Overview
- TCL launched the P80 family at IFA in Berlin on Thursday, and is shipping the phones in Europe now with the P80 Ultra starting at €549 while Latin America is slated for October and a U.S. release is undated.
- The P80 Ultra uses a 6.83‑inch 1.5K NxtPaper AMOLED with 120Hz, 100% DCI‑P3 and up to 3,200 nits, powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 7400 Elite and a 5,800mAh battery.
- A physical NxtPaper Key switches the display into Max Ink Mode, which turns the UI monochrome, silences most notifications, puts background apps to sleep, and is claimed to extend active reading time up to seven days.
- TCL bundles reading services and on‑device AI that can convert e‑books into narrated audio or podcast‑style playback and ships the phones with hundreds of preloaded books.
- TCL also showed Tab A1 tablets with NxtPaper LCD panels and published OS update promises vary across outlets, creating uncertainty about how many years of Android upgrades each P80 model will receive.