{"id":118426,"date":"2025-09-04T14:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118426\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:33:07","slug":"tcls-new-phone-is-what-you-want-if-you-stare-too-long-at-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118426\/","title":{"rendered":"TCL\u2019s New Phone Is What You Want if You Stare Too Long at Screens"},"content":{"rendered":"

TCL, the company whose bread and butter is putting giant TVs in living rooms for relatively cheap, seems to understand many of us are tired of looking at screens. The company\u2019s new phone promises to offer all the peak features mobile buyers expect with a display that can become an e-reader with the flip of a switch. And before you ask\u2014no, sorry\u2014you can\u2019t buy it in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Announced at IFA 2025<\/a>, the NXTPaper 60 Ultra is the sequel to last year\u2019s budget 50 NXTPaper phone<\/a>. The phone\u2019s main raison d\u2019\u00eatre is the switch that eliminates all color on the screen and turns the device into a pseudo e-reader. The \u201cMax Ink Mode\u201d limits which apps you can use<\/a> down to the few reading apps on your device. Changing the mode includes a small animation where the color literally bleeds from the page, helping you slip into a hardcore reading mode flow state. It\u2019s an easy switch you can use to cut out notifications and focus in on what you\u2019re reading.<\/p>\n

\"TclThe new NXTPaper phone is supposed to offer \u201cnatural light\u201d that\u2019s easier on the eyes. \u00a9 TCL <\/p>\n

The updated NXTPaper 60 Ultra phone has a larger 7.2-inch display built with the new NXTPaper 4 technology that the company introduced back at CES 2025<\/a>. This is a kind of matte display tech that TCL claims has a paper-like texture and reduces blue light; the light is supposed to be closer to natural illumination than what you normally get from a screen. The new display type is supposed to offer \u201czero flicker,\u201d which implies there won\u2019t be the frame rate fluctuations prone to other OLED or LCD screens, which can be hard on people\u2019s eyes. The NXTPaper 60 Ultra will also work with TCL\u2019s own T-Pen stylus.<\/p>\n

Other than the screen, the big upgrade is the addition of a 50-megapixel main camera, alongside a 50-megapixel periscope telephoto. TCL also promises users will have the MuseFilm filter on their photos to recreate some film-like qualities. It likely won\u2019t be nearly as good as Fujifilm\u2019s film simulation \u201crecipes\u201d<\/a>, but it\u2019s something unique beyond the average iPhone\u2019s \u201cNoir\u201d and \u201cDramatic\u201d filters.<\/p>\n

The NXTPaper 60 Ultra will cost 449 euros, equivalent to around $524. The kicker is you can\u2019t buy the device in the U.S. Once again, buyers in North America are stuck with all the usual suspects: Samsung, Google, Apple, plus the odd OnePlus device. Perhaps one day I\u2019ll have the chance to buy a weird pseudo-e-paper phone or a crazy foldable without acquiring a device from overseas. Until then, I\u2019ll keep staring at my blue light-emitting devices until my eyes fall out of my sockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TCL, the company whose bread and butter is putting giant TVs in living rooms for relatively cheap, seems…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6384,64,63,81326,203,10301,30215,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-118426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-ifa-2025","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-smartphones","14":"tag-tcl","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}