A refreshing of the Steam Deck is coming

[John Elden Ring]

Valve already put a new Steam Deck through the FCC’s certification process on August 13th, agency documents reveal. This is very likely for a refreshing of the handheld, likely a OLED model with better built-in wifi.

Image: FCC

Image: FCC

The mystery “Valve 1030” that went through South Korea’s National Radio Research Agency has now been definitively identified as a Steam Deck, and it’s our first proof the hardware’s potentially close enough to release to justify showing it to regulators.

Quectel filed for a Class II Permission Change to simply allow its certified Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth chip, the FC66E, to retroactively work in a new Steam Deck, too.

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[Gamernyc78]

Valve already put a new Steam Deck through the FCC’s certification process on August 13th, agency documents reveal. This is very likely for a refreshing of the handheld, likely a OLED model with better built-in wifi.

Image: FCC

Image: FCC

Might cop this one!

 

[flaccidsnake]

I hope it's true, but I don't think OLED is based on anything but wishful thinking. A new wifi chip doesn't constitute a refresh.

 

[ToTTenTranz]

A larger screen would be much more usable than an OLED one at the same size. Other low-hanging fruit would be WiFi 6, larger battery and revised cooling (pushing fresh air into a heatsink instead of pulling which seems to be so much less effective).