Lenovo is not necessarily known as a major player in the mobile space, so it was a bit of a surprise to see the company expanding its presence at MWC 2025. This year’s Lenovo booth at the show was chock full of new product announcements and a bunch of new concepts. Lenovo is one of the biggest computing vendors in the world and it’s known for taking some of the biggest risks as a product innovator. At MWC 2025, the company made some major splashes that I thought were noteworthy.
Prototypes And Concepts: Folding Displays, AI Accessories, 3-D Computing
One of the biggest concepts that people got excited about was the ThinkBook Flip AI PC concept. This is an 18.1-inch outwardly folding display that folds back into a 13-inch laptop when the display is folded in half. This means that the display can be used for presentations or other uses where the extend vertical dimension is needed, while maintaining a compact 13-inch footprint. In my view, this is one of the more exciting uses of a foldable display in PCs because people like the portability of 13-inch laptops, but not necessarily the actual size of the display. Having a foldable display on a laptop could significantly increase productivity without affecting portability, which is key for a mobile platform.
Because this display is an OLED (like almost all foldables), users also benefit from improvements to color and contrast in comparison to other types of screens. While Lenovo hasn’t assigned this concept a price or a launch date, people can buy something similar in June when the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable comes out for $3,499. (For more on that, see my earlier analysis of Lenovo’s 2025 PC lineup.)
Magic Bay is a concept for Lenovo’s accessories lineup that it announced at MWC. The Magic Bay Dual Display adds two 13.3-inch attachable displays to an already-available 13-inch Lenovo notebook. This would turn any workstation laptop into a portable productivity powerhouse. It would connect to Lenovo’s ThinkBook 16p, which delivers the computing and primary display. As someone who travels a lot and misses his triple-monitor setup from home, being able to mimic that setup, even at a smaller scale, would make for huge improvements to my productivity, and I’m sure I’m not alone in that.
The Magic Bay second display is a smaller 8-inch model that attaches to the side of the monitor to give certain apps a place to live off the main screen without taking up too much space. Other concepts are the Magic Bay Tiko and Tiko Pro — smaller displays designed to run smaller widget-like AI applications. The Tiko reminds me a lot of the AI buddy that the company had shown previously at Lenovo Tech World, but with a bit more polish and connected to a laptop rather than a small form factor PC. Clearly the Magic Bay concepts are explorations for Lenovo around how displays can work as accessories. It will be interesting to see which ones end up as actual products; my money is on the Tiko Pro and possibly the Dual Display for mobile power users.
Lenovo also showed off a trio of 3-D computing concepts, including a 3-D display with directional 3-D backlight technology for professional applications. It also showed off its AI Ring concept again (as it did at Tech World); the ring uses gestures to manipulate and control 3-D objects. And finally, the company demonstrated a hybrid 34-inch curved monitor that offered a glasses-free 2-D and 3-D experience for both content and immersive virtual meetings — without needing a headset.
Many of these concepts leverage new display technologies or form factors to try to adapt to the ever-changing definition of what it means to be an AI PC. While we are still quite a way away from every PC being an AI PC, Lenovo seems to be exploring how display technologies and accessories can enable new experiences enhanced by AI through facial tracking, hand tracking or other technologies.
New Lenovo Laptops
Lenovo also announced major updates to the ThinkPad X13 Gen 6, T14 and T14s Gen 6 along with the T16 Gen 4, E14 Gen 7 and E16 Gen 3 and the ThinkBook 16p Gen 6 and 14 2-in-1 Gen 5. The ThinkBook 16p Gen 6 — the model that powers the Magic Bay concepts — will start at €3,000 and will be available in June. Most of these laptops have April, May or June availability and range from €679 up to €2,000, excluding the ThinkBook 16p Gen 6. The new ThinkPad laptops adopt the latest Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen processors, while the ThinkBook 16p also adopts the new Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics announced earlier this year. Most of these changes are processor upgrades and minor design updates with Intel’s Core Ultra 200 series, AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 series and Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series.
Lenovo’s Innovation Continues
Lenovo continued to explore new ideas and concepts at MWC 2025, and the company continues to show new and interesting ways of integrating AI with new display technologies. While I don’t expect that we will see many of these concepts come to market, possibly ever, there will likely be a few that end up as products and build on the learnings and feedback from the prototypes we see today.
I continue to be impressed by Lenovo’s tolerance for risk and trying out new things — or even refining old ideas with a new twist, like the Magic Bay Dual Display accessory. For example, many observers were shocked by Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, because while it looked like just another prototype laptop, in reality it will be commercially available later this year. These prototypes can be expensive to develop and produce, even in small quantities, but the company is clearly looking for feedback from the market with these ideas, and I can firmly say that some of these ideas might have legs.
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