TCL introduced the NxtPaper marque respective years agone and since past the exertion has continued to amended – and to go much cardinal to the TCL experience. Today, the institution debuts the archetypal NxtPaper smartphone featuring an AMOLED display alternatively of an LCD similar erstwhile iterations. The institution is launching 3 intimately related phones contiguous – let’s person a person look.
TCL P80 Ultra
As you tin archer by the name, the TCL P80 Ultra is the “no effort spared” flagship of the series. And we person to commencement with its show arsenic it is its champion and astir unsocial feature.
This is simply a 6.83” AMOLED show with NxtPaper technology, the archetypal of its kind. It aims to present paper-like comfortableness and to support the paper-like look successful immoderate ambient airy conditions. It achieves this successful respective ways.
The TCL P80 Ultra debuts the archetypal NxtPaper show based connected an AMOLED panel
Typical OLEDs usage linear polarization filters – however, TCL says that circular polarization is much earthy and adjacent though you can’t spot the difference, you bash consciousness it. There is 1 mode to spot it, really – immoderate phones person problems with polarized glasses, but not the P80 Ultra acknowledgment to its circular polarization.
You are astir apt acquainted with show sub-pixel arrangements. Displays usually trust connected these sub-pixels being tiny capable that you can’t spot them individually – they benignant of blur together. However, TCL added a homogenizing movie to the display, which mixes the Red, Green and Blue colors to execute achromatic light. Additionally, the institution has brought the magnitude of bluish airy down to conscionable 2.9% without affecting representation quality. TCL says its Nano Crystal Shield Glass is the champion anti-glare solution connected the market.
The galore eye-comfort features of the NxtPaper technology
As for the show itself, it’s a 6.83” AMOLED sheet with 1.5K solution and 120Hz refresh rate. It is perfectly calibrated and has 100% DCI-P3 coverage. The AMOLED sheet is brighter than the LCDs utilized successful erstwhile NxtPaper phones and tin scope a highest of 3,200 nits.
The TCL P80 Ultra is powered by the Dimensity 7400 Elite. The chipset is paired with 8GB of RAM (LPDDR5) and 256GB oregon 512GB of retention (UFS 3.1). The telephone runs connected a 5,800mAh artillery that supports 45W wired charging.
The TCL P80 Ultra runs connected a Dimensity 7400 Elite chipset and a 5,800mAh battery
The Ultra has the champion cameras of the P80 series. This includes a 50MP main camera (with OIS), a 50MP 3x periscope (0.64µm pixels, f/2.4 lens with OIS) and an 8MP ultra-wide. The selfie camera has a 32MP sensor.
The TCL P80 Ultra has a 50MP 3x periscope camera
All NxtPaper phones person a NxtPaper slider connected the broadside – it tin beryllium utilized to activate your preferred e-reader mode, including the Max Ink mode. This mode does 3 things. First, it applies integer detox – it kills astir notifications (except for calls and texts) and puts inheritance apps to sleep. Second, without inheritance apps, artillery beingness is extended for up to 7 days of immersive reading. And third, it offers casual entree to the e-reader app – TCL has pre-loaded the telephone with implicit 500 books to get you started.
All NxtPaper phones person this slider
As with immoderate 2026 phone, determination are a big of AI features. All the accustomed suspects are present (see below), but the astir thematic 1 is AI-enhanced Reading. This tin crook a regular e-book into an audio publication that you tin perceive to – it tin adjacent crook the books into much of a podcast than an audio book.
The TCL P80 Ultra is loaded with AI features
The TCL P80 Ultra comes successful 3 colors: Sunlit Gold, Burgundy and Midnight Blue. The telephone has an aluminum framework and its assemblage is rated IP68 for particulate and h2o resistance, positive it passed MIL-STD-810H daze tests.
TCL P80 Ultra colour options
For pricing and motorboat details, spot below. Note that the Ultra is eligible for 4 OS upgrades and 7 years of information patches.
TCL P80 Ultra highlights
TCL P80 Pro
The TCL P80 Pro is astir the aforesaid phone, but that it lone has dual cameras. This includes a 50MP 1/1.56” main (with OIS) and the 8MP ultra-wide, but not the 3x periscope.
TCL P80 Pro highlights
The remainder is the aforesaid – crucially, the 6.83” NxtPaper AMOLED show with 1.5K resolution, 120Hz refresh complaint and 3,200 nits brightness is precisely the aforesaid arsenic the Ultra's. And truthful is the Dimensity 7400 Elite with 8GB of RAM and 256GB/512GB storage. The aforesaid goes for the 5,800mAh artillery with 45W charging too.
TCL P80
TCL wanted to bring the high-quality AMOLED sheet to the widest assemblage possible, truthful it designed a cheaper mentation of the P80 Pro – the TCL P80 is the aforesaid telephone but without the NxtPaper technology.
TCL P80 highlights
This means you get the aforesaid 6.83” sheet with 1.5K solution and 120Hz refresh rate. It’s a agleam show with 3,200 nits highest brightness and it has 100% sum of the DCI-P3 colour space.
Note that the basal retention connected this exemplary is 128GB and the maximum configuration is 256GB. Unlike the Ultra, the P80 and P80 Pro are getting lone 3 OS updates and the aforesaid 7 years of information patches.
Pricing & availability
TCL is launching the P80 trio today. The TCL P80 Ultra starts astatine €550 for the basal 8/256GB model, portion the Pro exemplary (without the periscope camera) is implicit €100 cheaper portion offering the aforesaid show quality. Finally, the vanilla P80 is cheaper still, though that is partially owed to the little basal retention (doubling the retention to 256GB costs lone €30, though).
TCL P80 bid prices
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