TCL recently announced a design update for its smart glasses prototype, making it more similar to regular sunglasses. The company also showcased a new concept phone featuring a waterfall screen. Furthermore, TCL has introduced a reflective screen technology called NXTPAPER, which replaces traditional LED backlight modules with a reflective design. This technology reduces flicker and blue light levels, ultimately protecting the eyes.
In the newly proposed Project Archery 3.0 design, TCL has made the overall design more lightweight. Although there is still a certain thickness of the lens module, the overall design is already quite close to that of ordinary sunglasses. The OLED display screen is also hidden behind the lens, allowing people wearing glasses to see it directly.
However, this design is still in the prototype stage and has not yet entered the mass production plan. However, TCL emphasizes that in the future, all types of users will be able to easily use this glasses design, and can even be worn smoothly when wearing glasses or contact lenses.
The concept phone showcased simultaneously this time uses a waterfall screen with highly curved edges as its basis, foreshadowing its future application in mass-produced phone designs. As for the previously announced foldable screen phone and curled phone design, these are not yet ready for actual application.
In addition, TCL has proposed a reflective screen technology called NXTPAPER, which emphasizes its ability to maintain screen brightness through light reflection, reduce screen flicker, and reduce the proportion of blue light. It also emphasizes that it is approximately 36% thinner than ordinary LCD screens, saves 65% of power, and has a 25% improvement in contrast performance compared to E Ink electronic paper screens.
According to TCL, NXTPAPER will be used in tablet devices and e-book readers, and can play video content with a higher frame rate and color performance than e-paper. However, no specific application products have yet appeared, and it is also unclear whether the brightness performance displayed through refraction as TCL claims is sufficient.
At this exhibition, TCL also announced the launch of two affordable tablet devices, including the 10.36-inch TCL 10 TABMAX tablet with NXTVISION image quality enhancement technology, and the 8-inch TCL 10 TABMID tablet, which are expected to be launched in the European market in the fourth quarter of this year.
The TCL 10 TABMAX uses a MediaTek Helio P22T (MT8768T) processor, 4GB of memory, 64GB of storage, and an 8000mAh battery. It also features an 800-megapixel video camera and a 1300-megapixel main camera. It comes in Wi-Fi and 4G LTE versions, with a suggested retail price of $249 and €299, respectively. Optional accessories include a keyboard case, a raindrop delay stylus, and more.
As for the TCL 10 TABMID, it uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 processor, and is also equipped with 4GB of memory and 64GB of storage capacity. The battery capacity is reduced to 5500mAh, and the camera specifications use a 500-megapixel video lens and an 800-megapixel main camera lens respectively. The suggested retail price is 229 euros.
