AYANEO’s NEXT II handheld brings serious specs to portable gaming, blurring the line with full PCs (and we're excited)

Recently, the gaming handheld and mini PC company, AYANEO announced its new flagship Windows handheld, the NEXT II for "True gamers."

AYANEO has one of the largest lines of handheld gaming devices of any company on the market, but this latest device is far more powerful, with its beastly AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395.

Based on specs, this processor (powered by Zen 5 Strix Halo CPU, RDNA 3.5 Radeon 8060S integrated GPU) with up to 85W TDP performance should play games even more smoothly than the Xbox Ally X's AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme chip with up to 35W.

This handheld also features a 9.06-inch OLED display, making it one of the largest handheld screens to date. For reference, the Legion Go 2 has previously had one of the biggest displays, but it's just an 8.8-inch OLED.

What's more, the NEXT II's display has an extremely high resolution (for a handheld) of up to 2,400 x 1,504. Plus, it can swap between 60Hz, 90Hz, 120Hz, 144Hz, and 165Hz, which is higher than most other Windows handhelds out there.

Another thing worth mentioning is the gargantuan battery capacity of 115Whr. For reference, the Xbox Ally X has an 80Whr battery, and the Legion Go 2 has a 74Whr battery, so this really is big. Of course, a handheld's battery life doesn't just depend on capacity, but how efficiently the system runs, so we'll have to wait and see what battery life is actually like for this device.

Like many other high-end handhelds, this one also packs some premium features, including Hall Effect joysticks and Hall linear triggers, trigger switches, an 8-Way D-Pad for finer control, four back buttons, and a dual-fan cooling system.

As a fancy extra, it even features an AYANEO RGB name plate that you can apparently customize. Fancy.

In typical AYANEO fashion, not all of the specs for the NEXT II have been revealed just yet, including the exact ports, connectivity features, and the actual size and weight of the device. As such, we'll have to wait on more announcements in the coming months.

Additionally, no price or even an expected release date has been revealed. However, given the prices of other high-end AYANEO devices, it's very likely this beast of a handheld could sell for upwards of $2,000, aiming for serious handheld enthusiasts rather than the market at large — thus the marketing for "True gamers."

In the past, most AYANEO devices have sold at Indiegogo, but some have started appearing at Best Buy as well, so it's possible it could arrive at either location when it finally goes on sale.

We'll keep an eye out for any updates regarding this beastly AYANEO NEXT II, but what do you think about it? Tell us in the comments below.

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AYANEO NEXT II (COMING SOON): at ayaneo.com

The AYANEO NEXT II is an upcoming Windows handheld with a powerful AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor, a 9-inch OLED display that can reach up to 2,400 x 1,504p and 165Hz refresh rate. It also has a huge 115Whr battery. No price or release date has been revealed yet.

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