TCL’s paperlike OLED phone made me more excited for the iPhone Duo

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="TCL’s P80 Ultra is its first Nxtpaper phone with an OLED screen. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge" data-portal-copyright="Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/tcl-p80-ultra-review-09.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> TCL’s P80 Ultra is its first Nxtpaper phone with an OLED screen. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">I've spent most of the last couple weeks using an otherwise unexceptional midrange Android phone with one amazing feature: a matte OLED display. That screen is by far the best thing about the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/988059/tcls-new-nxtpaper-phone-offers-both-e-reader-and-oled">TCL P80 Ultra</a>, and weirdly, it's made me more excited for the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/991203/iphone-duo-foldable-news-specs-price-release-date">iPhone Duo</a> and its matte inner display.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/29/23849169/tcl-40-nxtpaper-5g-screen-specs-price-ifa">2023's TCL Nxtpaper 40</a> first brought matte displays to the company's phones, after they <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/11/22219269/tcl-nxtpaper-tablet-color-display-ereader">appeared on tablets in 2021</a>. Nxtpaper is more than a simple matte finish on a panel: it also includes a paperlike feel and low-power, monochrome modes that create a reasonable facsimile of an E Ink screen. But the matte effect has always been the biggest draw for me …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1004079/tcl-p80-ultra-nxtpaper-matte-display-iphone-duo">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>