TCL 50 Professional NXTPAPER 5G provides in a complete new layer of use

TCL has been launching NXTPAPER telephones for just a few years now. Though none of them have made it to our record of the perfect Android telephones you should buy, we’re constantly impressed with the NXTPAPER tech, which considerably reduces gentle glare, makes textual content in your cellphone simpler to learn, and has a pleasing, paper-like really feel. At present, at IFA 2024, TCL took the wraps off its latest entries within the NXTPAPER household: the TCL 50 Professional NXTPAPER 5G and the TCL 50 NXTPAPER 5G.

Each telephones are mainly the identical, besides the non-Professional mannequin has some barely weaker specs. The 2 star options, although, are shared throughout each units. Clearly, the primary star characteristic is NXTPAPER itself, one thing solely TCL presently gives. The one factor that comes shut is Gorilla Glass Armor, which presently is barely out there on the Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely, however hopefully, that may change in 2025.

The second star characteristic of the brand new telephones is the brand new NXTPAPER Key. This can be a bodily button that means that you can hot-swap right into a minimalist, e-ink-style smartphone expertise, permitting you to have a digital detox.

If this sounds acquainted it’s as a result of TCL launched a really related characteristic to a pill at Cell World Congress earlier this 12 months. Basically, you press the button and hearth up a brand new mode known as Max Ink Mode. This turns off most of your apps (you get to maintain some core apps, reminiscent of for cellphone calls and taking images, in addition to six apps of your selecting) and turns your cellphone into a really pared-down expertise. It will assist you to have a type of digital detox telephones corporations preserve attempting to persuade you to purchase however constructed proper into your “actual” smartphone, negating the necessity for 2 totally different units.

Outdoors of those nifty options you may’t discover anyplace else, TCL can also be introducing AI to its telephones (that is 2024, in any case). Textual content Assistant makes use of AI to translate and summarize textual content you’ve copied, and Voice Memo basically acts as TCL’s model of the Pixel Recorder app.

For specs, that is TCL we’re speaking about, so there’s nothing too noteworthy. The TCL 50 Professional NXTPAPER 5G has a 6.8-inch FHD+ show with a 120Hz refresh charge, a MediaTek Dimensity 6300 chipset, 8GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and a 5,010mAh battery. It has a 108MP main rear digicam sensor, an 8MP ultrawide, and a 2MP macro. It additionally has a headphone jack, which is fairly candy.

The TCL 50 Professional NXTPAPER 5G is coming quickly to Europe for €299 (~$331). TCL assured us that this cellphone won’t come to the US in 2024, however if you happen to learn between the traces there, it’s attainable we might see it right here in 2025.

In the meantime, the non-Professional mannequin begins at €229 (~$254) and can also be coming to the EU, though launch timelines for each telephones are unknown exterior of “someday this 12 months.” Keep tuned.