We’re all spending increasingly more time gazing our cellphone screens, and irrespective of how large their screens get, our eyes aren’t getting any higher. TCL’s Nxtpaper sequence goals to supply just a little aid with out switching to full e-paper gadgets. The newest fashions, the TCL 50 and 50 Professional Nxtpaper 5, can do it with a single button.
Effectively, a swap to be exact. Along with giant 6.8-inch shows, these telephones include a devoted “Nxtpaper key,” a swap that permits the display’s monochrome reader mode. Setting it to the primary place will modify the display into Ink Paper Mode, whereas going one notch additional will allow “Max Ink Mode,” turning off notifications to make the cellphone an impromptu e-reader.
The naming could be a bit deceptive. Whereas TCL’s Nxtpaper screens do supply anti-glare coatings and better-than-average distinction, it’s nonetheless LCD tech, not full e-ink. The corporate’s Android-powered tablets are seen as a great center floor between customary screens and Kindle-style gadgets, however they’re nonetheless a compromise design.
Anyway, along with the devoted swap, the TCL 50 Nxtpaper 5 and its Professional variant additionally supply an Eye Care Assistant that may make changes based mostly on ambient mild and make different solutions to assist scale back eye pressure. The “Evening Gentle mode” routinely lowers brightness to the minimal setting and activates the rear flash LED for ambient mild, a neat trick. TCL says that of their most reader mode the telephones get seven days of battery life and 28 days of standby time.
Elsewhere these telephones are fairly primary, with very good 1080p screens (which may deal with 120Hz when not in reader mode) apart. Different highlights embody MediaTek Dimensity 6300 processors, 8GB of RAM (plus “8GB RAM growth,” which appears to be utilizing some devoted storage for digital reminiscence), beefy 5010mAh battery with 33-watt quick charging, and triple rear cameras at 108/8/2 megapixels for main, ultrawide, and macro modes.
The usual TCL 50 Nxtpaper 5 will get an 8MP front-facing digital camera and 256GB of storage, plus no matter you’ll be able to match within the MicroSD card slot. The 50 Professional Nxtpaper 5 will get a 32MP improve on the entrance and double the storage. Each of them launch with Android 14, however TCL is promising upgrades to Android 16 and no less than some type of software program assist by 2029.
In keeping with The Verge, the TCL 50 Nxtpaper 5 will price €229 when it launches in Europe, whereas the upgraded TCL 50 Professional Nxtpaper 5 can be €299 with an included case and a stylus, accessible in Europe and Latin America. Launch dates for both cellphone weren’t given.