The Morning After: Lenovo made an e-ink pill to rival Amazon’s Scribe | Engadget

The CES conveyor belt of PCs doesn’t let up. Lenovo has been busy. Let’s begin with its newest YogaBook, the dual-screen YogaBook 9i. Instead of folding like a traditional laptop computer, this… factor unfurls a display atop one other, with a slimline keyboard on the backside. Thankfully, in addition to the keyboard and stylus equipment, there’s a kickstand to make sure these two 13.3-inch 2.8K OLED shows keep in place. There’s an unbelievable quantity of flexibility right here. You can have the screens unfolded like a guide, stacked atop one another or as a traditional laptop computer, with the decrease display displaying the keyboard.

Then there’s the $400 Smart Paper pill. An unashamed stab at rivaling Amazon’s Scribe e-ink pill, there’s a display to write down and annotate on and a battery-less stylus you may holster within the case. There are 9 pen settings (corresponding to pencil, ballpoint and marker) and over 4,000 strain sensitivity ranges to make sure your sketches come out as you meant. Lenovo’s Smart Paper can convert your handwriting into textual content, and you need to use key phrase searches to seek out what you’re searching for – one thing Amazon’s model lacks. Conversely, although, Lenovo received’t have the library of Kindle books to scribble notes on – these are two distinct choices.

Oh, you wished a ? Well, Lenovo isn’t carried out: It additionally revealed a brand new ThinkBook Plus that twists and turns to modify between e-ink and OLED screens. In brief, it’s a little bit of each. Check out our full impressions and spec rundowns right here. We’ll be again Monday with extra CES protection, together with Engadget’s Best of CES winners.

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