Lenovo shows ThinkPad laptop with foldable OLED screen that will be released in 2020
Lenovo has made a working concept of a laptop cum tablet with a foldable 13.3 “screen with OLED panel. The ThinkPad laptop should be released in 2020 in the ThinkPad X line of high-end laptops.
Fully unfolded, the foldable ThinkPad X1 is a tablet with a 13.3″ screen with 4:3 aspect ratio. The device can be bent in half to create a laptop with 9.6″ screen and virtual keyboard. When folded, the tablet-cum-laptop is a lot smaller than, for example, a regular 13.3″ tablet or 11.6″ laptop.
The flexible OLED screen is from LG Display and the resolution is 1920×1440 pixels. The ThinkPad contains an unspecified Intel processor and runs Windows. At the beginning of this year, reports appeared that Microsoft was making Windows 10 suitable for foldable laptops, as Google has done with Android for foldable smartphones.
The Lenovo prototype also has an infrared camera so that there is support for the Windows Hello biometric login method. There are also two USB-C ports and stereo speakers. Lenovo describes, among other things, how watching video, following social media and typing emails on the road and under other circumstances should be made easier due to the compact size of the ThinkPad X1 in question.
Lenovo already showed a non-working concept of a laptop with a folding screen in 2017. Samsung Display is also working on OLED panels for laptops that can be bent. Intel announced last weekend that the arrival of laptops with foldable screens will take another two years, but Lenovo now mentions 2020 as the year in which the ThinkPad X1 with foldable screen should be available.