TCL’s 8-inch Nxtpaper tablet could lure you away from the color Kindle

The Tab 8 features an 8.7-inch Nxtpaper screen. | Image: TCL

TCL has enactment its Nxtpaper show technology, designed to beryllium casual connected the eyes similar E Ink’s e-paper screens, successful a slew of devices ranging from hefty 14-inch tablets to smartphones for kids. The caller Tab 8 is the latest summation to TCL’s Nxtpaper lineup and with an 8.7-inch surface it sits determination in-between the company’s existing size offerings similar the 6.8-inch 60 XE and the Nxtpaper 14. That besides puts the Tab 8 successful a saccharine spot that could marque it a tempting alternate to colour surface e-readers similar the Kindle Colorsoft that don’t travel with the flexibility of Android.

The TCL Tab 8 Nxtpaper 5G tablet is presently disposable exclusively done Verizon for $199.99, but the institution says it’s besides coming soon to Total Wireless stores. That’s cheaper than immoderate of TCL’s Nxtpaper smartphones and the $280 Kindle Colorsoft whose E Ink surface tin lone show conscionable implicit 4,000 colors. The Tab 8 uses an upgraded LCD sheet truthful colour reproduction volition beryllium overmuch better, and due to the fact that it runs Android 15, it has entree to the Kindle app and Amazon’s expansive ebook store.

Nxtpaper isn’t a reflective show exertion similar E Ink which relies connected small drops of ink moving around, but it does diagnostic respective upgrades implicit modular LCD panels. The Tab 8’s solid surface is etched with a good signifier giving it a matte decorativeness that reduces glare and reflections, and TCL’s latest version, Nxtpaper 4.0, is besides designed to minimize the softening effect often seen connected matte displays.

TCL’s show exertion is besides designed to trim bluish airy and surface flickering erstwhile the screen’s brightness is reduced, and similar the company’s 60 XE smartphone, the Tab 8 tin toggle betwixt afloat color, a monochromatic achromatic and achromatic ink mode, and a speechmaking mode with warmer tones.

The Tab 8 is powered by an unspecified “octa-core processor” with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of retention that tin beryllium expanded to up to 2GB with a microSD representation card. It’s got 5G connectivity, an 8MP rear and 5MP beforehand camera, stereo speakers, and a 6,000mAh artillery that TCL says is ample capable for up to 16 hours of usage. That’s obscurity adjacent the up to 8 weeks that Amazon says the Kindle Colorsoft tin beryllium utilized betwixt charges, but TCL’s Tab 8 isn’t conscionable for speechmaking books. You tin besides ticker videos, play games, and usage immoderate productivity bundle you privation to install.