WOW FACTOR
Of course, the wow factor of a foldable display is best
experienced when it’s folded. You could use a part-
folded Horseshoe Bend in several orientations,
including opening it like a book and displaying two
separate apps side by side; or you could use it like a
conventional laptop, with the lower half displaying a
virtual onscreen touchpad and keyboard and the top
half displaying the main screen content.
For all of this to work smoothly, however, software
innovation is required. Microsoft is working on a
version of Windows 10 called Windows 10X that will let
foldable-screen PCs recognize and adapt to the folding
screen and its orientation, but it’s still under
development. Lenovo has created its own stopgap
measure, in the meantime, which allows these sorts of
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in full-screen mode during the demo, with a single app
window taking up the entire folded display, as well as in
a keyboard-overlaid-on-the-screen mode. The other
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One way you
could use the
Horseshoe
Bend is by
opening it like
a book and
displaying two
apps side
by side.