Gaming on a phone is an abomination. There are many fun time wasters but I want a phone that does less, not more. Internet, Camera, GPS, done.
Would be crazy if it was also running steamos (arch)
Shut up and take my pixels!
Make it easily repairable like the Fairphone and then I’ll be interested
Valve should release a phone if they get into the mobile gaming industry of course steam isn’t based around that, but it would be nice if valve at least officially port their games to there…
No, but since the frame is arm based, a phone with clip on controller bits like the switch that could also play my steam games is absolutely something I would throw money at.
I’m a self proclaimed apple fanboy and I would seriously consider switching to a Linux phone by Valve. I have to admit all this hardware they’re releasing is quite intriguing.
Having a Linux phone that has chroot compartments for Android apps is the dream.
Steam Xperia Linux phone would be a dream. I think if a Steam phone did well then other companies like Asus would jump into Linux phone.
Then suddenly we get mainstream alternatives to Android.
You mean the one with PlayStation integration? Fuck yeah.
The one that you could slide out to find it has dpad and buttons to use for games.
I was just checking that yesterday, and there was the opportunity to have something equivalent to a “steam phone” with https://liberux.net/#specs , but the indiegogo failed.
One that is actually sold is the Furiphone , which is under finalization of software update., and has chroot for Android apps with Waydroid. check the links ! 😊
The GNU organization just announced a Linux phone a couple weeks ago
Not exactly that but Jolla might be interesting for you. I had the first edition of the device in 2014 and I loved it.
Thry finally released a second gen hardware last year I think.
BlackBerry had a separate walled/secured android instance a long time ago. I wish that more people bought the phone. Jolla is interesting, but I really want the banking apps to work.
You know, I would 100% buy a phone from them if it runs Linux
With the amount of work they are putting in compatibility layers technology, I wouldn’t be surprised if you could run The Witcher 3 on it out of the box.
Me too, even if I could have more bang for my buck elsewhere.
Give it a decent camera, battery life and good security as well as privacy and take my money already!
These types of posts worry me because I can’t tell how much of it is a joke, and how much of it is sincere. It’s starting to feel like the healthy skepticism towards Valve that existed before is now mutating into Apple fanboy shit.
Valve is a monopolist. Maybe you happen to like them, but they’re still a monopolist. They have a monopoly on PC gaming, and you’re cheering for them to have a monopoly on smartphones? Maybe you think they’ll be “better” monopolists than Apple or Google, but they’re still fucking monopolists. Monopolization is the root cause of the enshittification epidemic, and a lot of the inequality and just obviously-broken shit in the economy. It’s no coincidence the Trump admin is so eagerly supporting consolidation, and his FTC has stopped absolutely zero mergers.
This is the non-political version of the “leopards ate my face party” joke.
Well, if they get any market share in phones, that will mean the phone market will be less of a monopoly, not more.
And yes, they are a monopoly in gaming. They haven’t exploited that monopoly yet, but as companies go, it’s just a matter of time until something happens and changes that. That doesn’t make them getting into phones bad.
And yes, they are a monopoly in gaming.
The biggest PC games aren’t on Steam. Minecraft isn’t, Fortnite isn’t, Roblox isn’t. Because of Fortnite alone, the installed base of EGS is massive, the people just choose to buy their non-Epic games somewhere else.
Call it the Steam Iron.
I think it’d be Steam Sight, or Steam Sight Glass.
It fits the theme and is essentially a window to peer into steam pipes to assess how things are going. An easy view inside the system.
Also called View Port, Sight Window, and I think Sight Flow?
Steamy Chocolate Bar.
I hope for Steamie Boi
Pls with a jack and sd slot
Ah yep. 1st gen will have those, but only in 2G/GSM network, no wifi
not a pro memer yet
Isn’t Steam Frame run in SteamOS(which is linux based) made for ARM chip?
While there likely won’t be a steam phone, it technically exists as of now.
Not sure I follow… A steam frame isn’t a phone. It can’t make or receive phone calls
What the other comment said. Since Valve is already half way there with their Steam Frame version of SteamOS(which run on ARM architecture, where phone and tablet also use) and Linux phone iirc do exists, it’s only a matter on how much futher Valve wanna go. So as of now they “technically” already have half a steam phone.
It only lacks a modem & dual antennas tho.
It’s a few gens back top of the line snapping turtle (Snapdragon), 16 giggies of ram & some disk space, a battery, two LCDs, a bunch of cameras, an sd card slot, speakers, huge battery, and it runs Linux (SteamOS of unknown openness).
Maybe it could “receive phone calls” (eww) if you would plug in a usb (or pcie) modem.
I think what they meant is that the technology exists since steam frame is an ARM based device it’s just a matter of running it on different hardware and adding firmware support for things like phone calls and touch screens.
I want a cyberdeck with cellular connectivity with talk/text.
I imagine it will be a big deck
Everyone loves a big deck
If it’s the size of an iphone 13 mini or smaller, I’ll buy it.
Yes please.
