prefer the X86 handhelds over the ARM ones... But a day will indeed come when this logic flips.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think the issue has always been software. Hardware, once built, is cheap. Supporting software is expensive.

If windows on arm or steam gets its act together and we have better arm support then x86 doesn't make any sense for handhelds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No way. If anything, x86/amd64 are on the way out.