The year 2022 is about to start, and with it come a glut of new product launches, as consumer electronics maker revamp their lineups and dazzle us with new gear. Well, this big queue is about to get bigger: CES 2022 -- commencing at the very start of the new year -- will bring hoards of new consumer electronics products.
Among those launches, we could see a foldable laptop coming from Asus on January 5. This looks apparent from a teaser that the company has just shared on Twitter. Furthermore, a link in the caption navigates us to a dedicated page that shows a silhouette of a possible foldable device, which we suspect to be a foldable laptop.
But there is nothing to glean from here as the details are kept well under the veil, because, of course, we aren’t too far from the launch.
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If Asus does bring a foldable laptop at the show, this could mark the onset of a completely new category. But Asus won't be first, since Lenovo introduced the first foldable screen laptop dubbed ThinkPad X1 Fold back in 2020.
Dell also introduced its concept foldable PC named Ori the same year, though only Lenovo’s made it to the store shelves. But seeing one more company joining the bandwagon simply suggests a new musical number could start soon.
Up until now, we have seen plenty of foldable smartphones; it looks like foldable display tech has now successfully traversed into PCs as well.
And Asus is making good use of CES 2022 -- the biggest consumer electronics trade show platform -- to unveil what it has achieved.
We can’t deem possible use of cases of a foldable laptop for now, but seeing the growing interest of companies inclining towards the always-on connected laptops, it is fair to surmise what Asus could bring to the table.
Always-Connected PCs (AC-PCs) use cellular data SIM cards and offer internet access no matter where you are. They combine the efficiency of a smartphone’s processor in the body of a laptop computer. We suspect that the laptops with foldable screens will make the always-connected concept handier for the consumers. Today’s laptops are becoming ultraportable than ever and a foldable concept could make them more mobile and thus a natural choice for students and even enterprises.
We expect Asus to throw more light on the subject at the exhibition, which is scheduled to commence on January 5. It is worth mentioning that the launch of the supposed foldable laptop will happen a day after the company refreshes its gaming laptop series at the CES stage.
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