CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. The $180 TCL 40 X 5G would be one of my favorite budget ...

TCL announced a slate of new phones at CES 2024 last month, but there wasn’t a lot of information about them. Thankfully, that’s just changed. TCL is bringing its NxtPaper technology to the smartphone ...

TCL aims to deliver a feature-packed smartphone for an affordable price tag with the 40 XE 5G, and for the most part, they’ve knocked it out of the park. The phone features a few improvements over the ...

If you think you need to pay hundreds of dollars for a decent smartphone, you’re in for a very pleasant surprise. The TCL 40 XE 5G has a bright 6.56-inch HD display, it’s powerful enough to handle ...

TCL is using CES to give the first official glimpse of two new phones it plans to launch later in 2025. The TCL K32 (shown on right) will be TCL's first 5G phone "under $100". It will launch ...

TCL has been showing off prototype phones with its "NXTPAPER" matte-display technology for a while now, but now one is actually going on sale in the US. The TCL 50 XE 5G comes in two flavors: with or ...

TCL has done the unthinkable at CES 2024. It has announced seven new smartphones to kick off the new year. The TCL 50 Series is the company’s fifth generation of smartphones and includes everything ...

At IFA 2024, TCL unveiled the TCL 50 Pro NXTPAPER 5G and its non-Pro sibling. Both phones have a button that can hot-swap the device into a low-power digital detox mode called Max Ink Mode. The TCL 50 ...

TCL showed off its 50 series at the 2024 MWC event initially, with the official release of the TCL 50 series following in April 2024. TCL 50 series consists of the TCL 50 5G, TCL 50 SE, TCL 505, and ...

TCL's new phones want to make staring at your phone all day feel less burdensome on your eyes. The TCL 50 XL Nxtpaper 5G and 50 XE Nxtpaper 5G, announced Monday at CES 2024, both have a matte screen ...

For the money, the TCL 40 X 5G offers pretty good specs, including some things you won't find on a lot of modern phones. I’m one of PCMag’s mobile writers. That means I check out phones, hotspots, and ...

TCL has announced a slew of new phones and a tablet at the 2025 Mobile World Congress (MWC) tech convention in Barcelona, Spain. While the devices won't exactly set the world on fire, a few models do ...