‘max Ink Mode’ Makes Tcl’s Screens Even Inkier

Look, I haven’t picked up nan TCL 60 XE, but I tin already show you nan punishment of its champion feature: Max Ink Mode. The 60 XE is nan latest of TCL’s phones to usage its Nxtpaper show technology, aimed to spell easy connected nan eyes pinch reduced glare and an E Ink-like monochrome mode.

The telephone has a full-color 6.8-inch show by default, but if you flip a slider connected nan broadside of nan device, you participate Max Ink Mode. In summation to being a benignant of e-reader mode, it tin too soundlessness notifications truthful you tin get a mini bid and quiet while you do immoderate reading. How lovely! TCL introduced this “Nxtpaper key” connected immoderate phones past year, but they ne'er made it to nan US. It’s our move now, because nan 60 XE is simply a North American exclusive.

The TCL 60 XE too features a 50-megapixel rear camera and a 32-megapixel selfie camera and comes pinch a diligent 256GB of retention and 8GB of RAM. It’ll commencement astatine $199, going connected discarded first successful Canada successful May 2025, pinch US readiness later successful nan year.

TCL has a mates of different non-TV things to show disconnected astatine CES 2025: a Nxtpaper 11 Plus tablet pinch nan company’s next-gen Nxtpaper 4.0 technology, which is expected to relationship amended clarity and sharpness. The Nxtpaper 11 Plus emphasizes oculus comfortableness pinch viewing modes designed to easiness strain, offering an 11.5-inch 2.2K show pinch a 120Hz refresh rate. The institution isn’t announcing its pricing aliases readiness yet.

There’s too a caller projector — nan Playcube, which uses a “modular conception integrating aesthetics and functionality,” according to a spot release. No worth aliases readiness connected that one, either.