TCL goes for totally different with its new professional pill, revealed at CES 2024. There aren’t that many premium tablets past the annual updates from Apple and Samsung, and TCL plans to make its new 14- and 10-inch slates stand out with their show tech, that includes its next-gen NXTPAPER 3.0. It is geared toward putting a middle-ground between e-readers and tablets. It’s not about them being sharper or quicker, however gentler on our very human eyes.
The TCL NXTPAPER 14 Professional’s show options closely deal with eye consolation, with a brand new VersaView interface that may change between a black-and-white reader mode and the usual pill views. The 14-inch 2.8K show (2,880 x 1,800) options the corporate’s new NXTPAPER 3.0, geared toward higher reflecting, actually, how the human eye reads pure paper, however on a digital show. NXTPAPER is TCL’s show tech that tries to supply a pill expertise with a paper-like studying floor. We’ve written about earlier iterations present in units just like the NXTPAPER 11 pill and even a few of its current price range smartphones.
The corporate says its subsequent household of telephones – no fewer than seven, together with the TCL 50 XL NTXPAPER 5G and 50 XE NTXPAPER 5G – may also characteristic NXTPAPER 3.Zero expertise. The NXTPAPER 14 Professional is powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity 8020 chip, with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, which is okay if unremarkable. It’s really all in regards to the display screen.
TCL says its NXTPAPER sequence continues to filter out as much as 61 % of blue gentle to ease the consequences on customers’ eyes. Model 3.Zero is brighter, hitting 700 nits on the 14-inch matte show. A brand new Circularly Polarized Mild (CPL) display screen also needs to gentle up textual content extra naturally, whereas being simpler to learn in daylight. TCL claims this creates a studying expertise nearer to studying books in pure gentle. There’s additionally DC dimming, which also needs to decrease flickering results skilled on some lower-refresh price screens. In pill mode, the NXTPAPER 14 Professional can attain as much as 120Hz refresh charges, and the brand new CPL tech additionally means it maintains legibility even when you’re sporting polarizing lenses.
In the meantime, the Tab 10 NXTPAPER 5G packs a number of the similar show expertise (NXTPAPER 3.0) however on a 10.4-inch, 2K (2,560 x 1,440) display screen. And no devoted viewing mode button. It does, nevertheless, characteristic 5G help.
To essentially ensure you get it, TCL additionally created an Eye Well being Assistant to nag remind you to scale back display screen brightness or maybe not stare at your new pill at midnight. The NXTPAPER 14 Professional additionally has a devoted bodily button for switching between three totally different viewing modes. The pill’s VersaView UI means customers can change between an ordinary pill mode and NXTPAPER mode.
The latter is an e-ink fashion (however not e-ink!) monochrome mode, which not often options on units headed to the US. Nonetheless, this isn’t simply the pill processing the Android interface into grayscale. The interface consists of stripped-down icons, like line drawings, that may nonetheless be differentiated from one another and much more clean house and white backdrops for studying ease. It appears like a focus mode, which I appreciated. You’ve in all probability heard of the ‘hack’ of turning your smartphone system into black-and-white to make the whole lot much less compelling. This simplifies the whole lot 2even extra aggressively whereas making certain that some content material, like video, can nonetheless be performed in full shade. Swiping across the pill, or utilizing TCL’s stylus on the display screen in each modes was fluid, and refresh charges appear a lot improved from the earliest NXTPAPER {hardware}
There aren’t any costs for both of TCL’s new tablets but, however the firm has confirmed that the NXTPAPER 14 Professional can be coming to the US in early 2024. Within the meantime, these are our reigning picks for the most effective tablets you’ll be able to at the moment purchase.
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