Lenovo unveils next-gen ThinkPad X1 Fold and bizarre ‘wearable show’

As a part of its “vacation product launch,” Lenovo launched 13 new gadgets throughout numerous know-how teams, together with foldable PCs, tablets, transportable shows and extra.

Simply probably the most intriguing announcement was the next-generation ThinkPad X1 Fold. It appears like a marked enchancment over the 2020 X1 Fold, although we’ll have to attend till reviewers get hands-on with the 2022 model to see. Notable enhancements embody a 22 p.c bigger foldable 16-inch OLED panel, a 25 p.c slimmer chassis, and lowered bezels.

The brand new X1 Fold additionally boasts an influence enhance with as much as a twelfth Gen Intel Core i7 CPU, Intel Iris Xe graphics, as much as 32GB of RAM and extra.

Whereas the X1 Fold announcement stands out as the most enjoyable, it’s miles from the strangest. That honor goes to Lenovo’s “transportable show.” Dubbed the ‘Lenovo Glasses T1’, the corporate launched the glasses as a transportable non-public show for “on-the-go content material consumption.”

The concept appears to be that customers join the glasses to a appropriate smartphone, pill or pc through USB-C after which have entry to a “digital monitor” that solely they will see since they’re carrying the glasses. On the one hand, neat. Then again, I actually cannot see anybody utilizing this significantly. Simply making an attempt to think about a enterprise man leaping on the bandwagon and logging into the matrix so he can test emails on his digital monitor makes me giggle.

The corporate’s bulletins have been accomplished with the Lenovo Tab P11 (2nd era) and P11 Professional (2nd era) tablets and the IdeaPad 5i Chromebook.

Each tablets function Android 12, with the Tab P11 Professional additionally providing an 11.2-inch OLED show with Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR, 600-nit brightness, 120Hz refresh price, and 360Hz contact response. All of this runs on the octa-core MediaTek Kompanio 1300T CPU with as much as 8GB of RAM. As for the Tab P11, it has an 11.5-inch LCD panel with a 120Hz refresh price and runs on a MediaTek G99 octa-core CPU with as much as 6GB of RAM.

Lenovo’s new IdeaPad 5i is the corporate’s first 16-inch Chromebook. It has a 2.5K show with a 120Hz refresh price and is powered by a twelfth Gen Intel Core i3 CPU.

Lastly, Lenovo introduced a number of displays and a ThinkBook geared toward companies.

Sadly, Lenovo solely detailed US pricing and availability for the merchandise. You will discover that under:

• ThinkPad X1 Fold: Beginning at $2,499 USD (~$3,280.47 CAD), out there November 2022
• Lenovo T1 Glasses: Worth to be introduced based mostly on availability, early 2023
• Lenovo IdeaPad 5i: value to be introduced later, out there from September 2022
• Tab P11 Professional (2nd era): Beginning at $399 USD (~$523.77 CAD), out there from September 2022
• Tab P11 (2nd era): Beginning at $249.99 USD (~$328.17 CAD), out there from January 2022