TCL made a large leap with the P80 bid of phones – these are the archetypal to person NxtPaper displays based connected OLED panels alternatively of LCD. The cardinal benefits are the accustomed – higher brightness, greater contrast, punchier colors – but the institution made definite that these advantages didn’t travel astatine the outgo of a reduced NxtPaper experience.
The NxtPaper marque has been astir for a fewer years present – it aims to springiness the show a paper-like consciousness and comfortableness erstwhile reading. Yes, e-ink displays beryllium and determination are adjacent immoderate e-ink phones retired there. However, contempt years of improving framework rates and colors, e-ink is inactive better-suited for e-book readers than for smartphones. Speaking of which, the P80 models marque for good e-book readers themselves.
The TCL P80 Pro has a 6.83” OLED show with 3,200 nits highest brightness. Compare that to the TCL NxtPaper 70 Pro, for example, whose LCD lone manages 900 nits successful High Brightness Mode. The quality is tangible – yes, NxtPaper exertion includes a Nano Crystal Shield Glass, which reduces glare, but some the LCD and the OLED displays get the aforesaid advantage. And the other brightness of the OLED sheet makes for overmuch amended outdoor viewing.
TCL P80 Pro
The show has a matte surface, dissimilar astir smartphones retired there, which permission their beforehand solid with a glossy finish. You tin hardly spot it indoors, but erstwhile you spell retired successful the sun, the quality is rather evident – you don’t get the annoying reflection blistery spot that you bash with a glossy display. Instead, the show remains afloat legible. At glancing angles, the matte decorativeness gets overwhelmed, but erstwhile looking astatine it head-on it truly does conjure up associations with speechmaking a portion of paper.
The P80 Pro (along with the Ultra) has the NxtPaper Key – a toggle connected the broadside of the phone. This tin alteration Max Ink oregon Paper Mode (both are customizable). Paper Mode turns the show monochrome – achromatic substance connected a white-to-yellow inheritance (you tin set the colour somesthesia successful the settings). This high-contrast presumption reduces distractions and makes substance easier to read. Max Ink mode uses the aforesaid visuals, but it besides enables a benignant of Do Not Disturb mode. Background apps are enactment to slumber and portion you tin inactive person calls and texts, astir notifications volition beryllium muted (again, nary inheritance apps).
The NxtPaper settings and the NxtPaper cardinal customizations
This besides extends artillery beingness – the P80 Pro is equipped with a 5,800mAh artillery with 45W charging. With Max Ink enabled, the P80 Pro should past you up to 7 days of reading.
Speaking of which, determination is an e-book scholar app simply called “Book”. This app comes pre-loaded with immoderate escaped books to get you started and you tin load your ain too. It has each the accustomed adjustments similar font size, but it besides has immoderate absorbing AI features. For example, the AI tin summarize chapters for you, if you prime a publication backmost up aft a interruption and request a reminder. There’s adjacent an ebook Q&A, truthful you tin inquire questions astir the plot. Additionally, determination is an AI-based text-to-speech strategy that tin crook an mean ebook into an audiobook.
The NxtPaper slider is beneath the measurement rocker and the powerfulness cardinal (which is besides the fingerprint reader)
Moving past the NxtPaper technology, the TCL P80 Pro is simply a solidly built mid-ranger. It has a metallic framework with an IP68 standing (immersible up to 1.5m for 30 minutes) and is MIL-STD-810H compliant. The telephone measures 8.3mm heavy and weighs 192g.
The 6.83” show has slim, symmetrical bezels. The fingerprint is built into the Power fastener connected the side, which is simply a spot antithetic connected an OLED phone, but we’re not complaining.
TCL P80 Pro
We besides handled the TCL P80 Ultra, which we volition research successful a abstracted post. However, we wanted to item the large quality betwixt the Pro and the Ultra is each astir the camera – specifically, the 50MP 3x periscope connected the Ultra. The Pro exemplary lone has a 50MP main (1/1.56” sensor, f/1.9 lens with OIS) and an 8MP ultra-wide, positive a 32MP selfie camera.
The P80 Pro and Ultra are some powered by the Dimensity 7400 Elite, which is simply a proven mid-range chip. It is paired with 8GB of RAM and 256/512GB of retention (UFS 2.2). The telephone launches with Android 16 retired of the container and volition person Android 20 arsenic its last OS update. Security patches volition beryllium issued until December 2032.
TCL P80 Pro
The TCL P80 uses the aforesaid 6.83” OLED show arsenic the Pro and the Ultra – a 1,280 x 2,772px sheet with 120Hz refresh complaint and 10-bit colors with HDR support. However, to support costs down, the vanilla exemplary skips the NxtPaper exertion and has an mean glossy solid instead. This besides means nary NxtPaper slider.
No NxtPaper tech connected the TCL P80
Technically, the P80 besides uses the older Dimensity 7300 chipset, but there’s hardly immoderate quality betwixt it and the 7400. A much tangible quality is the storage, which drops to 128/256GB (UFS 2.2), portion RAM capableness remains astatine 8GB. Also, this exemplary volition person 1 less OS update and volition extremity its beingness connected Android 19 – it volition inactive person information patches until 2032, though.
Another terms chopped comes successful the signifier of a smaller 5,000mAh battery. It has the aforesaid 45W charging support, but endurance volition beryllium lower.
No NxtPaper toggle either
To enactment things into factual numbers, the basal 8/128GB TCL P80 is €350 and the 256GB upgrade is €380. The basal 8/256GB TCL P80 Pro starts astatine €430 and the 512GB upgrade is €500. For the involvement of completeness, the 8/256GB Ultra exemplary starts astatine €550 – that periscope camera costs €120 more.
TCL P80
On the flip side, losing the NxtPaper exertion lone saves you €50 (looking astatine the 256GB P80 and P80 Pro). That is not worthy it arsenic it is what makes this telephone unique.
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