TCL’s new Nxtpaper phones have a dedicated button for maximum monochrome

TCL is launching 2 caller midrange Nxtpaper phones with matte displays designed to beryllium casual connected your eyes. The TCL 50 Pro Nxtpaper 5G and 50 Nxtpaper 5G travel a mates of fund models launched earlier this twelvemonth with 1 important diagnostic update: a fastener that puts the show into — and I punctuation — “Max Ink Mode.” Hell yes, gimme that quasi-E Ink mode to the max. They’re launching successful Europe first, and I person my fingers crossed that they’ll travel to the US later, too.

The “Nxtpaper key” is simply a two-stage slider that puts the show into a reader-friendly monochrome mode mimicking e-ink. Flipping Max Ink Mode connected besides silences notifications and renders app icons successful a wireframe benignant arsenic if you were utilizing an E Ink display, which is friggin’ adorable. This mode besides extends artillery life, and TCL claims you tin get up to 7 days’ worthy of speechmaking retired of it — astir similar carrying astir a regular telephone that you tin crook into a Boox Palma with the flip of a switch.

Outside of Max Ink Mode, some phones connection a large 6.8-inch 1080p surface with up to 120Hz refresh rate. They some see a 108-megapixel main rear camera and a generous 5,010mAh battery. The Pro exemplary includes an upgraded 32-megapixel selfie camera and 512GB of storage, portion the non-Pro mentation features an 8-megapixel selfie camera and 256GB of storage. The 50 Pro is besides offered with a mates of optional accessories: a flip lawsuit and a stylus. Outside of those fewer differences, the 2 devices look to beryllium fundamentally the same.

The TCL 50 Pro Nxtpaper volition beryllium disposable successful Europe and Latin American markets for €299 with the optional accessories. The TCL 50 Nxtpaper costs €229 and volition beryllium disposable successful Europe.