TCL NXTPAPER 11 initial review: Budget tablet with a E Ink aspirations
TCL might be a name you more readily associate with affordable TVs, but the company has a whole range of other tech to shout about, from soundbars and headphones to robot vaccums and mobile devices.
On the latter, it recently announced a couple of budget tablets and two bargain smartphones to add it its line up.
Of the new trio, all of which come in under €300, the TCL NXTPAPER 11 piqued our interest, with TCL's next-gen NXTPAPER 2.0 technology built into it — a paper-like laminated display that gives the impression of E Ink but with the benefits of a colour display.
If you're in the market for a budget Android tablet, is this quirky 11-inch slate worth a look? We got our hands on it to get a closer look.
The TCL NXTPAPER 11 is a budget tablet that's doing its bit to stand out in what can be a marketplace of lookalikes. You do lose out on a better chipset that you'll see at higher price points, and nice-to-haves like wireless charging, but it's an attractive-looking tablet with a pretty intriguing USP.
For a tablet costing €249, the TCL NXTPAPER 11 does its bit to look pretty premium. Its casing is made from a lightweight aluminium, available in a choice of Dark Grey and Digital Lavender (more like a silver), and it has a slim, flat-edged design, a bit like we've seen from Apple in recent iPad iterations.
It's not quite as thin as an iPad though, measuring in at 6.9mm thick in comparison with the iPad Pro 11 at 5.9mm. Whether you'll be able to notice this in use — particularly when they weigh about the same (with TCL's 462g to the iPad Pro 11's 466g) — we'll have to wait and see. We'd say the iPad still takes it on premium feel though, but then the price tag is much higher.
The NXTPAPER 11 keeps branding to a minimum.
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