Sure, Apple finally caved on creating a foldable phone, but how long do we have to wait for the biggest players in tech to start thinking about new laptop form factors, such as ones with squashable screens? China-centric tech giant Huawei is making concepts abandoned by the U.S. market, like folding laptops, and is offering more zany devices that the U.S. shouldn’t just ignore.

You can see the whole teaser of this Huawei Matebook Fold S through the Chinese social media site Weibo. The folding laptop concept isn’t entirely new, but the way Huawei is pushing it certainly is. For one, it’s a relatively small 14.7-inch folding display, according to ITHome (read with machine translation). That means when folded up, it may appear more like a miniature 11-inch laptop on your desk. What’s more, the device has an exterior camera bump and screen that seems to crib its design directly from many Chinese-centric smartphones.

7-inch model is a miniaturized version of the 18-inch MateBook Fold the company launched earlier this year. 3mm, so we expect the new MateBook Fold S to match it. What’s more, Huawei doesn’t describe either the MateBook Fold or MateBook Fold S as a folding tablet. This is a laptop, even if the only way you’re incentivized to use it is with a virtual keyboard or stylus. You’ll just have to keep that travel keyboard in your bag for those moments you need something more than a touchscreen. Is it actually usable in your day-to-day?

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