TCL users gain a major display upgrade, the company says, as NXTPAPER moves from LCD-based panels to AMOLED to address brightness, outdoor visibility, and color limitations.
TCL has been refining NXTPAPER as an alternative to e-ink and traditional LCD tablets, and the company announced at Mobile World Congress preparations to develop an AMOLED version that it demoed alongside other devices earlier in the year.
Engineers reworked the display architecture to combine NXTPAPER’s anti-glare, eye-comfort features with what TCL describes as flagship AMOLED performance. On the showfloor at CES 2026, TCL demonstrated prototype devices that highlighted the new panel’s brightness and anti-glare finish, which the company said felt more premium than third-party anti-glare films. TCL did not name a shipping device at the announcement, but it included technical targets that mark a substantial jump from current NXTPAPER hardware.
TCL says the incoming AMOLED NXTPAPER will reach 3,200 nits of brightness, compared with the NXTPAPER 70 Pro’s peak of about 900 nits.
The company also lists 120Hz refresh rates, full 100 percent color gamut coverage, and blue-light reduction down to 2.9 percent, a figure TCL says is 15 percent lower than existing NXTPAPER displays.
Those specs, if realized, would change how the screens perform outdoors and for media consumption, while keeping the low-glare positioning that distinguishes NXTPAPER from conventional OLED phones.
The business stakes are straightforward, TCL is betting it can protect the NXTPAPER brand while moving upmarket, and consumers could gain a middle ground between e-ink legibility and AMOLED vibrancy.
TCL says it plans to launch an AMOLED NXTPAPER smartphone before the end of the year. Mobile World Congress runs March 2 to March 5, 2026, where the company is publicly advancing the technology and where further product details are likely to appear.
