TCL's newest E Ink tablet beats the Kindle and Remarkable with this display tech

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The tablet is designed for the aforesaid circumstantial demographic: moving professionals, students, and creatives who privation a robust integer insubstantial instrumentality with out-of-the-box bundle integrations and a tendency to beryllium escaped from the inherent distractions recovered successful Windows oregon Android OS.

Office-ready productivity features

The Note A1 seeks to differentiate itself, however, with a big of office-ready productivity features, including AI gathering transcriptions, real-time translations, and one-tap AI summaries. It besides features wireless surface casting, allowing you to easy stock what's connected the show successful impromptu presentations.

Additionally, TCL included seamless record sharing via Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive, arsenic agelong arsenic devices are connected to the aforesaid Wi-Fi network. This single-click record sharing opens up much applicable usage cases for sharing what's connected the instrumentality with collaborators.

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We tested TCL's Nxtpaper 11 Plus, wherever we archetypal saw this hybrid show experimentation. On that device, you power from regular tablet mode to e-reader mode with the propulsion of a button. Here, the TCL Note A1 features Nxtpaper exertion but doesn't swap backmost and forth, alternatively utilizing the built-in operation show and staying astatine 120Hz by default.

Notebook-style plan

Physically, TCL's Note A1 Nxtpaper features the modular notebook-style design, with a heavy left-side bezel for gripping the 11.5-inch display, framed successful achromatic with a magnetic portion for storing the stylus connected the close side. It besides features an 8,000mAh artillery -- much than the competitors -- suggesting the colour show mightiness beryllium a small much powerfulness hungry.

Pricing and availability

The Note A1 Nxtpaper is disposable for pre-order aboriginal entree connected Kickstarter, with an expected motorboat day astatine the extremity of February 2026. TCL has acceptable the expected retail terms astatine $549, making it cheaper than some of the antecedently mentioned integer insubstantial tablets and little priced than the Boox Note Max, which runs connected Android 13.