LENOVO Went All In Last Year

Lenovo always brings us several interesting innovative devices and it did not let us down for 2023. Let's start with the Lenovo Tab Extreme, which follows in the paths of other big tablets. It's made for entertainment, but the accessories help you use it however you want.

It has a 14 and a half inch OLED screen with a 3k resolution, so you have great contrast and color in detail. Plus it has a 120 hertz refresh rate for smoother motion. It supports Dolby vision and Dolby Atmos for its eight speaker audio system with four woofers and four tweeters split between the left and right. So it should be great for streaming, for gaming, and for game streaming.

The accessories turn this into a nice little productivity machine, too. With this full-size detachable backlit keyboard and not so full-size touchpad, it attaches magnetically and it has a hinged design. You can tilt the tablets up and it has an interesting stand. You can remove the keyboard and you still have a kickstand that works vertically or horizontally for the tablet.

You get a pen that magnetically attaches to the back for storage and charging. The Extreme is expected to be available later in 2023.

Here's competition for amazon's kindle scribe. It is Lenovo's Smart Paper. It's an e-ink display with a paperlike feel for reading and writing. The tablet has a bunch of menu options like your book library, a bookstore and notebooks, and you can use the included pen to take notes or scribble in the margins of a book and the pen is sensitive to tilt and pressure. Lenovo made it easy to make screen adjustments too.

You can make reading more comfortable with brightness and color temperature sliders. The Smart Paper with the pen and cover is also expected later this year for four hundred dollars, but that's not where Lenovo stopped with e-ink displays.

This year, Lenovo updated its Thinkbook Plus for 2023. It's a dual display laptop with an e-ink screen on the outside, and a regular display on the inside.

Now that inside display is a 13-inch OLED touchscreen and outside is a 12 inch color e-ink touchscreen. It's now called the Thinkbook plus twist because it uses a rotating center hinge. So you can swap between the two displays. Both displays are pen enabled.

You can do things like jot down a quick note in a meeting without opening the laptop. The best part of having the displays rotate, though, is likely going to be the battery life savings you'll get from using the e-ink instead of the OLED. The Thinkbook plus twist is expected to be available this June.

Rounding things out is another dual display laptop, the Yoga Book 9I. It has two 13inch OLED touchscreens connected by one of Lenovo's rotating sound bar hinges that you'll find on its regular Yoga 9i two in one. The yoga books design lets you use it as two separate displays horizontally and vertically, or you can turn the bottom display into a touchscreen keyboard and trackpad. Or you can use it as one big display.

A detachable bluetooth keyboard is also included, and it can be magnetically attached on top of the bottom display, or used separately. Lenovo designed a smart pen stylus to be used with the yoga book and both it and the keyboard wrap up into a nice bundle with a cover that doubles as a stand for the two in one. The yoga book 9i is expected to ship in june, starting at twenty one hundred dollars and that's just the start of what Lenovo announced for the show.