Apple to Release 'iPad Fold,' Folding iPhone in 2026: Analyst
If this prediction is accurate, it could mean two long-running Apple rumors are finally coming to fruition.
By Adrianna Nine April 10, 2025
Apple is reportedly planning to introduce a folding iPad and a folding iPhone late next year. Analyst Jeff Pu (of recent iPhone 17 prediction fame) said Wednesday that the brand was planning to begin mass production in Q4 2026, which would allow both products to hit shelves that year or in early 2027. If Pu's claims are accurate, it could mean two long-running Apple rumors are finally coming to fruition.
The folding iPad—often referred to as the iPad Fold—will measure 18.8 inches, according to a research note reviewed by 9to5Mac. Apple's folding iPhone will meanwhile measure 7.8 inches, though Pu didn't say whether that's the entire device or just the display. (The iPhone 16's bezels are so thin that it might not make much of a difference, but it would still be nice to know.)
E Ink goes large with 75-inch high-resolution, color-rich ePaper display
By Paul Ridden
April 14, 2025
E Ink demonstrated a new flavor of its Kaleido color electronic paper technology at ISE 2025 back in February, which is designed for big outdoor displays. Now the company has announced a 75-inch display featuring its color-rich Spectra 6 ePaper.
Despite making great strides in color ePaper over the years, onscreen content still can't match backlit LCD, OLED or other display technologies in terms of color depth and eye-popping visuals. At least not in the consumer space. For digital signage, there is a better breed of E Ink called Spectra.
The latest iteration of this technology – which was launched in 2023 – is specifically designed to "provide full color to improve marketing and advertising performance" while also reducing the environmental impact of digital signage. Depending on the size of the panel, Spectra 6 offers up to 200-pixels-per-inch resolution, 30:1 contrast and an operating range of 0-50 °C (32-122 °F).
There appears to be a race on to launch the first 13.3-inch color ePaper monitor. Dasung currently has an Indiegogo waiting in the wings, but it's looking like Bigme will be first to the line with pre-order status for its B13 device.
Laptops are great tools for mobile productivity, but limited screen space can be a major check in the minus column. It's just not practical to carry a huge computer monitor around with you, but we have seen a number of slim secondary displays as well as multi-display solutions attempt to make life easier.
If you don't want to punish your peepers with multiple LCD displays left and right, ePaper could be an eye-friendly alternative. E Ink monitors are a thing now of course, but 13.3-inch color ePaper displays that can be plugged into a spare port for extra display real estate? Not yet. But that's about to change. As mentioned earlier, Dasung is working on a Paperlike 13K model but that's currently at the "coming soon" stage of a crowdfunder.
The Bigme B13's color ePaper display resolution of 3,200 x 2,400 pixels, with grayscale coming in at 300 ppi and color at 150 ppi
First folding color e-reader breaks cover
By Paul Ridden
April 17, 2025
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Storing hundreds of books on a digital device is a great way to satisfy your thirst for adventure or knowledge without needing lots of shelving in the home. But e-readers don't really feel book-like. Until now. E Ink has partnered with Readmoo to launch the first foldable color e-book reader.
Folding gadgets are very much in vogue at the moment – from phones to tablets and bike helmets to bikes. The basic idea is to start with something large and compact it down for easy transport. The mooInk V developed by Readmoo and E Ink certainly ticks those boxes, but it also offers a more book-like experience than other e-readers out there.
The "world's first foldable color e-book reader" features a Gallery 3 color ePaper display that bends over the hinge to produce 8 inches of screen real estate. Bookworms can take advantage of this tablet-like format to consume digital content such as comics and picture books, but there's no word on whether split screen is supported.
Spacetop puts a massive multi-window workspace in front of your eyes
By Paul Ridden
April 24, 2025
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Back in 2023, tech startup Sightful developed a hardware/software system that put a huge virtual computer screen in front of your eyes. Now the company has dropped the hardware component and tweaked the software to work with AI laptops.
Sightful says that due to the rapid development of computer systems with built-in neural processing, the Spacetop system no longer requires a dedicated hardware component – allowing the company to focus its attention on the software.
As such, the newly-launched Spacetop for Windows will work with laptops designed around a NPU/CPU/GPU architecture – such as the Microsoft Surface Laptop for Business, Lenovo's Yoga Slim, the HP Elitebook and the Swift Go 14 from Acer. That's by no means a comprehensive list, and compatible units are expected to grow quickly – with Canalys reportedly suggesting that 60% of all PCs will be AI-capable by 2027.
A huge multi-window virtual workspace in front of your eyes
Samsung triple-laser projector doubles as desktop touchscreen
By Paul Ridden
April 28, 2025
Back in January, Samsung gave CES attendees a first look at what was claimed to be the "world's most compact triple-laser ultra-short-throw projector and touch interaction device." The Premiere 5 has now launched in the company's home turf.
Though it may seem like a futuristic concept, devices projecting visuals that you can interact with have been around for a while now – as input peripherals and full-blown UST projectors. Yet they're still outliers in the tech marketplace, possibly due to spotty touch performance and issues with shadows.
Samsung could change that with the latest model to wear its high-end Premiere moniker. Touch operation on a tabletop is enabled by an infrared camera and an IR laser module, which track and register up to 10 simultaneous touch points within the projected rectangle, "making content such as games and education more interesting."
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 to Launch in July With Much Thinner Designs
The Galaxy Z Fold7 is rumored to measure just .32 inches (8.2mm) when folded.
By Devesh Beri April 28, 2025
Samsung is set to unveil its latest foldable smartphones, the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Galaxy Z Flip7, in early July 2025. Recent leaks give a clearer picture of what users may see at launch. The Galaxy Z Fold7 is rumored to be much thinner than its predecessor, with reports saying it could measure just 8.2mm when folded.
This would make it the thinnest foldable phone available, even slimmer than the Oppo Find N5, which is 8.9mm folded. This change would also mean Samsung has improved on its previous best, the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition, which is 10.6mm thick.
It is also said to have a larger 8-inch inner display, up from 7.6 inches, and a 6.5-inch cover display, which are the same dimensions as the Special Edition. The main camera is to have a 200MP sensor, but the telephoto and ultra-wide cameras might not get upgrades.
13-inch ePaper tablet drives productivity in color
By Paul Ridden
April 29, 2025
Onyx Boox has launched a color ePaper version of its 13.3-inch Tab X productivity slate, which can be used with the new stylus input or optioned with a keyboard case for a laptop-like experience.
Like its stablemate, the Tab X C features a 13.3-inch display paired with the company's own fast refresh technology for minimal ghosting and snappy response. But this time the e-note is built around Kaleido 3 color E Ink technology with 3,200 x 2,400 grayscale resolution (300 pixels-per-inch) and 1,600 x 1,200 for color (150 PPI). All of this translates to comfortable big-screen e-book reading as well as more familiar ground for those who regularly consume A4-sized documents.
The ePaper tablet has support for stylus input for scribbles, annotations and doodles using a range of Smart Scribe input tools. The supplied Inspire Stylus features 4,096 pressure levels plus tilt sensitivity, and haptic feedback is cooked in too. This pen will need to be charged but this can be done wirelessly by magnetically attaching it to the side of the e-note.
The Tab X C comes with a new Inspire Stylus, which magnetically attaches to the side of the ePaper tablet
Microsoft Unveils New Surface Devices, Including a MacBook Air M4 Rival
The new 13-inch Surface Laptop will go up against Apple's entry-level MacBook Air M4.
By Devesh Beri May 7, 2025
Microsoft has announced two new Surface devices, the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop. Both will have the Copilot+ PC branding and be priced to attract budget-conscious buyers. The Surface Pro, now with a 12-inch display, starts at $799, while the Surface Laptop, featuring a 13-inch screen, starts at $899. Both models have Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Plus eight-core processor, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage in their base configurations.
The Surface Pro's smaller size and fanless design make it more portable, with Microsoft saying users can expect around 12 hours of battery life during web browsing. The Surface Laptop, also more compact than previous versions, is said to last for about 16 hours of web browsing. Both devices have dropped the Surface Connect charging port in favor of USB-C fast charging. The Surface Laptop weighs around 2.7 pounds. The Surface Pro's detachable keyboard and Surface Pen are sold separately, with the keyboard priced at $149.99.
Chinese hardware giant Huawei's latest piece of gear is wild. The MateBook Fold Ultimate Design looks like a 13-inch laptop on the outside, until you open it to reveal an 18-inch foldable screen that's just 7.3 mm thick. For reference, an iPhone 16 has a depth of 7.8 mm.
The idea is to let you use it as a massive touchscreen tablet when it's fully open, and for it to function as a compact laptop with a virtual keyboard when it's sat up at an angle.
Although Lenovo beat it to the punch with the first foldable laptop years ago, Huawei has been in the business of foldables for a while now. Remember the stunning US$2,800 Mate XT trifold phone from last year?
One of the major ticks in the plus column of ePaper is that it only requires power when the content is refreshed. The battery in Samsung's latest display could last for more than 28 weeks if new content is loaded in once per day.
Until relatively recently, the posters or display boards advertising goods and services in stores or eateries have been color prints on paper, usually protected by glass or plastic. Digital imagery is eating into that ad space, but there's obviously the additional cost of powering such systems. E Ink offers a low power alternative.
Samsung has just added a 32-inch flavor to its EMDX series of color E Ink signage solutions. It's fronted by color ePaper based on Spectra 6 E Ink technology at 2,560 x 1,440 pixels, with the company's own algorithm taking care of color accuracy while ensuring content clarity.
If, like me, you use a wireless mouse when working on a laptop, your trackpad probably doesn't see much action. Asus suggested double duty as a second screen back in 2018, and now E Ink is doing the same with some help from Intel.
Like the Asus solution, the color ePaper touch panel can serve as a trackpad for moving a cursor around the main display but can also serve up AI-powered applications. And since it only draws power when the display is refreshed, it should be pretty energy efficient when it performs second-screen duties.
"With the development tools and reference architecture provided by the Intel® Smart Base ecosystem, we've created ultra-slim, energy-efficient modules optimized for AI PC designs," said E Ink's JM Hung. "These modules enable seamless integration of ePaper displays into laptop touchpad areas – delivering crisp visuals, low power consumption, and a novel interactive experience."
Last year, e-reader multinational PocketBook partnered with China's Bigme to launch a color ePaper tablet called the Eo. Now the company has joined forces with Taiwan's Readmoo for another 10.3-inch E Ink slate called the Color Note.
Like the excellent Eo, the Readmoo PocketBook Color Note is based around E Ink's Kaleido 3 color ePaper technology, but is presented as a flexible panel that doesn't include a glass layer. This should result in color imagery that's easier to read.
Color resolution comes in at just 702 x 936 pixels though, from a palette made of 4,096 hues. As such, you're not going to enjoy the kind of vibrant visual experience that you would when using a conventional LCD tablet – but since this is E Ink, it should be kinder to your eyes. Viewing black and white content should be a little sharper, thanks to 1,404 x 1,872 pixels, and the device can dial in 16 shades of grayscale.
Laptop users who need extra display real estate while out and about can now simply push a button or wave a hand. Lenovo's 2022 concept laptop was made real at CES earlier this year, and now the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable is on sale.
The ThinkBook series has always pushed novel envelopes, starting in 2019 with an E Ink cover with stylus input, then a secondary display next to the keyboard followed by a fold-over hinge that allowed the laptop to be used like a tablet, and another where the display could detach from the keyboard base.
All well and good, and innovative when they were first demonstrated, but the Generation 6 concept shown at Tech World 2022 topped them all. Users would start with a highly portable 14-inch ThinkBook. If they found themselves needing more screen, a dedicated key on the keyboard would activate a mechanism that rolled up the display to 16.7 diagonal inches.
Google unveils its $1,799 Pixel 10 Pro Fold
Aisha Malik
9:00 AM PDT · August 20, 2025
At its Made by Google 2025 event, the company unveiled its next foldable, the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, alongside the rest of the new Pixel 10 line. The foldable comes with a new gearless hinge, camera improvements, and a Tensor G5 chip to deliver higher quality AI experiences.
The device starts at $1,799 and is available in Moonstone and Jade. It features 16GB of RAM and up to 1TB of storage.
The phone’s new gearless hinge allows for a larger outer display with smaller bezels, and the hinge is two times more durable than the Pixel 9 Pro Fold’s hinge, Google says. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold is capable of 10+ years of folding.
The Pixel 10 Pro Fold has the largest inner display on a foldable at 8 inches, plus a bigger 6.4-inch outer display thanks to smaller bezels. The 8-inch Super Actual Flex display inside has been re-engineered with resilient ultra-thin glass and dual layers of anti-impact films for added protection against drops.
reMarkable Paper Pro Move Hands-On: A Notebook Lover’s Dream Device?
I've been using the new, smaller color E Ink notetaking device for a few weeks now, and it's definitely convenient for jotting down stuff on the go.
By Raymond Wong Published September 3, 2025 | Comments (6) https://gizmodo.com/remarkable-paper-pr ... 2000652668
Ask any reMarkable E Ink tablet owner, and they will effuse about the mostly glare-free paper-like screen, many document templates, and notetaking experience that nearly mimics writing with pen and paper. People just adore their reMarkable devices. For the e-paper device maker’s next act, it’s going smaller with the Paper Pro Move, a more pocketable version of its Paper Pro color E Ink tablet with a smaller 7.3-inch display.
Priced at $449 and available today, Sept. 3, the Paper Pro Move has dimensions (7.7 x 4.24 inches) that more closely resemble a reporter’s notebook. Even with my small palm, I could comfortably grip the Paper Pro Move in one hand and use the included Marker stylus to write on it. At 230g (0.51 pounds) and 6.5mm thick (0.26 inches thick), it also slipped easily into the chore jackets that I’ve been fond of lately.
Earlier in the year, Bigme launched a doomscrolling smartphone called the HiBreak Pro, which featured an eye-friendly monochrome ePaper display. After much online leaking, the company has now officially added color to the family.
Like its monochrome sibling, this Pro model features a relatively large 6.13-inch display – at least compared to the original HiBreak – but this time it's based around E Ink's Kaleido 3 color ePaper technology. This translates to a resolution of 824 x 1,648 pixels for black/white content, and 412 x 824 for color.
Let's face it, that's not going to be threatening any regular smartphones in terms of crispness and vivid colors, but scrolling through social media feeds or scanning wiki pages at length shouldn't be as punishing for the eyes. And the company's own fast refresh technology is reported to deliver 30 frames per second performance.
Apple Reportedly Planning to Add Touch Screens to MacBook Pro
At the same time, Apple is said to be working on a less expensive MacBook that will use an iPhone processor.
By Devesh Beri September 19, 2025
Apple is reportedly preparing to add touch panels to MacBook models for the first time. The OLED MacBook Pro, which should be ready for mass production by late 2026, will have an on-cell touch screen, says renowned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
This means the line between the MacBook and iPad will be blurred once again, with iPadOS 26 having already turned the iPhone-like tablet UI into one that feels more like the company's laptops. That said, Apple's hotly anticipated affordable MacBook model powered by an iPhone processor will not feature a touch screen, Kuo reports. And Apple isn't expected to release any new MacBook Pro models in 2025—the first year to skip a new Pro since the model was introduced.
A year after the Kindle ebook reader got a color display, Amazon's reimagined its Kindle Scribe note-taking tablet (or should I say notebook? It's confusing) the same way, so you can now jot down ideas, annotate PDFs, and draw in a range of hues.
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft gets a larger 11-inch display (up from 10.2 inches) with what's described as a paper-like textured surface. The glare-free screen does black-and-white content at 300 ppi resolution, and goes down to 150 ppi for color.
That's thanks to an oxide-based color filter layer on the display. It's not going to look as crisp as the regular Scribe, but hopefully the updated font rendering tech should make for a decent reading experience. There's also a front light with an auto-adjusting sensor on board, so the screen should be legible indoors and out.
