We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. Yes, all laptops fold, but Lenovo’s new foldable ThinkPad X1 concept is unlike any laptop you’ve ever seen—it folds across the screen. It incorporates not only a foldable OLED display that takes up almost the entire interior surface area, but also a standalone wireless keyboard and a built-in kickstand. We got an early up-close peek at it. The concept, unveiled this week, is the latest in a long line of tech prototypes equipped with foldable panels. Lenovo has been working on such devices for years, with Arimasa Naitoh, one of the inventors of the ThinkPad, hinting at the prospect of a foldable laptop back in 2017. The company has even dabbled with the nearly-impossible-to-solve problem of creating a display that bends both outward and inward. The foldable 13-inch ThinkPad only bends one way, which means you can’t use it while it’s fully folded. It also doesn’t have a final name, a price, or a firm release date, though Lenovo says that it plans to sell it as part of its ultra-premium ThinkPad X1 line at some point in 2020. Another key unknown is how durable it would be. Early foldable Lenovo prototypes were clearly fragile when the company showed them off to the media in 2016, and the introduction of Samsung's Galaxy Fold smartphone was recently derailed over reliability concerns. Lenovo says, though, it will test this hinge to double the number of folds that a typical laptop would be subjected to. What we do know is that if Lenovo intends the concept to be a part of the ThinkPad line, it will need to be at least as good as existing ThinkPad products, prized by business road warriors for their rugged construction and reliability. We also know that the foldable ThinkPad has versatility in spades, based on the few minutes that the company let me handle it. Let's take a look.
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We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. Yes, all laptops fold, but Lenovo’s new foldable ThinkPad X1 concept is unlike any laptop you’ve ever seen—it folds across the screen. It incorporates not only a foldable OLED display that takes up almost the entire interior surface area, but also a standalone wireless keyboard and a built-in kickstand. We got an early up-close peek at it. The concept, unveiled this week, is the latest in a long line of tech prototypes equipped with foldable panels. Lenovo has been working on such devices for years, with Arimasa Naitoh, one of the inventors of the ThinkPad, hinting at the prospect of a foldable laptop back in 2017. The company has even dabbled with the nearly-impossible-to-solve problem of creating a display that bends both outward and inward. The foldable 13-inch ThinkPad only bends one way, which means you can’t use it while it’s fully folded. It also doesn’t have a final name, a price, or a firm release date, though Lenovo says that it plans to sell it as part of its ultra-premium ThinkPad X1 line at some point in 2020. Another key unknown is how durable it would be. Early foldable Lenovo prototypes were clearly fragile when the company showed them off to the media in 2016, and the introduction of Samsung's Galaxy Fold smartphone was recently derailed over reliability concerns. Lenovo says, though, it will test this hinge to double the number of folds that a typical laptop would be subjected to. What we do know is that if Lenovo intends the concept to be a part of the ThinkPad line, it will need to be at least as good as existing ThinkPad products, prized by business road warriors for their rugged construction and reliability. We also know that the foldable ThinkPad has versatility in spades, based on the few minutes that the company let me handle it. Let's take a look.