TCL is upgrading its easy-on-the-eyes glare-free NXTPAPER display tech with AMOLED

TCL is upgrading its easy-on-the-eyes glare-free NXTPAPER show tech with AMOLED

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TCL has been making smartphones and tablets at a powerful clip for years. Whereas most corporations have centered on foldable show tech – and TCL has dabbled – the main focus has been on its NXTPAPER screens. Geared toward being friendlier on the eyes, and pitched as a tool someplace between e-ink slates and conventional tablets, NXTPAPER has regularly been upgraded and refined, reaching an apex at CES 2026 earlier this yr with the Kindle Scribe-alike, the Be aware A1 NXTPAPER and its newest smartphone, the NXTPAPER 70 Professional.

At MWC, simply a few months later, it is making ready for a serious leap ahead on future telephones and tablets. It has been introduced (and backed up with tech demos) that it is growing AMOLED NXTPAPER shows, aiming to mix the attention consolation advantages of TCL’s present shows with flagship visible efficiency. This concerned essentially redesigning and re-engineering the show structure. Nonetheless, it ought to tackle the most important issues with present LCD-based NXTPAPER, corresponding to mediocre brightness, poor out of doors efficiency, and boring colours.

This NXTPAPER AMOLED display, nicely, it seems like AMOLED:

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On the showfloor at CES, the corporate had a number of demo gadgets showcasing the brand new display expertise’s brightness. Whereas nonetheless pictures do not actually do it justice, it is spectacular, and the anti-glare impact appears premium in comparison with third-party anti-glare protecting movies.

TCL says its incoming AMOLED show — it hasn’t introduced a tool but — will attain 3,200 nits of brightness. For reference, TCL’s 70 Professional topped out at a mere 900 nits. TCL says it should additionally characteristic 120Hz refresh charges, one hundred pc coloration gamut protection, and blue gentle discount that may go as little as 2.9 p.c, which is 15 p.c lower than current NXTPAPER shows.

The corporate plans to launch an AMOLED NXTPAPER smartphone earlier than the tip of the yr.