Lenovo has another unconventional experience that it announces The mobile global conferenceThe Thinkbook “Codename Flip” AI PC concept. It is a laptop for productivity / business with a flexible screen, allowing it to be used as a 13.1 -inch traditional local tub, a 12.9 -inch folded tablet, or a laptop with a 18.1 -inch vertical screen.
Thinkbook Flip uses the same OLED plate as $ 3500 ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 This is expected to arrive at some time in June – only here, it was prepared for folding behind the main part of the screen instead of extending it under it. This means that there are no engines, which can reduce costs, and no from the screen is left unused inside the structure – so the property of 0.4 inches on the additional screen on the Gen 6.
When folding again, the face can be used like a 13 -inch regular laptop, although approximately half of its screen facing back. You can use this rear part that faces the background of the mirror or extends your screen and introduces it to someone else without the need for a screen or external display, or leave it empty. But the real star of the width is when you turn the screen up to get every 18.1 inches / 2000 x 2664 glorious OLED resolution for yourself. In addition to the ability to display documents and long sites, it places the webcam and the top of the screen at the cute eye level and dance.
Outside its screen, the other unique feature in FLIP is the smart tracking panel. It provides three colors coded layers of touch -colored shortcuts and media controls that you can contact within the painting itself. They can convert the tracking panel into a numbers panel, or provide shortcuts into functions such as the cutting tool or a microphone sound button, or act as an application launcher. Samuel Shang, the lead researcher at Lenovo Research, told me that preparing the company’s dream is to replace the touch board with a smartphone, but that will be very expensive. The luminous basic symbols provided a just compromise.
Although the face is still in the concept stage, Lenovo has some estimated specifications for what can be entering inside, which seems to be a promising sign that this laptop will already come to the market. The Intel Ultra 7, 32 GB of RAM LPDDR5X, PCIE SSD storage and Thunderbolt 4 ports, and distinguish the fingerprint reader.
Thinkbook Flip saw him in a brief experimental show before MWC was an early preliminary model that still feels fragile and slightly rough around the edges. It was far from the ready -made ThinkBook in addition to the Gen 6 that I saw in CES, which I had no accurate treatment. But my colleague Alison Johnson saw another preliminary model of the face in Barcelona in MWC, which already looked a little further and less.
There is always an opportunity for not that this concept never exceeds the stage of the initial model, but since it borrows components of Thinkbook Plus Gen 6, the possibilities may be in its favor. It may be logical to make sense as an alternative offer if his lack of engines means that he can be presented at a price lower than his cousin, which is incomplete. I know personally I always want to see more unconventional laptops, and it will be great to get multiple flavors from these tall boys.
