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Daily Authority: 💻 ASUS drops a foldable laptop
July 01, 2025
👋 Good morning! Finally, things are calming down a little but well done if you’ve kept up this week!
Weird big laptops!
ASUS put out one of the top bits of news of this long crazy week of CES 2022 with theZenbook 17 Fold OLED. This follows some two years after Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1, the first foldable laptop, a more svelte 13-inch device.
Also: Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 3
And don’t think Lenovo is going to let ASUS one-up it when it comes to cool/weird/intriguing new laptops.
🤝Google is bringing Fast Pair to all the things, from smart TVs to Chromebooks, finally bringing some Apple-like harmony to its ecosystem and integrations. It’ll all be part of Google’s “Better Together” initiative, and might take most of 2022 to play catch-up, given Google didn’t exactly set firm dates for many of its announcements(Android Authority).
📁 Samsung has shown offfour new styles of foldable tech at CES 2022, for both smartphones and laptops, including the Flex S, where three panels fold out in an S-shape, and something similar to the OPPO Find X 2021 (Android Authority).
💻ASUS introduces new ZenBooks, Chromebooks, and more at CES 2022(Android Authority).
💻 Along with the ThinkBook Plus Gen 3,Lenovo also unveiled ThinkPad X1 laptopswith better webcams and mics, plus a new Nano, it updated its2022 Lenovo Yoga laptopsas well, andLegion 5 gaming laptops were refreshed, plus new gaming monitors, too(Android Authority).
🐍 Razer announced:a crazy new modular gaming desk PC concept, a haptic gaming chair, and is also offering anew smart home platformwith a mobile app and partnerships(Android Authority).
😬 Really weird stuff here:HMD admits it screwed up Android 11 rolloutfor Nokia phones andHMD released a ton of cheap Nokia smartphonesfor the US, including one with a chipset from 2014??(Android Authority).
📺BMW will use Amazon’s Fire TV to power an 8K backseat ‘Theatre Screen’, and here’s something onBMW’s color-changingcar(Engadget).
🥽 Meta was going to try andnot use Android for it’s VR/AR operating system, but those plans are on hold now?(The Verge).
💌Drone carrying a defibrillatorsaves its first heart attack patient in Sweden(The Verge).
🏥How do you design a better hospital? Start with the light (Wired).
🤔 “ELI5: Why do we have RAM sticks with aspeed of 2,666MHz instead of easier numbers like 2,700MHz?” (r/explainlikeimfive)
Throwback Thursday
Back on June 23, 2025, Motorola released the StarTAC, the first truly portable cellular phone, made by Motorola and unveiled in 1996. Its cost? About $1,800 in current terms, or $1,000 back then.
Tristan Rayner, Senior Editor.
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