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TCL Note A1 Nxtpaper is a notes-first device.
The split view for recording, transcription, and note-taking is super handy.
The matte display looks great, but the tablet skips Nxtpaper's signature mode switcher.
I spent time at TCL's suite at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to get some hands-on time with TCL's Note A1 Nxtpaper, and it's obvious that TCL did not try to build a general-purpose tablet. Instead, it's a modern notebook, similar to what ReMarkable Paper Pro or Amazon's Kindle Scribe Papersoft offer, with a highly custom build of Android underneath.
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