TCL’s NxTPaper tablet screen is like an affordable version of the new iPad Pro’s nanotexture display

Apple’s new Ultra Retina XDR, which it debuted its new 2024 iPad Pros is not the only innovative tablet display technology doing the rounds right now.

TCL, a company best known for delivering ever-larger and more powerful yet cheaper TVs, also makes things like phones, and yes, tablets.

When it launched the 14-inch TCL NxTPaper 14 Pro tablet at the CES 2024 show, I dismissed it and its claims of an E Ink-like display (the display tech showed up a few years earlier, but products arrived slowly). From the pictures I saw, it looked like just another maybe too-large tablet with a vibrant color screen.

Now, though, I’ve seen it in person. It is not actually E Ink – the display tech used in e-readers like the best Amazon Kindles – but like Apple’s 'tandem OLED' Ultra Retina XDR display it uses layering technology to achieve a more eye-pleasing ...