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ALIENWARE’SHANDHELD PC
It’s only at the prototype stage,but the Alienware Concept UFOisdripping with potential.
It’s more or lessaNintendoSwitchforPCgames: removable controllers attachtoeither
sideofan 8in display,which also hasakickstandtoact asaportable monitor.Itcan also
outputtoalarger screen, like botharegular PC and–again–aSwitch.
It’s an exciting idea thatavoids the connection issuesofstreaming gamestoamobile
device,and could make PC gaming more accessibletothose who don’t wantabigcase
and monitor in their house.Even if the Concept UFOonlyever remainsaconcept, it’s an
intriguing one.
FOLDING SCREENS
FORLAPTOPS
Foldable displays might have gotoffto a
spluttering start on phones, but that didn’t
stopLenovo,Dell and Intel all showingoff
laptops with bendy screens.
TheLenovo ThinkPad X1Fold (above) and
Dell Concept Ori are both quitesmall in their
standard configurations, where the lower half
ofthe screen is occupiedbyakeyboard or
drawing space while thetophalfacts as a
conventional display.However,fold them flat
and flip them sideways, and theycan become
eitheraspacious tablet oracompactall-in-one
PC if youaddamouse and keyboard. The
Intel Horseshoe Bend prototype is very
similar,butabitlarger,somight be more
comfortabletouseinaregular laptop mode.
SAMSUNG’S PREMIUM
CHROMEBOOK
There have beenafairfew
Chromebooks that gofor
sleeker designs and
greater power than the
original concept –
cheap,cloud-based
computingfor
everyone–might
have calledfor.The
Galaxy Chromebook,
howevver,isthe most
luxurioous ChromeOS laptop yet.
Co-developed with Intel, it’s the firstofits kindtoinclude an
AMOOLLEEDdisplay,anda4Kone at that, whilea10th-gen Core i5
prooccessoorrenables Wi-Fi6connectivity while also aimingfor
highher thhan usual performance.Oneofthe most surprising
speccss sstheoopttiionofa1TB SSD,as Chromebookstypically go
with mmallerrstorage ddriivveessttoofifitwith the cloudfocus.
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SSSamsung Galaxy S10 Lite(right) and
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rrrevealed, but we do know the specs.
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6.7in display,running at 2,400x1,200,
and like the main Galaxy S10 includes
atriple-lens camera. This includes a
48-megapixel main sensor,a
5-megapixel macro sensor and a
12-meegapixel wide-anglesensor.The
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InJanuary,theConsumerElectronicsShowonceagain
gracedLasVegaswiththeworld’sbiggest(andmosteclectic)
showcaseofnewtech.Hereareourhighlights–notcounting
theanimatronicdogsorplant-basedpork
CES2 020
