Samsung Flex Note: demonstration of a foldable screen PC at CES 2022 – Frandroid

The foldable makes its arrival on PC at CES 2022. Samsung is demonstrating it with the Samsung Flex Note.

Can we extend the concept of the foldable smartphone to that of a foldable PC? As a good screen manufacturer, this is what Samsung Display wants to demonstrate with the presentation of the Samsung Flex Note. For the firm, it is a question of showing all its know-how to partners to equip future PCs with foldable screens with its own solutions. This is important, because for the launch of the ZenBook 17 Fold Oled, CES’s first foldable PC, Asus went to the Chinese BOE side to equip itself.

A tablet concept transforming into an ultraportable

The concept of Samsung is also close to what Asus unveiled at CES 2022. This is to allow a 13-inch ultraportable screen considered narrow to deploy into a giant 17-inch tablet in landscape format.

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Samsung imagines that we could use the lower part of the screen to alternately display a virtual keyboard for navigation or custom controls for a video game. A demonstration which is for the moment less convincing than the promised transformation of the smartphone. The touchscreen has never become the default mode of interaction on PCs, especially for a screen that you do not look directly at. On the contrary, the physical keyboard is preferred by users, and it will be necessary to see how manufacturers manage to juggle between foldable design and product ergonomics.

There is also the issue of the operating system. We will have to wait for this first generation of machine to see how Windows 11 will adapt to this new design. Microsoft does not appear to have designed its new system for PCs with foldable screens. It may therefore be necessary to wait for a major update of the system which is already struggling to offer a perfectly convincing touch experience.

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