A lot of older PC games can run just fine on modern phone hardware. I’d buy a SteamOS version of a phone that has some modular or built-in set of buttons and analog sticks. I don’t know how the app ecosystem would work for sensitive things like banking but it’s mostly a minor issue for me.
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Nah
Need my banking apps and other things for life
A Steam smartphone implies to me its main purpose is to play PC games and not caring about the other stuff. And no, for that reason I wouldn’t buy a Steam smartphone. Because playing games on mobile phone sucks, for controls (and I always need a controller in addition), battery life and size. And its probably as expensive as a PC. I would rather buy a dedicated handheld, if its available in this form. And if its based on Android, its a nogo anyway, for privacy reasons.
Yes but not for gaming, just to get a Linux phone.
Mobile sucks. Smartphones are just too limited for real gaming. First problem is the hardware; you cant just put a desktop or laptop processors into a mobile device. Second is a small screen, which is very difficult to use for touchscreen controls and simply too small to actually see what is being displayed.
Define “real” gaming.
There’s plenty of excellent games that can run on a toaster, and can run on a tiny screen
By real games i mean pc games. There are plenty of various open source lauchers or third party android ports from github which can run real pc games on android. But the problem remains: either bad performance, as the game is not optimised for mobile hardware, or terrible touchscreen controls, as the pc games might require a lot of keys to play.
For example, i can play minecraft java edition on android using zalith launcher, but some medium modpacks may not work due to lack of memory or unsupported mods, and playing it using touchscreen is very difficult. Unlike some other games, minecraft java edition isnt really designed about controllers, and even with dedicated mods which add support for them, arent really useful.
Absolutely. Can you imagine hearing the big picture mode starting every time you slide out the modern equivalent of this bad boy that was ahead of its time
Just to get away from Apple and Google.
I love the trend towards Linux phones. I hope that gets a good enough foothold for me to get one.
No, because I don’t care about gaming on a phone. But I’d love to have numerous viable Linux phone alternatives to break the cartel duopoly.
If its a viable way to get a linux phone then sure.
Probably not Steam OS, specially, but I’d love an alternative Linux-based smartphone OS.
I already have a smartphone, no intention of buying another one.
This is what is known as a “hypothetical question”, the idea is that your don’t answer based on your actual situation, but based on a hypothetical one.
So, now imagine instead that a wizard teleported your current phone into the plane of fire, destroying it, and you have a gift voucher that can only be spent on phones that’s “one free phone” and there’s a Steam Phone in the shop. Would you want it? Would you buy it?
Even if it would offer privacy?
But why would it?
Because Linux
Maybe. My phone is not a gaming device for me. But I would choose based on how well it works for other purposes.
Maybe, if was cheap. Dislike Google and Apple.
Don’t care so much about games on the phone as like GPS, texting, ad blocking in the browser.
I would, yes, if it was not OS locked.
Not if it used Android, but if they ran like a Linux based OS, yeah, I’d give it a try.
As an alternative for the Apple/Google duopoly, I’d be curious. As a gaming machine, having tried playing PC games on Android, I’d say a lot of work is still needed.
