No USB-C cable to charge the remote and no HDMI cable to plug into your TV. You get the device, a power cable and the remote. Apple also doesn't change what's in either packaging. For $149 you get a similar-looking device that doubles the storage to 128GB and adds an Ethernet port along with support for the Thread smart home standard.īoth devices support all the same audio and video formats, run the same apps and feature the same A15 Bionic chip.

We’ve yet to use the app for ourselves, but we’ll be sure to post our impressions of the app’s performance when we do.Before we go too deep, I think it's worth explaining the two different types of Apple TV 4Ks. Most times, if there’s money to be made on hardware, a company will take it. More importantly, it shows that Valve is willing to forgo releasing frivolous hardware if it can instead reach more customers - an approach that many companies might be afraid of taking. It’s the evolution of the Steam Machine idea brought to mobile phones, a device everyone owns. On paper at least, the idea of a mobile Steam Link app is great. Valve didn’t offer much in the way of additional details - but, with the release date for the app so close, Valve would probably rather us wait to test the software for ourselves instead of posting a convoluted explainer that could be subject for misinterpretation. The news of the two new Steam apps was delivered via a short blog post.

Goodbye Steam Machines, Hello Steam Handhelds Valve also announced an app for Steam Video, which brings the Steam video library with to your Android and iOS devices over Wi-Fi or LTE as well.Īccording to a follow-up email from Valve, the Steam Link app is targeting a release date somewhere during the week of May 21, with a public beta available for Android owners at some point in the near future.

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